Saturday, 4 July 2015

On show later this week in Launceston, Tasmania

Our 50 Years of Flower Power collaborative artwork soon will have its second showing...

...later this week at the Craft & Quilt Fair at the Silverdome in Launceston, Tasmania. 

When it was displayed for the first time, in Sydney a couple of weeks ago, the retail part of the show was busy, so I really didn't get much of a chance to pick up the camera to take photos, but here are a few, interspirsed with all the comments that were written in the 'guest book'


"Congratulations! What an amazing achievement from everybody."
"Very inspiring, and very groovy." 
"Delightful"
"Wonderful display"
"Fantastic, Wonderful"
"Just wonderful!!"
"Brings a smile to your face.  Wonderful"
"Wow.  Just beautiful!"
"Magnificent."
"Fabulous!!"
"Simply physchedalic (spelling??).  Brightens anyone's day.  Just fantastic."
"Beautiful - I was a flower power girl"
"Extraordinary display!! Wow!!"
"Fantastic, Amazing and beautifully creative display!"
"Fantastic arrangement"


"Simply stunning - amazing piece of art - wow!!!"
"Absolutely gorgeous - Amazing !!!"
"SPLENDID!"
"LOVE!!!  Fabulous!!"
"Amazing"
"Fab Darling   :-)   "
"Love your works"
"Just Beautiful - does make you smile and feel happy"
"Amazing and such a great amount of work putting it together."
"Thank you for sharing your talent, art and passion!"
"Fabulous!"
"Beautiful! and Lovely!!"
"AMAZING! Well Done. I have never seen anything like this...EVER"
"We loved our course with you.  I wonder if we could make something as ambitious and amazing as this."  ...to all the girls in the EFTAG group "I'm sure you could"
 

"This is amazing!  Made my day!"
"Absolutely 'blown away' by this!!"
"I'm so grateful I wasn't on the assembly line; it would have been quite a challenge..but a most rewarding one; it's amazing."
"Amazing, glad to see I'm not the only one still crocheting"
"So spectacular - I was blown away with this amazing display."
"Joy of colour - lifts the soul - inspirational creativity"
"very good"
"inspiring"
"Uplifting"
"Just AMAZING.  bring back the '60s!"
"Swag"
"absolutely amazing - so many talented colourful people"
"Fabulous"
"Best exhibit of the day!  Beautiful,"


"Wow!  Awesome!!  I feel INSPIRED!"
"Gorgeous"
"Cool man!"
"So spectacular!!  Bellissimo!!"
"Credit goes to Pru Mapstone for joining all these gorgeous crochet pcs together.  Good on you Pru"
"LOVE IT!!  Fabulous colours - gorgeous designs"
"Very intriguing to look at.  You could spend hours!?
"Love all your flower power - great job everyone"
"Absolutely fantastical"
"Wonderful, Thank you"
"Exquisite - what fun"
"Absolutely Beautiful - Lovely Work"
"Magnificent work.  Well done"
"A fun keepsake.  Well Done:
"Beautiful colourful art...Love it"
"Absolutely Stunning!  Great work everyone!"
"Beautiful, Stunning, absolutely amazing"
"Fabulous effort"
"It's great to see all the colour and creativity."
"Wonderful!! Such inspiration"


"Incredible work! Well done"
"Really great"
"Wonderful - Great teamwork.  Loved it."
"Brings back memories in London!"
"Very bright, colourful and cheerful:
"What a wonderful display of talend and colour:
"Amazing work.  Skill and patience showing."
"PEACE - Love it.  Thank you to all those crever crafters?"
"Absolutely inspiring. Thank you so much for all your effort. I could look at this for hours."
"Absolutely incredible!  Such an amazing piece of work."
"Saw this on FB First, and that is what got me to the Fair.  Fabulous work!  Congrats."
"Far out man!  Totally groovy!  Thanks for all the love and inspiration.
"Inspirational!  I just get a warm and fuzzy feeling!  Just wonderful.  Thank you for all the love this masterpiece makes me feel."
"Wonderful.  I appreciate all the hard work and love that went into the making of it."


"Amazing work.  It looks beautiful."
" LOVE IT!!"
"It's great but why no South African contributors?"  
"Fantastic"
"Fantastic.  What a beautiful work of art.  xx"
"Simply divine, would absolutely love it on my wall."
"I think they are amazing, I would love to have one on my bed"
"All that work!  Lovely!"
"Amazing colours"
"Stunning.  Very creative."
"This is a true work of art.  Thank you."
"So much passion and love contained in one artwork.
 "  :-)  !"
"So much hard work, but enjoyment from doing such a beautiful work."
"Fantastic!! so hard to do, amazing"
"Unbelievable.  So beautiful"
"ABSOLUTELY AWSOME AMAZING WORK"
"Absolutely stunning!!"
"Wonderful work"
"Very inspiring"
"Bellissimo"
"Very Inspiring!!  Thank You!"


"Go girls go! Fantastic work!"
"Great to see"
"beautiful and neat and just perfect"
"What a great project.  Very colourful"
"Fabulous feeling to be a small contributor to such a fabulous work.  Thank you Prudence for your massive undertaking to put it all together."
"Sensational, Inspiring and Fun"
"A fun, happy piece - great!"
"Fabulous and inspiring..."
"Inspiring, Beautiful"
"Absolutely Magnificent - what an achievement"
"Just stunning, not to mention a wonderful reminder of the '70s!"
"A wonderful display of colour - a feast for my eyes!  Thank you."
"It was brilliant and colourful"
"fantastic.  congratulations"
"Amazing - extremely talented"
"Incredible!  Truly amazing"
"a pleasure to see"

...so, contributors, know that all your hard work was most definitely appreciated, enjoyed and very much photographed by visitors to the show. 

The comments book will continue to travel with the artwork to other shows(...but I might just photograph the pages in future, to save myself from so much typing!!)

 

 

 

 


 



Friday, 19 June 2015

some closeups!

fabulous response so far from all who have seen it; busy with the show, but here are a few more closeups to be going on with, taken just before opening












Wednesday, 17 June 2015

it's ready and waiting for the start of the show

how do you like it, now that it is all done?

if you are in Sydney this week, do come take a look.  free ferries throughout the day from either Circular Quay or Darling Harbour 



Tuesday, 16 June 2015

it's huge!

So finally, here it is in all its glory.  To get it all in the shot, I had to take the photos from a balcony overlooking the carpark at the school where my husband worked.  Those divided-off sections in the top right of the first photo are car park bays...so that will give you an idea of the size of the finished piece - a pretty impressive joint effort, don't you think?



The left-hand end:
The centre section:

and the right-hand end:


I'll be back again with a few closeups tomorrow...and then will add lots more photos once the piece goes on show later in the week.  I don't think that anyone visiting the Craft & Quilt Fair at the Sydney Exhibition Centre at Glebe Island this year is going to miss it...it really is huge!!!

one more scrumble...and a few stats. about the finished piece


The completed piece is in Sydney, ready to be hung for the show later this week...but first, here is a photo of one final scrumble that arrived in the mail...just a little after all of the others, but still in time for me to add it to the mix.

This last piece was made by Kasja McNaught from Rochedale, Qld, Australia, and I managed to fit it in well with everything else, even though most of the pieces were already joined together when it got here.  A very pretty final addition, so thanks Kasja...and once again, very many thanks to everyone else who took the time to contribute.  In the end, we had just over 200 contributors from more than 20 different countries. 

Whist I can't say for sure that the finished artwork is the biggest collective piece of freeform crochet and knitting ever made, it certainly has to be up there with the best!

Now that everything is joined together, the finished piece measures approximately 10m x 1.5m (that's about 33ft x 5ft, and it weighs about 17kg (over 37lbs)...that's a heck of a lot of yarn!!

Some photos of the finished piece will be in the next blog post...in just a few minutes :-)