Ever wanted to learn to crochet amigurumi (3D crochet) so you can cover your streets with wolly goodness?
Or perhaps you want to keep those little critters for yourself?
Now’s the time! Come along to Craft Guerilla and I’ll teach you all the basics so that you can be wielding a hook in no time.
All materials you need to make a spring creature are provided and there’s even tea and cake included free!
Included in the price is also a 3D crochet kit with absolutely everything you need to make a flower hairgrip and a little critter when you get home and tonnes of colour photos and step by step instructions so you can remember what you learn in the class.
To book your place, simply go to the Craft Guerilla shopping page, scroll down to the bottom and add the workshop to your cart.
It’s been far too long between yarnstorms this past year. I’m really aiming to change that in the coming year and so thought I’d start off the spring with a solo yarnstorm in my home town of Bushey in Hertfordshire.
I’ve had the idea for a long time. I wanted the piece to be interactive with the people who found it. By that I mean that each person could keep a little of what they saw.
And so, Pick Your Own was born. 16 flower brooches cover the knitted background. The piece is in the middle of what is known as Bushey Village, very near to my fantastic Local Yarn Store (Mavis) and a good spot for people to stop and wander what’d happened in Bushey.
And wander they did!…
'If I hide behind her I won't get accused of taking a break'
First a lady exclaimed (while on the phone) ‘Oh that’s so pretty’ Then, when the sewing was complete, 2 traffic wardens stopped to admire the handiwork. (Surprisingly friendly for traffic wardens – I thought they all had a hugely thick layer of skin and grew horns if you looked at them? No?)…
'I wanna be a yarnstormer when I grow up Mum'
Then the residents of Bushey just couldnt stop themselves from taking a peak.
I hope that it will brighten up Bushey and make my little town smile at the sight of something different in their high street.
Thanks for making me feel so welcome Bushey this last year, and keep your eyes pealed, I may just leave another little present in the future!
I’m very excited to announce that all our plans are hatching and Deadly Knitshade and I, together with Wightaway will be hosting our very first:
It will be held in the beautiful location of Ventnor on the Isle of Wight over the weekend of Friday 19th to Sunday 21st October 2012.
You will learn everything you need to know about how to yarnstorm, with all your materials, meals and accomodation included.
So, what are you waiting for recruits? Head on over to Knit The City or Wightaway for more info and to book.
You can pay in installments too.. More info of which can be found on the booking page. It’s set to a wooly weekend of wonderous mayhem. I’m very excited to be a part of it and can’t wait to cover The Isle of Wight in yarny goodness!
See you at boot camp!
Please note: due to unforeseen issues involving radioactive sheep and an incident with a swarm of yarn zombies this boot camp has been moved to October.
Knit The city is excited to announce our first ever Graffiti Knitting Bootcamp.
So, do you think you have what it takes to be the next big thing to come out of the yarnstorm world?
Come and join myself and Deadly Knitshade somewhere in the UK in March and we’ll tell you all our secrets, turn you into a secret yarnstormer and set you loose on the city!
(And, if you’re lucky, we may let you leave without erasing your memory at the end of it – how nice of us is that?!)
Watch this space for more news and details on how to get involved.
So, we gathered them up and kept them warm for a few weeks while we pondered over where to finally set them free into the wild.
Then, I heard about Britain in a day, a project which encouraged everyone to pick up a camera and film their day on Saturday 12th November 2011. It was then asked that everyone send in the footage to be edited and directed by Ridley Scott to be made into a feature length film.
Being a fan of Life in a day, I really wanted to take part in this amazing project. And, so, our yarnstorm day was set. But, the place was a little less obvious. We haven’t left anything in a suburb of London collectively and certainly not in South East London. Deadly has her studio there, so it seemed right that we should leave a little wooly gift to the people of Deptford.
The fabulous Altartist filmed our progress so we didn’t have to think about camera technicalities (thank goodness) and we headed off into deepest darkest Deptford town. The market there is amazing – you can literally get thousands of different things, it was like a jumble sale on a grand scale, I totally recommend it!
Near to the market there is a huge wall, recently covered in murals for the Deptford X. The colours were perfect for the paint colour tubes I’d made, so our place was found…
It was a very interesting experience – half way through a passer by tried to unravel one of Deadly’s pieces to get the wire inside and the whole time there was a guy in the background who sounded exactly like Rimmer from Red Dwarf!
Deadly Knitshade’s ode to traditional graffiti
…Anyway, I hope that Deptford like our wooly art and that they lasted more than 5 minutes before being unravelled to use the materials!
Its been a very exciting year for us Knit The City girls. Not least of this excitement is our fantastic new book that Deadly Knitshade herself has written. Ever wondered why we do what we do, where we’ve done what we’ve done or what it is we’ve made? It’s all been packed into a beautiful coffee table hard back book. Bursting with stunning photos of our wooly crimes and with all the inside info on all of the yarn corps. To see what all the fuss is about for yourself, head on over to amazon, where you can get your mitts on your very own copy.
So, to celebrate our very own book’s arrival, we had a party, complete with a new yarnstorm in the heart of soho at Gosh Comics.
I tried to go alone, but alas those pesky crocheted characters simply follow me where ever I go. This time it was the turn of my three favourite superheroes; Batman, Spiderman and Superman. Not content to stay at home and wander around the house searching for villains to teach a lesson to, they crept into my bag and jumped on the train with me to Gosh. It could only end in disaster… or could it?
Spiderman: “Hang on a minute… where are we? I don’t remember this part of town.”
“Holy haberdashery batman, where are we?”
“I know the Joker is here somewhere…”
“Well he’s evaded us this time, but we seemed to have stumbled upon mountains of awesome books instead”
Spiderman: ” and if I could just get to the top of this mountain I may get a better vantage point”
Meanwhile the Knit The City team went in search of cake and found these awesome examples complete with phone box cosies and plarchie the squid!
..Back in the super hero world…
Superman had found a perfect view point from above the till.
Spiderman had scaled a shelf in search of evil villains
“I know I’ll find them from this height”
…and Batman had settled on top of a picture, desparate to see himself in print on the next shelf.
Will our heroes find any villains? Will they find their way back to The Fastener’s house? And will Spiderman ever manage to get on top of that huge pile of books? ‘ Tune in next week, same bat time, same bat channel’
If you can’t wait until next time, check out this awesome video that our fab friends at Alt Artist made of the evening:
About this time last year, I signed up to participate in a really exciting project based in the USA. It involved being sent a moleskin sketchbook and using any medium and any technique to fill it. The deadline was January 2011 after which it would fly around 10 different states, stopping at each to let anyone who wanted to to take it out of its shelf and browse its pages. It’s such a fantastic idea and I was very excited to be involved. You can read all about it on my earlier post here. The end of the tour culminated in all the books being catalogued and held in perminant residence at the Brooklyn Art Library in New York. And now, the books are in digitised format. Its so amazing that with the help of the internet you can now view a selection of the books from the comfort of your comfy sofa, no matter where in the world you are.
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