Who are you?

I could hardly believe my eyes when I came down to the wharf this morning.
A new piece! Right next to mine!
And with a message...that is meant for me?!?

Are you asking me?

Well, the devil is in the detail

To be continued...

105 hearts for Valentine's Day

Tonight 14 people met on Parnell Rise with their bags full of yarn.

Why? To heart a fence for Valentine’s Day.

We giggled and laughed. We dropped our wool on the wrong side of the fence
and some of us got very tangled up! And we all had so much fun!

The amount of hearts exceeded my expectations.

We created 105 woolly, fluffy hearts!

And some pics in day light

More pics on Outdoor knit’s blog and Flickr

Thanks everyone!
I really enjoyed it.

The knits are public

(Photo: The Aucklander)

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The Aucklander

Nits...? No, knits!

I don’t think this is news to you, and
I can’t deny it.

Look, there they are!
The wee little knits!

(Ok, ok ok... They are seed beads, but you get the idea...)

Stitching Coromandel

I have been away on holiday – four lovely days in beautiful Coromandel.

And of course I did some tagging!

I had knitted a piece for Coromandel Town and it was made
to sit on a park bench. We strolled around the main street and there it was
- the perfect bench!

The day after we stayed in Whitianga
and we left some love behind.

Flower power

Hehe, it didn’t take long to get mum involved!

I showed her the other day how to make flowers and when I came home from work,
she had made heaps. And the day after she knitted some woolly grass and
attached the flowers to it. Last night she sneaked out and put up her first piece.

Welcome to the club, Knitty Sr!

Coffee lover

My all time favourite barista and coffee roaster, Alessandro from Sicily,

has opened up a new coffee shop here in Devonport. He makes the most amazing coffee
and he’s a really cool guy, so I thought I’d show him my appreciation.

Big thank you to Knitty Sr who’s here for a visit. We went out last night
to put this piece up but my memory had played tricks on me and it was too narrow...
Knitty Sr has spent the day knitting an extra strip and sewn it on. Tonight we went
for a walk, my committed torch holder came along as usual, and now the piece is
there, outside Alessandro’s hole-in-the-wall coffee shop, Santini.

The Next Big Thing

I received an email from Next magazine a couple of weeks ago.
They asked if they could interview me about knitted graffiti. Sure thing!

I thought it would be a little snippet but it turned out to be a full page article!
Not only about me of course, but... Well, you can read it here:

The Next Big Thing

Call mum

Don’t forget

Knitters Unite for Climate Change

A friend sent me a message about
Oxfam organising a protest
around Climate Change.

An action will take place at Aotea Square this Saturday (12 December).
They are trying to get 800 metres of knitting and will make a trail from
Aotea Square to Britomart. Unfortunately I have other commitments
on Saturday so I can’t join in, but at least I can send a piece.

So last Friday I caught up with 2 friends over a bottle of wine.
A and I brought our needles and A had nicked some yarn from her
daughter’s craft box! Look at her colourful piece!

I used my fluffy yarns. Tonight I was going to finish my piece
and my lovely 8-year old daughter wanted to join in. We sew on some
beautiful silk and she wrote some messages on them.

Switch off lights

Turn off the TV

Recycle

Don’t waste water