newcastle yarn bombing

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

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

trevor dickinson mural

on the way to Newcastle Beach from the city is a little tunnel taking pedestrians under the road to pop out right at the beachside...
there has been a mural on either side of this tunnel for years; but the predominate colour seemed to be black, making it dark inside...

in steps trevor dickinson with his awesome drawing and painting skills, and his humour.
it is now light, bright and exciting in this tunnel.





the ufo and superman silhouettes are a nice small touch..
you have to be really looking to notice them, they are very small details (to give an idea of scale: the ufo is that small smudge to the right above the 'showering' person)

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.

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.

this knitting was sewn on to the bike parking bollard outside estabar (cafe) a few months back, the wool colours are so bright and lovely here, and wet from a big late winter down pour.

these statues of sydney have been 'dressed' by a group of artist for sydney event art & about 2010

see the blog for more amazing images of the sydney statues: project!