Worldwide response to Bollard Day

Since posting photos of Mad Knitters' Tea Party's contribution to IYBD on Flickr we have had a tremendous response. 8 photos favourited, one of them three times by people in Seattle, San Francisco and Japan, (my Japanese is not up to reading whereabouts in Japan!).  I'm off soon, at the request of the Hat Works Museum in Stockport, to put a very small hat on a knob on their entrance railings.

Crocheted out!

Wednesday and Thursday this week were spent travelling between Manchester Piccadilly and Media City Salford on a tram, crocheting as part of an interactive Contact Theatre performance called the Lost and Found Festival.  While a bunch of us knitted and crocheted people sang, recited, acted or danced around us and the other passengers.  The 2 knitted and 1 crocheted artwork produced were on display at the Contact Theatre, Oxford Road, Manchester yesterday.  I don't know how long they will be on display.

Yesterday was an early start.  Alarm 06:00, bus at 07:18 to Stockport with a huge rucksack of hats to go on bollards for International Yarn Bombing Day.  I'd been asked to co-ordinate Mad Knitters' Tea Party's contribution.  77 hats this Stockport based yarn crafting group created and it took only 30 minutes to have them all installed and photographed.  After 3 hours 60 had found new homes.

After coffee in a local cafe it was off to the Hatworks Museum for 3 hours of knitting and crochet in the cafe as our contribution to Worldwide Knitting in Public Day.  Then my wife Martie and I hopped onto a 42 bus for more public knitting and crochet before the Manchester contribution to Worldwide Knitting in Public Day event, also the end of the Lost and Found Festival, 3 hours at the Contact Theatre.  Great achievement, I started and finished a curly-leaved lettuce during the day.

I'm at a loose end now, between projects  What do I do next?  Something small in thread I think, a reaction to the 18 hats which were my contribution to IYBD 2011.