we couldnt get out

While Wollongong is busy getting covered in knit,
and I am mucking around with Frankie
and Annette from the council,

Meet Elly, the worlds oldest guerrilla knitter - she is
87 years old and loves the idea
of dressing poles and trees for fun.

She reminds me of my mother,
and Elly knits in the continental
way too, so she really cranks it out.

Further afield than Wollongong, there is lots
more happening in the world of knit.

You have to admire someone who would knit
several miles of hot pink yarn i cord to resemble a fence,
then make a fence, complete with barbed wire.

Lacey Jane Roberts did that.


Not only did she make an exact pink knitted replica
of industrial fencing, she installed it in the middle of a back street
in San Francisco halting traffic for hours.

Later on she put it in a gallery where
everyone could enjoy it wothout getting run over.

We couldn’t get in. We couldn’t get out.
Installed in Clarion Alley, San Francisco, California.

Hand-woven wire, crank-knit yarn, steel poles,
assorted hardware. 10’ x20’. 2006-2007

She has this Chinese proverb on her site:

"an invisible red thread connects
those who are destined to meet regardless
of time, place or circumstance.
The thread may stretch or tangle,
but it will never break."

Another red thread connects Lindsay Obermeyer to her daughter.
See how they are joined?
No hand holes.

She explores issues of motherhood in a series of jumpers.

eternal umbilicus..

She long arms of a mother feeling stretched.

This one is entitled "knocked out"

Mother issues anyone??

Labled as a political knitter,Adrienne Sloane knits
with fine gauge wire and her focus
has been on the war in Iraq.

Here, the red and white stripes are
knitted bodies, sewn end to end.

The cost of human life..

When she travelled to Sydney to teach,
I snapped up the opportunity.
She helped me unravel the secrets of
my 1953 knitting machine,

we had cocktails at the Opera house
and checked out the knitted convenience..

I have to thank Adrienne for sending me her
images to post here. She is published in many
contemporary knit books, so you may have seen her.