Thursday, March 15, 2007

 

Chicago knitting art

I was in Chicago for a few days this past weekend, and I managed to make it downtown. As we were looking for parking, we passed something called the "Stitching Salon"- which I thought was a new yarn store. I was wrong. When I finally made it back there, it turned out that the Chicago tourism board has put together an exhibition of knit artwork, coupled with an interactive project, and free lessons.

Their webpage is http://www.winterdelights.com/stitchingsalon/about.html

I added to the interactive project... which was organized by the Windy City Knitting Guild. Basically, it was a sewing form set on top of a table, and the Guild had put a sweater on the form, and attached a "skirt" made up of swatches of every size, and people sitting around the table were encouraged to add to the skirt. There were vases of knitting needles, crochet hooks, needles and a wall of yarn, ribbon and beads to pick from. I wish I had a camera- but I'll be heading back to Chicago in about 3 weeks- right when the Stitching Salon will be closing. Maybe I'll get my picture then, and see what someone added after me!

Here's a picture of it that I found
http://promotions.drgnetwork.com/newsletters/creativeknitting/images/21101507/PhotoE_FiberCircleProject-lg.jpg

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