A Bit of a Yarn

22/11/2023

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Five thousand balls of wool and a “kaupapa of joy” have been woven together to create what might be the most heart-warming building in Aotearoa.

30/10/2022

24/08/2021

Normalynn Ablao swaps starch for fiber in her crocheted pantry staples. The California-based crafter shapes penne, coils of spaghetti, and stuffed tortellini, creating piles of yellow pasta from tightly looped yarn. Whether crocheting individual macaroni or ricotta-and-sauce-filled lasagna, the text

23/08/2021

If only we had the weather for this in Esk St!

Beating the heat in the town of Alhaurín de la Torre, in Malaga is an art, literally. A massive patchwork of crocheted squares now blankets the main shopping corridor thanks to local crochet teacher Eva Pacheco and over a dozen students. Three years ago, the city council's Department of the Environ...

20/08/2021

Maximise your helath through lockdown.

By day, Trevor Smith is a local council worker in Victoria, Australia. After hours, Smith creates replicas of elaborate meals and household appliances in crocheted wool. Cheese platters, baked hams, toasters, and hair dryers are carefully constructed using foam armatures underneath the woolen exteri

28/07/2021

Pastoral landscapes and quiet domestic scenes stitched into vintage textiles envelop Ulla-Stina Wikander’s needlepoint sculptures. Using rotary phones, kitchen appliances, or an antique gramophone as her foundation, Wikander (previously) molds the cross-stitch works around her chosen object, cloak...

24/05/2021

Knitting spies.

Grandma was just making a sweater. Or was she?

08/04/2021

28/03/2021

Do you want to learn to knit a poppy?

Head to the Invercargill Public Library on Thurs April 8th 2pm - 3:30pm

21/03/2021

Come and be part of the Invercargill chapter of the story. Hear about the charities involved and share your knitting skills or learn some new ones.

Thursday 8th April
Invercargill Public Library
Adults 2:00pm - 3:30pm
Children 3:30pm - 5:00pm

Bringing remembrance and hope for the future together, a team of 29 pilots are flying around NZ in the run up to ANZAC Day to raise funds for the RSA, the Starship Foundation and NZ Warbirds. We need your help.