Anything Knitted and Crocheted: Water Tower Pencil Cozy Video

Anything Knitted and Crocheted

Welcome to my blog. I hope to blog about my knitting and crocheting as well as everyday life. The patterns that I post are original and as such there is copyright on them. When they are based on another pattern there is a link to the pattern.

My husband and I adopted a beautiful dog named Leo. He is a dachshund and absolutely adorable! we adopted him on June 23, 2010 and he has become the love of our lives.

I love to share patterns that I find along the way or to talk about some of the neatest designers that are out there today, so I love to post links to the designs or the designers.

So grab a cup a and sit and enjoy the blog.

Cora

Saturday, May 16, 2009

Water Tower Pencil Cozy Video

What can 32 miles of yarn do? Promote design education AND help the homeless.

Artist Robyn Love and a team of 7 amazing crocheters created this amazing Water Tower Cozy -- installed on top of a New York City building to promote the D&AD (a design education non-profit) Pencil Awards -- with 32 miles of Wool-Ease Thick & Quick AND only 3 weeks!

After it was taken down, the cozy traveled to the annual Knit-Out & Crochet event at the Mall of America, where volunteers took apart the panels to make blankets for the homeless. Click here to watch the video!

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Cora

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The “Proselytize Knitting” Badge

The “Proselytize Knitting” Badge - A requirement for all Knitting Scouts, the recipient must do his or her bit to present knitting in a positive light, whilst at the same time avoiding all references to “hipness”, grandmothers, and yoga.

I’m always doing my part in this arena whether it’s spoken or written like in this blog. I teach at my local community league, which was a fluke. I am involved in the Alberta Avenue Initiative and was asked to teach both knitting and crochet. I start with dishcloths as it gives the basics.

The “MacGyver” Badge (Level One) - The recipient must demonstrate clever use of a non-knitting tool in a knitting-related scenario. For instance, recipient has used paper clips as stitch markers, or successfully whittled and then utilized bamboo skewers as dpns.

I’ve used all kinds of things as stitch markers when none were available, and have found clever ways of knitting cables without cable needles using skewers.