Holbrook is a small town of about 1,200 people that's 80km south of the town I grew up in. It was the last town to be bypassed as part of the Hume Highway upgrade between Sydney and Melbourne, and the yarnbomb was a way to attract visitors to the town.
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The Holbook yellow submarine yarnbomb. |
The yarnbomb was perfectly timed to match the 50-year anniversary of the Beatles tour of Australia and to coincide with world yarn-bombing day and world knit-in-public day too. Check out this great timelapse of the submarine being covered – it truly was a mammoth effort.
And in a nice segue from knitting in Scotland to embroidery, the next project I wanted to share is the Great Tapestry of Scotland. I came across it earlier in the week on Kate Davies' lovely blog.
This monumental piece was the brainchild of Alexander McCall Smith (what doesn't that man do?). He was inspired by the Prestonpans tapestry and contacted its designer – Andrew Crummy – to see if he would be interested in the project. Andrew said yes, and the whole thing took off from there.
The tapestry covers 420 million years of Scottish history and is worked in a similar style to the Bayeux tapestry, but is much longer. Its 160 panels were stitched by 1,000 volunteers working in groups, with each panel taking more than 400 hours to complete.
Panels of The Great Tapestry of Scotland - Images by Alex Hewitt
Now I'm going back to my projects which seem quite small-scale and domestic after this lot! Happy week everyone.
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