Saturday, November 19, 2011

Honey.... I yarn-bombed the kids!

It was the wee girl's birthday week.  The festivities wound around her being 6, losing a first tooth and having an enormous ball of machine-knitted jumbo yarn. 
Many thanks to Angela from the Machine Knitters Association of Victoria for the inspiration and for actually KNITTING the jumbo yarn for us. 

On the birthday day, I was "special guest" at school aftercare, with a bundle of yarny crafts and the jumbo yarn. The kids loved being a human knitting machine and the carers loved having all the kids tied up engaged. 
 Today was the party day.  My plans for a low-key, set-the-kids-loose-in-a-park idea was relocated and reformatted when rain was predicted for this morning.  Plan B was my studio and craft activities.....
 ...and a human Knitting Nancy.

I'm not sure what the kids thought of it all. Some were totally into it and others didn't seem to get it at all. 

There were whispers amongst the adults about leaving the kids there and going for coffee.....

We didn't.  We stayed and had fabulous cake.  But that deserves a blog post of its own (and I'm too exhausted to post it just now).
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14 comments:

  1. A Peppermint PenguinNovember 19, 2011 at 10:00 PM

    Brilliant! Looks like lots of squishy fun.

    Bet T is going to try this!

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  2. UnknownNovember 19, 2011 at 10:10 PM

    Love the human Knitting Nancy. Happy birthday to the wee girl.

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  3. CassNovember 19, 2011 at 11:09 PM

    Looks like fun and happy birthday to your little Miss

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  4. FionaNovember 19, 2011 at 11:15 PM

    She's a lucky wee girl!! That jumbo yarn looks like such fun!

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  5. LynneNovember 20, 2011 at 12:15 AM

    Looks like great fun. Happy birthday to the Wee Girl.

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  6. Bubble My LicoriceNovember 20, 2011 at 7:56 AM

    awww how cute :)

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  7. SallyNovember 20, 2011 at 8:52 AM

    That looks like SO much fun!!!

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  8. TaniaNovember 20, 2011 at 10:01 AM

    Now THAT'S a party I'm sorry I misses. Though if I'd been about, there would have been a possible involvement of Stringing Up In Trees.

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  9. CurlyPopsNovember 20, 2011 at 10:19 AM

    Happy Birthday wee girl. Looks like lots of fun was had!

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  10. meli BNovember 20, 2011 at 2:43 PM

    Yes the rain was a wash out yesterday. Lucky you have the studio. Happy Birthday. You have officially survived 6 years and I think parents should get a few presents too for that feat.

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  11. HeleneNovember 20, 2011 at 4:01 PM

    That's brilliant! Happy birthday to your little one. So glad I'm getting a grandchild soon - all those fabulous kids' things I can create/participate in again!

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  12. LottiNovember 20, 2011 at 4:25 PM

    I totally love this post. The colours are awesome and it looks like the kids had so much fun. How cool is that.

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  13. becciNovember 26, 2011 at 10:34 AM

    I have found the answer to my question of what to do with the kids while I sew!

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  14. PennyNovember 30, 2011 at 12:40 PM

    What a fabulous idea!
    I love totally hands on projects with kids, funny how an idea like this can seem scary but in reality the children's interest just drives the presentation. Thanks for sharing!
    Penny.

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