The coolest bit of knit graffiti I've seen in a while comes this week from a group of grandmas known as the Senior Design Factory who knit a shoe-shaped cozy for a Smart Car. The massive -- and cute -- project took 70 pounds of yarn and two months to create, and the ladies are hoping it will take the Guinness world record for biggest handknit car cover.
In other yarn bombing news, the Washington City Paper blog has a profile of two knitters who've been prettying up the streets of Mount Pleasant in recent months. The Warm and Fuzzies, who go by the names Pasta and Ruffles, say D.C. is a great yarn bombing town because there are so many statues and monuments. They've done some small-scale tagging of local dioramas and statues, but are hoping to team up with other knitters to take their art huge.
And speaking of knitting and art, check out the work of Siren Elise Wilhelmsen, who won the Time to Design award with her work "Developing Time -- Time Developing," a clock with an integrated knitting loom that makes a 2 meter scarf in the course of a year. The clock was her senior project at the University of Arts, Berlin.
I've told you before about the Idaho woman and her daughter who were hoping to have knit hats for all the 2,700 members of the 116th Cavalry Brigade Combat Team before they shipped out this month, and I'm happy to report they've more than met their goal, with almost 3,300 hats being sent overseas. Surplus hats will go to an organization that sends care packages to soldiers.
A New Zealand woman is going to be helping a lot of little ones in South Africa keep warm with her collection of more than 2,000 knit hats, not to mention booties and vests, that will go to a maternity home in Cape Town. But Louise Allnutt admits to knitting just one of the beanies herself, and she had to look up instructions online after having put down her knitting for 20 years.
Finally, members of a British knitting group who bared all for a charity calendar have disrobed once again for a limited-edition set of postcards. The Knitting Noras hope to raise £3,000 for the charity After Adoption. The cards are available in two different sets of five images, and there are 1,000 copies of each image. They can be purchased in sets or individually online.
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You might like to know that one of our knitters at a Springdale church has knitted well over 450 hats for one of the elementary schools here.