Saltburn-by-the-Sea Yarn bombing

Hello to you.

Hope you're all well?

I've been away over the last few days, we went up to North Yorkshire to visit my Grandad.

It's a long journey but thankfully my daughter was quiet all the way there and back...

We had to check on her a few times as we thought she was asleep!

 

Now...have you heard of yarn bombing?

Well, I hadn't until recently. Basically in this case it's a bunch of mystery knitters and crocheters who decorate public areas with wonderful work. On a recent Google image search I came across the yarn bombings in Saltburn-by-the-sea and knowing it was 10mins up the coast from my Grandads we all had to have a look-see...

They truly have done an amazing job! In this case they had yarn bombed the pier with a costal theme.

Not only was the work beautiful but it was full of great ideas too!

 

 

I'm definitely going to give this jelly fish a go!

 

 

I loved these donkeys...check out the names!

Surfing in the background.

Got to have fish and chips at the seaside.

 

 

So cute!

 

 I hope you'll agree some truly amazing work. I got a little snap happy but hope you enjoyed browsing through.

Have any of you ever yarn bombed?

I'm very tempted to give it a go.

You can find them on facebook too

Thank you so much for your lovely comments on the last post.

xx

 

 

 

 

 

 



Cute Knitted Bow Clip

 

A quick project I made today was a pretty hair clip for my daughter.

While playing with my glue gun I remembered I had some knitted bows I made ages ago with a fellow crafter. Coming across these I picked a pretty blue one that I thought would complement my daughters eye colour.

 

The bow was knitted in simple knit stitch (garter stitch) every row. When you have a strip tie off use some excess to twist round the middle to create a bow shape.

I added a pretty pearl bead and stuck the bow to the hair grip.

The Kirby grips I bought from eBay cheaply they have a an extra bit on to stick the bow securely. There is no reason why you couldn't use a normal grip or a clip. If you didn't have a glue gun you could thread the clip through the bow back.

I like the vintage look of the bow in the Wedgewood blue.

 My little model very kindly posed for me to show you what it looks like on.

I noticed after taking the picture the bow matches her cardigan perfectly if only I'd meant to do that!

xx