For those who followed the project last year you will know we are a small GP surgery on the beautiful coast of North Yorkshire. We have a group of patients and friends of the surgery who love crafting with yarn, following the sucess of the yarn bombing last year we ran the event for 2015 following a similar format for but with some new themes.
Dinosaur Park
I had my doubts about including dinosaurs anticipating it would be limiting in terms of patterns, couldn’t have been more wrong as you can see.
We had quite a few knitted prehistoric deliveries both large and small.
Lots of dino’s for our park in a variety of sizes from the miniature 4-6 inch creations above that patients brought in. To the rather large Stan the Stegosaurus who you may have seen in a previous post where I shared the working progress of creating this colouful prehistoric creaature.
And Monty the Diplodocus.
Teddy Bear’s Picnic
This was one of my favourite pieces, you can see from the size of the raffle ticket just how tiny these little teddies are, they sat on their little picnic blanket contemplating their miniature sandwiches and cakes throughout the weekend. As I am sure you can imagine they were one of the first items to receive a bid.
There was an array of little woolly bears and teddy toys gathered in the picnic corner to share in the knitted and crochet cakes, biscuits and sanwiches including Mrs Baker Bear sat on the chair with piping bag in hand to finish off the last bun.
Rollo the african flower bear settled down amongst the log pile for a snooze after devouring his fill of the picnic.
To sit alongside the picnicing bears we had a stand (ok and yarn bomed step ladder) laden with tea cosies.
These were a very popular contribution to the event, it must be in celebration of the great british brew!
Down on the Farm
One of our group particularly requested we include a Farm theme this year, she had a new book by Sarah Keen that she was dying to try and we were so pleased with results, you can almost hear those little piggies snorting.
Our Parctice Nurse managed to aquire a hay bale for us to display our farmyard creatures, I was thrilled but my lovely hubby was less so as I used his car to collect it! Four weeks on and he has just about got the last of the straw removed from his car boot.
A patient kindly donated this gorgeous african flower horse, I believe it is from the Heidi Bears pattern but sadly the donator remains anonymous so I cannot be sure.
We also had a gathering of owls nestling in the bushes casting their wise eyes over the weekend proceedings.
And in the hedgerow below gathered a collection of bunnies and other creatures.
And birds simply sat on the fence watching the world go by.
I don’t want to bore you so will call this post part 1, I will continue working on compiling the other half of the images to post early next week. I am working tomorrow as we are open for our first Flu clinic, it is always a bit crazy at this time of the year when everyone wants to get their vaccination done early to protect against catching a flu bug!
the teddy bears are soooooo cute…. ahhh.. let us know if you going to have another yarn bomb charity project.. will support you. 😉
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Thank you so much that is so kind.
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Everything is so gorgeous!! Oh,just look at those creatures!!!
But I fell in love with the tea cozies…. ❤ ❤ ❤ …I have to try myself and crochet one of these sweeties!
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I hope that your gift has arrived, if not it should be with you soon x
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Oh,thanks,Geraldine, it has not arrived yet but it will be here soon,I’m sure about that. I’ll send you a mail when it will be here. ❤
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I hope it arrives soon, I will keep my fingers crossed.
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🙂 🙂 🙂
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What a fun project. Love it.
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It was fun to do even if very time consuming, and it’s great to support our local hospice.
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Wow! What a collection! Love the pigs and Rollo the bear and the tea cozzies are fabulous. I could go on and pick out all the others too!
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Thanks for your kind words, we were in this weekend for winning bidders to collect their goodies.
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What an amazing collection of crafted items. Can’t wait to read part 2 🙂 x
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Thank you.
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How fun! These are all so spectacular and creative! I think I like all the African flower animals the best but every one is a treasure.
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Thanks, it’s funny because people generally either love the african flower creations or really dislike them, I like the most colourful ones the best.
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Some incredible creations here and you saved the best ’til last – those birds are fantastic! I’m glad it was so popular again this year for you and hope loads of money was raised.
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Thank you, it wasn’t as busy as last year but it was still a great project to be part of.
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I forgot to say the birds at the end are from a new book by Kerry Lord another in the Edwards Menagerie range. Her patterns are so easy to follow and quick to work up, I will do a post shortly on the birds and include a link to the book.
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Ah, I thought I recognised them – I was flicking through that book yesterday on their stall at The Handmade Fair in London.
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Did you buy it? I have both her books and the way the different animals/birds are made from the same basic pattern is really very clever and is what makes them so quick to whip up.
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No, I don’t make toys very often, but I was tempted because they are really lovely.
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These all look lovely – well done you!
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Thank you, we had a great team of crafters, not large but dedicated, my thanks go to them and the generosity of our patients.
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You know I love Stan the Steg, but he’s got competition now with the horse and the adorable owls! What a great idea. I hope you count it a success!
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Many thanks, we will be doing a count up soon, I don’t think it was a busy as last year but the whole town was less busy too so we won’t take it to heart. It is a great cause no matter how much or little we raise.
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I love these so much! I’ve yet to start a Heidi Bears creation but am looking forward to a “Smaug” in my future. I used to make those very cave people and dinosaurs for my children when they were littlies. Jean Greenhowe’s patterns are so much fun 🙂
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Thanks, once a good pattern always a good pattern don’t you think. I really loved making the cave people.
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I think I may have to make the stegosaurus too! So cute! I still love the bee tea cosy too! I’ll have to try and make a crochet version I think. I still can’t knit!!
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I will keep a look out for a crochet version of the tea cosy, it is a very old pattern. The bees are crochet though so you could make those no problem, it a free pattern from one of our generous blogging friends http://crochetnplay.blogspot.co.uk/2011/01/free-crochet-pattern-buzzy-bee.html. Thanks.
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