I
staked out my corner on Wednesday morning and
planned the yarn attack all day Wednesday.
Wednesday
evening I returned to measure the
location of the attackfence.
Measure is probably too technical a term: I put my hand horizontally next to the
fence and took a photo, and stood next to the fence, making a note of where the
top of the fence reached in relation to my body. When I got home I measured
those distances et voila: I needed nine 10cm x 10cm squares. (Might I
just add that I did the measuring when everyone from the 18:06 from Waterloo had
left the station area so as to not draw too much attention. Yes, that's right.
I didn't want to draw attention to the 2 minutes of measuring ...... for a
yarnbomb... using nine crochet squares... to be attached in daylight... on a
Saturday... on a busy street corner. Sometimes even I have to shake my
head.)
The
look I was going for with this yarnbomb, was a zig zag design of floating
brightly coloured squares, giving a stained glass window effect to the metal
fence. I think I achieved this. Sort of.
As
I wanted the squares to appear to be floating, I didn't use yarn to sew them to
the railings, but in stead used cable ties. It worked brilliantly! As a bonus
the squares won't slide down the metal when they get wet, so my squares will
stay put.
The
pattern is "Circle in a Square" from Jan Eaton's 200 Crochet Blocks, but only
did rounds 1 to 5. All the squares are done in Stylecraft Special DK with a 4mm
crochet hook.
My
willing accomplicelovely friend,
Liezel,
joined me on Saturday to attach the nine squares and to
get evidencetake photos of the guerilla crochet. It was so much fun! And such an adrenaline
rush! Carrying cable ties and side cutters in your handbag tend to do that.
We
weren't doing anything illegal and we did it in the light of day, but it still
felt sneaky and rebellious (says she who's biggest act of rebellion to date was
wearing a rub-on tattoo on holiday last year.)
I
really hope people will enjoy the nine little pops of colour on their way to and
from
Thames Ditton station. If it makes just one person smile, that
will make me smile.
