courtesy of Shawn Thomas, click on image to jump to his Flickr
There has been much clamoring for an extension, and we finally got the okay from UT’s Keeper of the Trees. We are so pleased to announce that Knitted Wonderland will stay up at the Blanton for another week, until March 25th.
After you check out the photos below, click around these links to see the blog posts and flickr sites of all the hardworking volunteers. (I’m sure I’ve left some out, so if we’ve missed your link, please post to comments below! It will be added.)
On the blogs:
Lora-Lee Blalock at Just Orb,
Sally Villarreal at Sally Comes Unraveled,
Sandra Singh at Knitting with Sandra Singh,
Brenda Tharp at Art on Art,
Cristen Andrews at Bags Begone,
Velma Metz at Velma Knits,
KnitHacker,
and Poppytalk.
On Flickr:
The Griffin School,
Shanti Deva via Joey Marez,
immarci,
Sally Villarreal,
Carolyn Bettelheim,
and Daniela Lozano.
image courtesy of Patrick Larson, click on image to jump to his flickr
Magda with the crew from the Griffin School
Image courtesy of The Griffin School.
Image courtesy of Mary Roland.
Image courtesy of Mary Roland.
Love, love, love this project. It’s crazy beautiful and lovingly shot. Thanks for sharing with us.
I love it! I think that it is absolutely beautiful!!!
thanks!!!!
How fantastic does that look….what an amazing shot! I LOVE it….might have to do some trees over here 🙂
Bravo! A simply exquisite project.
Made me wish I was a knitter.
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This was so much fun and I was so excited to be involved. When I was taking my knitting down today, three different people came up to me to say how much they enjoyed seeing the trees every day and to thank me for my involvement.
Yay! I’m so glad you had fun. The community’s involvement and appreciation completely blew us away – thank you thank you for your part in it. xo
I am not a knitter but so appreciate the beauty of this collaborative masterpiece.
wow what a thing to be a part of
I’m a huge fan of yarn bombing, but I hope you realize that you basically just prevented all of these trees from growing. By putting yarn installments around the trunks, the trees are now restricted and cannot grow outward (think how rings inside of trees tell the age), effectively killing them.
Source: http://www.appalachianwood.org/forestry/treegrow.htm
Hi Melissa, thanks for your concern. For this project, we consulted closely with UT’s head arborist to ensure that we didn’t damage the trees. The installation was up for only 3 weeks (taken down last Friday) during a time of year when the trees weren’t growing anyway. We certainly would never put up a project that would harm nature. Again, we appreciate your concern, and thanks for following Knitta Please.