Thursday 8 September 2011

This is not just for the knitters

among you!
http://bloomingmarvellous1.blogspot.com/
It is the link to an extraordinary knitting project travelling around England at the present time. (I do not know whether it is going further afield.) It was sent to me by a keen knitter and is, naturally, of even greater interest to knitters.
The project must have taken an enormous amount of organisation, time, skill and care. I do not know where all the patterns came from - or even whether there were pattens. I note they now want keen knitters to make a wheelbarrow or a lawnmower - presumably to go next to the knitted garden shed. No doubt they will add other flowers and vegetables to those already there. It has taken a lot of yarn - and yes, they did have a grant but it would not have covered their costs by any means.
All those things are quite extraordinary - as is the skill with which much of it is obviously knitted. There is plenty of imagination there - just look at the beehive and the bees or hunt for the ladybirds and the birds.
And there is something even better than all those things. It is a group effort, a community effort. People came together to create something.
And now I will stop burbling on and send you prowling over to look because I believe we need more such projects. Please go and have a look and tell me and others what you think!

5 comments:

Joanna Cannon said...

Cat, what a lovely idea. I live here and hadn't heard of it! I think one of the best things about it is the fact that it gets children involved. I remember learning to knit when I was very small and I also remember how much pleasure I got from creating something tangible. My grandmother and great-grandmother were serious knitters and it always made me feel very grown up and part of the gang to be sitting there with them. Wonderful.

Miriam said...

I agree. It really is blooming marvellous!

widdershins said...

How truly wonderful!!!

Anonymous said...

Oh we could turn the library into a garden perhaps? Lovely! Ros

Anonymous said...

My wife and I have actually seen this. A friend of hers was involved. I thought "Knitting, who wants to see knitting?" when I was dragged along but I have to admit it was "bloomin' marvellous!" Bob C-S