Destroy my Sweater?

Speaking of public art, Knit graffiti isn't just for the shadowy yarn anarchists of Knitta anymore.  The town of Yellow Springs, Ohio has gone cuckoo for adorning their trees with yarn.   Residents of the town have embraced knit graffiti in a big way, covering the town's  "knitknot" tree in knit panels filled with in-jokes and family artifacts.  Things in Yellow Springs aren't all peaches and cream, though:

The tree is vulnerable to the raised legs of passing pooches. Because of that, the panels of yarn don't extend all the way to ground level.

As the panels spread up the trunk, the knitters had to follow, first standing on a chair, then a three-step ladder, a 6-foot ladder and finally an 8-foot ladder. They finally decided they had gone high enough after someone suggested scaffolding and village officials began to worry about someone falling.

Today it's scaffolding, tomorrow a scissor lift....pretty soon the bulk of the town's budget is going to be sunk into tree cozies.  Garbage pick-up will be abandoned, the streets will crack into rubble and all landscaping will ceased.  The trees will look beautiful, though!  The cozies are set to come down on Arbor Day, but now residents of the town aren't so sure.  The cozies are so well-liked that residents will certainly be fighting city hall to keep them up. 

LINK thanks, Jennifer!

Comments

[Watershed]

Go Yellow Springs!!!!

For those who have not been there, Yellow Springs used to be a mini Boulder. Also the home of Antioch College (Long may it wave).

Check it out if you have a chance. If you are travelling E-W on I-70, take the Xenia Yellow Springs exit and head south.

Be sure to stop at Young's Jersey Dairy, a 24hr, watch the cows get milked, eat the Ice cream place. It's between the freeway and Yellow Springs.

Also, John Bryan State Park is a wonderfull place (in the dreams of a 15yr old, out of the house for the first time) . Actually I'm SURE it's a wonderful place, and it Has campsites. Not sure whether Yellow Springs has an actual hotel.

Antioch is suffering from a lack of funds, and almost closed last fall. Antioch, Oberlin, etc, someone else can fill in the blanks of the Liberal Arts colleges of Ohio. The Northern Sisters Colleges? Kind of like the Ivy League Sisters

Hopefully some Antiochian will fill in the blanks with a funding plea.

My only connection is that my YCC(at JB) and my first Lover, combine at Yellow Springs. (some years apart)

It is an enclave of Funkiness, and should be encouraged, SO GO VISIT!!!!

And drink out of the spring if it's still allowed, it's in JB.

Greg F

[Watershed]

Just because, an added bonus of Yellow Springs, they had an Independent Hot Glass shop, back in 82.

Just thought I'd add that due to the other Roman stuff. And the Roman stuff, Professors have spent entire careers trying to figure out how those pieces were done.

And the few solutions that have been published, make little sense to actual glassworkers like me.

GregF

[jafabrit]

Something special happened under the knit knot tree today, a couple tied the knot. Literally, they got married with a reverend officiating :) It was very sweet.

regards jafabrit

[fifi]

Just love a bit of woolly subversion.

Thanks for the cool stickers by the way!
Encouraging folks in Sydney to craft as hard as they can....