Urban Knitting: Taking It To The Street

1. SenorMysterioso
   November 27th, 2008 at 6:28 am

   Ive hit parking meters, handrails, street signs, bike racks and utility poles but nothing so ambitious as an entire tree or a gas station. Impressive.

2. Nat
   November 27th, 2008 at 6:47 am

   Too.. much... crochet exposure.. on the internet....
   It was cool the first 3 times I saw it.
   Now, unless it's the Statue of Liberty, I'm really not gonna be anywhere near excited.

3. ted
   November 27th, 2008 at 7:21 am

   Deja vu.
   And not THAT long ago, either.

4. Edward
   November 27th, 2008 at 10:50 am

   In her most productive years, my mother would make a pair of mittens in an evening. A sweater would take a week. Covering one of our couches in needlepoint took her (and my brother) a whole month. Pity they chose such a putrid color of green.

   I can totally see someone like her helping to make a gas station cozy.

5. Rocky Rook
   November 27th, 2008 at 1:52 pm

   Crochet is another unclassified psychologiacal ailment.

6. Cori
   November 28th, 2008 at 2:14 am

   Hasn't that been posted here before?

7. TwoDragons
   November 28th, 2008 at 10:36 am

   Rocky Rook: At least I make something pretty and functional with my "unclassified psychological ailment." As opposed to slinging baseless pseudo-intellectual sarcasm...

   I'm getting kinda tired of all the wasted yarn on these "knit graffiti" projects. It would be better spent on making more useful things, like blankets for keeping the homeless or premature babies warm, or comforting a traumatized child.

   http://www.projectlinus.org/

   --TwoDragons

8. jafabrit
   November 29th, 2008 at 4:03 pm

   I never view reused/recycled materials or art supplies as a waste, nor do I feel there is an obligation to single out which materials I should donate for charity or otherwise. Knit graffiti, such as our knit knot tree, gave much pleasure to our local community and to the local children and that is never a waste.

   As for how I spend my time as an artist, as a community volunteer, I don't really feel it is for others to dictate or determine how and what is useful for me to do.
   You can see some of our public work, free art, knit graffiti etc at: http://www.jafagirlart.com

   ps. I think the gas station is fabu and lovely to see some crochet too.

   all the best
   corrine

9. Jill Harness
   November 30th, 2008 at 1:51 am

   Jafabrit, I think work like this is amazing and thank you for participating in it!

10. jafabrit
    November 30th, 2008 at 12:23 pm

    I think what is somewhat ironic is that we (jafagirl website) have been advertizing Project Linus for about a year on our knit knot tree page.

11. vero4902
    December 5th, 2008 at 9:46 pm

    I love the little sweater on the tree - I think of that as the beginning of the knitting revolution!

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