Strangest knitted/crocheted Items.

These make you look twice.

I thought these were cute!

Any knitted item I manage to finish is a bit strange. I've just completed a voluminous Nanna blanket and a chunky scarf and hat for our local Oxfam shop, that pass muster if you squint at them under a bad light. The manager was very encouraging when I told her what a basic knitter I was - they'll be put into the shop if they're saleable and if not out they'll go into the Blessings box in their yard (free warm clothes for anyone who needs them). I know exactly where my efforts are heading!

I'm also helping out the local yarn bombers (sorry, Jalima ) by knitting poppies for this year's Remembrance Day parade. They're hoping to cover the town in them over that weekend. As they want a safety pin on the back of each I'm assuming they'll sell them later to raise money for the Poppy Appeal (but maybe not mine).

Just started to knit a triceratops to be followed by knitting a diplodocus !

Years ago I had a dd ask me whether I could please knit a lemon (!) for a school friend, 'because her mum can't knit!'

Friend was knitting a basket of assorted fruit and veg for Home Economics GCSE - including a cauliflower! - and her deadline was looming. Yes, I did knit the lemon.

I dare say the exercise was useful in showing different stitches and techniques, but wouldn't you think they could have found something a bit more useful for them to spend all that time and yarn on?

Bathsheba

Or what about this lip balm cosy? gringringrin

Years ago a friend and I made a fortune in the run up to Christmas by knitting and selling these. We couldn't make enough of them.

Although ours weren 't so large, which puzzles me
We persuaded the lovely ladies at the local wool shops to put them discreetly on display (three shops in just my road back then).
They sold like hot cakes. In a very respectable area, the wives thought it an ideal little (?) stocking filler for hubby.

I didn't mind the knitting but could not bring myself to go in and deliver them to these lovely wool shop ladies in their twinsets and face powder and red lipstick.
My rather bolder friend did that bit.

We were both 13yrs old!! Thirteen!
Had they known, my Grandparents would have died of shame.
I blame my friend

There is an alternative to Lisalou's booby scarves - www.knittedknockers.org/ an organisation knitting soft prostheses for woment who have had mastectomies. They are always looking for volunteer knitters and provide patterns.

Oh! Just found out that the UK site is www.kkukciowix.com/

Refugee children... environmental crisis.... hasn't it struck you that both are happening in an overcrowded world?

Our population is getting too much for our world's resources, that's what the basic problem is!

I hope you don't mind me pasting this bit from your link AlieOxon:
The Crochet Reef project resides at the intersection of mathematics, marine biology, handicraft and community art practice, and also responds to the environmental crisis of global warming and the escalating problem of oceanic plastic trash

which all sounds wonderful and we need to raise awareness of the environmental crisis and oceanic plastic - but it never ceases to amaze me how much energy and yarn is expended by people on these projects when children are freezing in the winter in refugee camps.

Found in USA - lots of things with crocheted covers in one town!

This is the oddest I have seen

crochetcoralreef.org/

Sent me from Queensland by my oldest friend = I shall send her the yarn bombing link, she wants some more ideas and will be in hospital needing occupational knitting/crocheting soon....

saw a vintage pattern the other day for a aran all in one suit complete with leggings top and balaclava top dont think ill be making that

I managed to use the link, thank you.

Yes, we've been asked to knit some of those at a group I belong to (bad grammar).

sorry, the link wouldn't work for me, but IKWYM.
And sorry, but no, no, no!

Actually depends on the source you read. Also, apparently, used for birthing centres to teach lactation

www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjmjoCKosLbAhVC1RQKHfizC_YQjRx6BAgBEAU&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.showandtellmeg.com%2F2013%2F01%2Fchristmas-project-boobie-scarf.html&psig=AOvVaw00xaWMkCtZxGEYE8hHuioI&ust=1528485428981946
For people who have had mastectomies, until they can have corrective surgery

Perhaps they'll turn that watering can into blankets ...

I must admit that I did like the floral garden which was at Malvern Show recently

Today at Chatsworth Flower Show

It makes me want to scream!

AAAAARGH!!!

Yarn bombing drives me crackers, it is my bête noire!

All that lovely yarn, all that effort, going into decorating things like telephone boxes, cars etc - when there are little refugee children freezing in cold winters needing clothes, blankets etc.

Definitely wtf!

Spot on cookie. They always make me smile too. I saw a wonderful one in a local car park once - a Smart car completely covered in knitting. Absolutely brilliant, and hilarious!

Is yarn bombing where knitters cover things like telephone boxes? I have seen pictures and they always make me smile.

I think yarn bombing is one of those things that in 50 years time people will look back on and say "wtf?"

I think knitted and crocheted decoration of city centres is wonderful. Unfortunately not heard of any locally, and anyway I can't crochet and need a pattern to knit anything shaped.
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