newcastle yarn bombing

all these crochet posts are new yarn bombs on watt and king streets.

new crochet hand grips

these are my new bicycle handlebar grips.

the bike frame is yellow and i never liked the standard black hand grips...

so first i took a stanley knife to them to cut away the upright round rubber section...

and then i tried out some crochet.

new look handgrips

 

pulling the wool

 

it has been over nine months since i last posted here!! many reasons. there have been a few things over that time that have been waiting to be posted...this article for instance...about yarn bombing in Newcastle! and then this new crochet piece on a sign pole outside the Royal Exchange

door rock
made with:
one pacific ocean rock
two cotton crocheted doilies.

this is a new idea for a door-stop.
not too heavy to move around, yet enough weight to hold a standard door open.
the crochet protects parquet flooring and other smooth flooring materials from being scratched by the rock.

this cafe, good brother, opened quite recently.
revitalising a very dead part of king street...then a couple of weeks later this new crochet yarn bombing made its way on to the street sign post.
it's the small things that make the city feel lived in again.

broken in three

broken!

felicity gleeson made this gorgeous bangle.
it is parts of an old doily embedded in resin, which is perfectly clear and magnifies the textures colour and details of the yarn.



somehow i don't think gluing is going to do any favours for this beautiful piece.

if you are reading this miss felicity.... i need to visit any stocks you may have!!

looks better with the crochet finished all the way to the ground.
this resurrected crochet lasted at least for the first evening of the Red Lantern Markets...it was no where to be found this time; and there are too many bins to go searching in.

bollard crochet

it lasted in place for maybe 10 mins? 1 hr? 10hrs?
well who knows.
but twelve hrs later it was definitely off.

riding for all occasions...
why do most of us in australia think we have to wear ugly 'pratical' footware to ride our bikes!

i've just been looking at the cycle chic blog.
these are some of the images i found there!



if only we in australia could enjoy the freedom to ride without a helmet...




now i really do need to learn how to crochet.
my yellow bike is nolonger complete with out one of these skirtguards
hand made in the netherlands by simeli