Knitting to Heal - Yarn Bombing - My Tree

So as I expressed in my last post, I spend the summer working in a sweater for "My Tree"... My tree was sponsored by my loved Yarn Shop, and since I spend so much time there learning and teaching and building stories and friendships, I thought the least I could do was to make the sweater that would represent the shop's sponsorship.

It all started with a bunch of blue yarn and experimenting with free form and I had share it with you here and here. I then added all kind of fun "corals", sea creatures, glow in the dark beads and even a felted Nemo (it is super fun to see little kids looking all the way around to find Nemo)... I had a couple of girls (age 13 and 16) help me with the fishes and sea creatures. And a dear friend made the A.M.A.Z.I.N.G Sunset/Sunrise!!!!!! it's the perfect complement for my sea bed piece. We are so happy inhow it came out.

Finally, a couple of weeks ago, on Oct 4th, we installed my tree... I'll leave you with a bunch of pretty photos.
I'm so proud!

 

 

 

 

See you soon,
S.

Crocheted sea growing...

I've been working and working on it and it had grow a lot... I'm happy with it. I won't be able to show it to you today, because I left it at the shop and I don't have a photo of it.
It's starting to be too big for me to carry back and forth from home to the shop and viceversa... and it's not that it is THAT big, but that I'm using several balls of yarns of all sizes and textures and that takes up a lot of space, and it's more difficult to carry.

Today I'll go out to measure it to the tree, and then I'll be ready to move into the beach and sunset... I imagine something like this... (Don't mind my little sketch please.... I made it in 5 minutes in paint... and I don't have a very good mouse or any painting skills or tools)

All of it is free form as I showed you the other day... and it's all formed out of different yarns in sea-like colors (blues-greens and ocasional purple and so) in lots of different textures and stitches.

I'm not sure how the beach will be, still thinking in that... but the sunset I think it'll be all horizontal lines, to give it a different look from the crazy sea...

Once I have the base, I'll add the fun details on top!
I'll show you later!!


Oh!! I'm super super happy, excited!!!!!!!!! I found out yesterday that I'm having visits tomorrow!!!! My dearest uncle and friends are coming for a week!!!!
I might not post a lot!

See you soon!
S.

New Project.... Freeform crochet sea

I don't know if I've talk about this before, but there is an ongoing project in my town to raise money for the Middle Way House...
Since our last yarnbombing infront of the shop, there was a great response from the people and Middle Way House came up with this idea and asked Yarns Unlimited to partnered with them to lead  the project of yarnbomb all the trees in the downtown square.
The idea is to get businesses to sponsor a tree, and volunteer knitters and crocheters that would make sweaters for the trees.
The theme is free and each volunteer is welcome to do as many squares as they can, in any stitch, technique, yarn and color as they want. Then, they'll be all put together in bigger pieces for easy assambling on the trees. The sponsors will have their name in the tree.
We are thinking about puting them up on the Gallery Walk on October. Gallery Walk is a Friday night in which the galleries stayed open later and offer specials and snacks for people to visit and enjoy the exhibits. The Knitting to Heal project, will be like a life performance during that day when we'll be dressing up the trees. I think the sweaters will be up until March or April 2013.

I loved being part of the last yarnbombing and see my stitches in a tree for a while... But this time I thought I would do somehitng bigger, so I'm attempting to do the sweater for a whole tree by myself.
My tree will be sponsored by the yarn shop, and I decided to go with a maritime, sea, organic, life project theme...
Here's what I had after the first day:::

And after:::

I'm loving the greatness of freeform crochet... it's really fun and the freedom of doing whatever is great! although some time you have to think about what the next step will be.

I'll keep you posted with the progress...

See you soon!
S.