Well, we did it! 50 knitters and crocheters (including children from the local school, who made the lovely sign), a huge pile of yarn, donated by The Knitter, Simply Knitting, and very generous local people. And hours and hours of work.
This is what you get when you put it all together. Totterdown’s Woolly Wonderland is still up in Arnos Vale cemetery, and there are no plans to take the work down. Instead, the cemetery volunteers will remove pieces when they start to look a bit tired. As people seem to have been adding to the original pieces which were put up, I suspect there will always be a few trees with woolly decorations in this much beloved cemetery.
Anyway, enough words. Just take a look…
We spent the actual weekend of the Front Room arts trail hosting a tea, cake and pom pom making party at Hannah’s house, and raised £30 for Refuge.
What we didn’t really foresee, was how much the kids would love it all…
And did I mention? The sun shone ALL weekend!
There are too many people who contributed to thank individually, but rest assured, every scrap of work was appreciated and used.
We’ve been asked what’s happening ‘next year’ and the honest answer is, it’s been so much work, we haven’t thought that far ahead. Ideas on a postcard perhaps?
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Tags: art, crochet, graffiti, knitting, stashbusting, street art, wool, yarn
My name is Rosee and I love to make things. I design and tech edit knitting patterns, teach crafts and create tutorials for knitting and sewing magazines. I'm also interested in minimalism. For tuition please email me at rosee.woodland@gmail.com for a chat. For anything related to The Knitter, please email rosee.woodland@futurenet.com.
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