Yarnbombing

So I've been a busy bee lately.  I've been doing some yarn bombing, along with lots of other enthusiastic knitter volunteers!  It's the Leicester Comedy Festival, which is sponsored by the TV Channel Dave.

Our task was to create lots of little bits and bobs to cover some of the statues and bollards in the city centre.

It got spotted by the local paper, and some of our work can be spotted here

We are really pleased with it!  Unfortunately, it clashed with a demonstration from the EDL and a counter demo by the Leicester group of United Against Fascism so we were a bit worried about it (the EDL came to Leicester a while back and tried to trash the place).  Some of the bits have gone missing - like the scarf and handbag that the Thomas Cook statue was wearing.  If you'd like to see more pictures, check out the #cheekyknitting hashtag on twitter.

I never got to see most of my work as I've been househunting - I've been asked to move from my shared house.  This is ok though, as me and the fella have been planning on moving in together for a while, so it's all go.  I've also now started my course at Uni - I'm doing a Certificate of Higher Education in Counselling.  It's all going swimmingly, but then I would say that now when the deadlines for work are about 5 weeks away.  Plus it's reading week this week.  I have a few books already and I plan to get to the library on Thursday morning so I can get some reading done.

I also took part in the KGB (Knitting Guerilla's from Birstall's) Valentine Day yarn bombing.  I was working when they were putting their hearts up, so popped down this morning.  I must say, they did a fine job! Have a look at their blog to see how they got on.  I took a few of my own photographs this morning, but with an iPhone camera as I forgot to pick my own camera up as I left the house!!

Here are my pictures.  Shame the quality of some of the pictures wasn't so good, but hey, it was cold and I was using an iPhone camera.  I got home to find that my cat had found the remainder of the red yarn and had a good play with it so had yarn bombed the house.  Cheeky little sod!

In the meantime, I am working on getting some of my jewellery onto Folksy, plus I'm looking into buying a domain name as well as getting a page on Facebook.  Keep an eye on Folksy as items will be trickling on slowly but surely.  I've been pinning some of my favourite items onto Pinterest too, which is my new addiction.  Pinterest, that is, not bragging about my own stuff, which is something I'm not very good at!!!

So yeah.  All good fun, but I'm very busy, but I'm enjoying being busy!