50 years of flower power - a freeform crochet and knit artwork

This blog has been documenting the creation of a unique piece of wall art for an upcoming Sydney textile show. Freeform crochet or knit contributions were sought worldwide, for a collaborative artwork to be exhibited at Fibrefest, June 17-21, 2015, in conjunction with the Craft & Quilt Fair at Glebe Island, Sydney, Australia. All the 'scrumbles' have now arrived, but you will be able to continue to watch the progress here. Enjoy!

Friday 30 January 2015

First piece received!

The first contribution to our 50 years of Flower Power artwork arrived in the mail today.

It is a gorgeously bright crochet scrumble made by Gwenda Miller from Birkdale, Queensland, Australia. Gwenda was certainly quick off the mark getting her piece made and posted...but Birkdale is another suburb of Brisbane, which means that she lives quite close to me and so it didn't have too far to travel.

My photo really doesn't do it justice; all of the colours are very vibrant, the hot pink heart is amazing, and the dark section at the bottom is more of a rich deep purple that it appears in the picture.

Well done, Gwenda; many thanks. It's most definitely a very fitting start to the project.

The piece measures 30cm across (about 12").

1 comment:

Jodiebodie2 February 2015 at 18:58
Love the LOVE! Make love not war! Great work. Your daily photo posts are enthusing me!
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