This just in from Auckland, New Zealand:
Correspondent Sue Gardiner writes:
The Auckland based Stitch N Bitch Group Lisa, Jo, Jill, Helen, Halcyon ( and me Sue) who have been meeting now for almost 20 years, made this yarn bombing project in my front garden while I was away on holiday. It was a surprise birthday present for me, discovered when my husband Bill and I returned, jetlagged from Europe. It was a wonderful surprise.
Five of them spent 5 hours working in the garden much to the amusement of neighbours, and passersby, after spending months secretly gathering knitted items from second hand shops all over Auckland. They then stitched the knitting around our trees using bright coloured yarns and good ol blanket stitch and added extra crocheted flowers into the mix- even winding felt flowers around my wisteria vine which they know never flowers when it is meant to. We found more crocheted flowers around other parts of the garden over the next few days and even found photographs of me they had inserted into the knitted segments. The main colour theme was violet- as that is my favourite flower but other colours were added in too. It is a really detailed project that we will try to keep up as long as possible and treasure it for ever. It has endured really heavy rain here over the last week, something that worried the SNB members but I can report it is all intact and looking good.
Someone said to me,’ isnt it hard coming back from a big overseas trip, and coming home to the ‘same old, same old’ routine?’
I replied, NO WAY, this made the return home the most incredible experience ever- it is totally unique in the whole world.
