Those trees've got trunks like legs! - wearing warmers!

Yes! It's getting cold enough for hotties and snuggling under 'doonas' - duvets. I am even lucky enough to have a gorgeous crocheted hottie (hot-water bottle) cover given to me by my sister and made by her talented friend Rosa-May

But what about all those things in the great outdoors that don't get a hottie? What about the trees?! Don't they get cold? Well, some people think so! Tomorrow (June 11th) is the inaugural International Yarn Bombing Day. Let me know if you see any examples of cosy-ed up statues or snuggly looking bike stands.


This example of yarn-bombing is by a group lead by Austin, Texas 'knitta' Magda Sayeg. Like Rosa-May, Magda is one of these new generation crochet addicts and is using this time-consuming craft to bring joy to others' lives and hopefully money to theirs. Magda is getting comissions across the world now, so go for it people - use your talents!

I remember at college (high school) we did a class art installation once after our teacher had introduced us to the likes of Christo and Jean-Claude. But instead of doing big bulbous -and probably much faster - coverings, we decided carefully wrap a tree in plastic wrap, revealing every branch. The end result looked like a European winter wonder-thing - as if it were covered in icicles. I haven't a picture of our tree so looked online to see if there were images of something similar. Just type into mage search 'wrapped tree' and marvel, go on!, at the resulting instant art collection. When I narrowed it down to 'tree wrapped in plastic' though, I found this:

This is NOT what our tree looked like but is a good reminder to use less plastic! The website this photo was featured on has some tips for householders on which plastics can and can't be easily recycled.

So let's make our world more beautiful - whether it be with crochet and knitting or simply recycling rubbish and not creating lots of new rubbish, do what you can!