Giant Recycled Knitting Pyjama Party!

Let me explain:

One of the ladies who works at the Global Cafe in Reading, where our weekly knitting group meets, organized an artsy crafty musicy event for yesterday (12 Oct 2008). She approached Felix and invited the group to set up a table and do some knitting as part of it. Since the Global and RISC are all about fair trade eco-friendly save the planet stuff, it was proposed by Felix and happily accepted by all of us that we did some fun recycle themed knitting.

Plastic shopping bags and old T-shirts were gleefully sacrificed to the cause and turned into yarn. Gigantic knitting needles were procured (with many thanks to folks at Prick You Finger for letting us borrow them!) and, because we are totally silly, when Emmylou suggested we all turn up to knit in our pyjamas … we did!

The main project was making bunting out of our recycled yarn on the gigantic needles. The massive needles made it in a way as much performance art as knitting, since you really had to get your whole body into the motions. Random bouts of bursting into little dance routines as the mood and music tempted only added to the overall zany craziness.

I have no idea where that amazingly bright white globe came from. We had originally thought it was flash glare off of the FRRS balloon, but as you can see in the pic, the balloon is actually further to the left. Our theory now is that Gemma has a pet ghost.

I also worked on some smaller recycled plastic bag knitting. Using Hakucho’s Big Bag as a jumping off point, I just started playing about with creating a bag. Mine is looking to come out much more square-shaped, and I’m thinking I’ll play around a bit with a different handle set-up. Thanks to the joy that is Ravelry there’s a bunch of different knitted plastic bag ideas I can browse through.

All in all it was a fabulously fun night, and come Tuesday we may have a new addition to the group! Huzzah!