Patterns, advice drawings and information
for the KNIT THE CAMPUS project
Colour inspiration from the people, streets and scenes of Rio de Janeiro.
This information is specifically for the Knit the Campus project.
All information, Queen Babs' patterns and drawings are Copyright to Queen Babs/Jane Balke Andersen 2016. Other people's drawings and photos remain copyright to them.
All information, Queen Babs' patterns and drawings are Copyright to Queen Babs/Jane Balke Andersen 2016. Other people's drawings and photos remain copyright to them.
Workshop Dates
1. Thursday 14th July 4-6pm
2. Wednesday 20th 12pm- 1pm
3. Thursday 28th July 1-2pm
4. Tuesday 2nd August 12-1.30pm
Installation
A fun day of installing and becoming fully fledged Yarnbombers.
To be confirmed Saturday, August 20
Please bring (if you have them):
• Knitting needles in sizes 4, 4.4, 5, 5.5 and/or 6mm
• Crochet hooks in sizes 4, 4.4, 5, 5.5 and/or 6mm
• Sharp scissors
• Pompom makers
• The empty inside roll of kitchen paper towel, alfoil, plastic wrap, etc
• A sense of fun and adventure!
You may want to bring a pen to jot notes or ideas.
1. Thursday 14th July 4-6pm
2. Wednesday 20th 12pm- 1pm
3. Thursday 28th July 1-2pm
4. Tuesday 2nd August 12-1.30pm
Installation
A fun day of installing and becoming fully fledged Yarnbombers.
To be confirmed Saturday, August 20
Please bring (if you have them):
• Knitting needles in sizes 4, 4.4, 5, 5.5 and/or 6mm
• Crochet hooks in sizes 4, 4.4, 5, 5.5 and/or 6mm
• Sharp scissors
• Pompom makers
• The empty inside roll of kitchen paper towel, alfoil, plastic wrap, etc
• A sense of fun and adventure!
You may want to bring a pen to jot notes or ideas.
Summary of Required pieces for Knit the Campus
Knit or crochet
The Bridge Walkway
• 17 yarnbomb bases: Stretch out to 44cm wide, 30cm long.
• Crochet chain loops along bottom of each.
• Add short 10cm fringing to bottom.
Statement Tree
• 1 tree base: 92cm long, stretch out to 53cm at base, 48 cm at the top.
• 9 stripes
• decorations of flowers or hearts & buttons
Lovebombs
80+ lovebombs with tags
Winter Tree grouping
• 40 mandalas made into 20 cd mandalas
• Chains to hang the cds
Pompom walls
• Chains for pompom garlands 10-14 x 2-3m long
Pompom posse
• 200+ pompoms for Pompom Walls: vary colour and size. Tie onto crochet chains.
• 12-20 pompoms or tassles for Statement tree. Vary colour and make medium to large size.
• If no cd mandalas (check with crocheters) - 20 tassels for Winter trees: vary colour, same size.
Other
- Tags for lovebombs: design, make, cut out, punch hole in one corner to tie them. Tie them to loop of lovebombs.
- Sew on decorations to Statement Tree.
- sew decorations on Hearts and flowers hangings
Hearts and Flowers Hangings (for 5 light poles)
- crochet 5 hanging bases
- knit, crochet and make pompoms for each hanging: 5 decorations per pole
If time and yarn allow
Extra tassels for picnic table umbrellas, railings etc
PATTERNS & TIPS
hearts_and_flowers_hanging1.docx | |
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CD Mandala patterns.docx | |
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Celebration Flower crochet pattern.docx | |
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Cherry Blossom crochet pattern.docx | |
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knitted_flower.docx | |
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lovebomb_pattern_handout_.jpg | |
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knit_a_heart.docx | |
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how_to_make_tassels.docx | |
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making_a_pompom_with_cardboard_tubes.docx | |
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pompom_traditional_way.docx | |
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yarnbombing_tips_handout.docx | |
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summary_of_required_pieces_for_knit_the_campus.docx | |
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THE PLAN
1. The Bridge Walkway: the large wooden posts will have knitted and/or crocheted striped yarnbombs 30cm long with fringing attached below.
- 34 poles, 17 yarnbombs for every second pole or 11 for every third pole.
- The piece to stretch out to 44cm.
- Three (3) stripes per yarnbomb, 10cm long per stripe. Each stripe a different colour.
- Crochet loops on bottom of Yarnbomb piece to attach fringing.
- Fringing to be 10cm long.
2. The Bridge Walkway: the Nook wooden bench seats arms will be decorated with pompoms and the wall behind will be heavily decorated with hanging garlands of multicoloured, multi sized pompoms.
- 200 pompoms in assorted colours and sizes.
- 10 -14 X 2m long crocheted chains to tie the pompoms to.
3. Winter Trees : Four bare skeletal trees behind the fountain will be decorated with cd mandalas or tassels.
- 40 mandalas, 40 cds, 20 long crochet chains for hanging, OR
- 20 tassels, 5 per tree for 4 trees.
4. The lone Statement Tree near the large metal round balls could have a full trunk Yarnbomb with decorations of hearts and buttons with pompoms or tassels hanging from the tree's branches.
- 12-24 pompoms or tassels.
- 1 striped base made to specific size.
- 6 - 10 matching crocheted hearts.
- Sew on hearts to base. Perhaps add buttons.
5. Lovebomb hearts to giveaway laid out on cafe tables, picnic tables, and other prominent positions. 40-80 hearts with tags tied on to the loops.
Extras if time and yarn allow
6. Hanging pompoms, hearts and flowers hanging from the 5 poles along the walkway.
7. Tassels or pompoms hanging from railings, door handles or poles.
Drawings of the planned yarnbombs
Queen Babs aka Jane Balke Andersen taught herself to crochet in 2013, began yarnbombing that year and has not stopped since. She has yarnbombed over 4 dozen sites in Queensland and NSW, but places most of them in her home of Redfern. She shares her patterns and projects online and often invites others, locally and internationally, to participate. She has a strong international social media following and has been invited to take part in yarn bombing projects worldwide. In June 2015, she was awarded Australian of the Day by the Australian of the Year Foundation.
With a a life long passion for craft, art and teaching, Jane became a qualified teacher in 1989 and after teaching in high schools, she spent many years teaching privately in her studio and taking workshops for businesses for another 8 years. She is known as a supportive, inspiring and motivational teacher. She is currently working on a book of inspirational stories and fibre art photographs, developing ongoing fibre art projects with the National Centre of Indigenous Excellence, yarnbombing Sydney and encouraging a growing network of of fibre artists through Fibre Art Friday which she founded in 2014.
She says:
Creativity is a way of life. It is not a hobby. Regardless of the medium I use : yarn, paper, paint, photography, beads, etc, I MUST make and create or explode! I breathe, create things and share them to make people happy. That's my purpose in this world.
I started out wanting to add colour to the city, to make the streets beautiful and make people smile, now I work towards lifting the spirits of my community and the wider community who see and read about my yarn adventures. Sharing my personal challenges with invisible and chronic illnesses and using craft as a therapy for myself has become part of my day. I use my work to raise awareness, encouraging others, spread kindness and hopefully inspire happiness.
I hope I can continue working towards lifting the spirits of not only my community but anyone who passes my yarnbombs, receives a lovebomb or sees my photographs around the world. Regardless of personal challenges even maybe even because of them, I aim to inspire us all to be kinder and happier. Together we can make Australia and the world a better place…one ball of yarn at a time.
Wishing you happiness,
Jane
AKA Queen Babs, yarnbomber and fibre artist
https://instagram.com/queen_babs/
http://yarnbombersunited.weebly.com/
https://www.facebook.com/queenbabscards
https://twitter.com/queen_babs
https://www.pinterest.com/queenbabscards/
With a a life long passion for craft, art and teaching, Jane became a qualified teacher in 1989 and after teaching in high schools, she spent many years teaching privately in her studio and taking workshops for businesses for another 8 years. She is known as a supportive, inspiring and motivational teacher. She is currently working on a book of inspirational stories and fibre art photographs, developing ongoing fibre art projects with the National Centre of Indigenous Excellence, yarnbombing Sydney and encouraging a growing network of of fibre artists through Fibre Art Friday which she founded in 2014.
She says:
Creativity is a way of life. It is not a hobby. Regardless of the medium I use : yarn, paper, paint, photography, beads, etc, I MUST make and create or explode! I breathe, create things and share them to make people happy. That's my purpose in this world.
I started out wanting to add colour to the city, to make the streets beautiful and make people smile, now I work towards lifting the spirits of my community and the wider community who see and read about my yarn adventures. Sharing my personal challenges with invisible and chronic illnesses and using craft as a therapy for myself has become part of my day. I use my work to raise awareness, encouraging others, spread kindness and hopefully inspire happiness.
I hope I can continue working towards lifting the spirits of not only my community but anyone who passes my yarnbombs, receives a lovebomb or sees my photographs around the world. Regardless of personal challenges even maybe even because of them, I aim to inspire us all to be kinder and happier. Together we can make Australia and the world a better place…one ball of yarn at a time.
Wishing you happiness,
Jane
AKA Queen Babs, yarnbomber and fibre artist
https://instagram.com/queen_babs/
http://yarnbombersunited.weebly.com/
https://www.facebook.com/queenbabscards
https://twitter.com/queen_babs
https://www.pinterest.com/queenbabscards/
Emilya Colliver is the founder and director of Art Pharmacy and and Culture Scouts, offering art and culture consulting services to a wide range of clients across the private and public sector. Emilya is a skilled curator with an eye for transforming public spaces through different art forms and collaborating with local communities and artists to deliver impactful results.
Recent project include working with Mirvac to bring a new sense of place for Broadway shoppers in Sydney through series of public murals and recently curated Deloitte’s head office in CBD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Cvvdn2fJiM
Emilya is respected member of Sydney’s creative community and was a nominee for the 2015 InStyle and Audi 'Women of Style’ and 2014 NSW Business Chamber 'Young Entrepreneurs' awards 2016. Emilya is also an MCA Young Ambassador Committee member.
www.artpharmay.com.au
Martin Staer Andersen of JAM Project
Danish born photographer Martin Andersen has a passion for street art photography. He moved to Sydney in 1982 and began exploring Sydney, training as a Graphic Designer and continuing his love of drawing, painting and the arts.
He began photographing street art and the inner city landscape in 2010 and found a new passion. His work documents the changing face of street art and graffiti as well as many artists in the process of painting. He creates interesting and thoughtful portraits of many who are usually shy of being photographed.
His photographs have appeared in numerous art, photography and artists' blogs, websites, zines, publications, as well as documentaries and short films.
Artists and Galleries who feature his work include: Hego, Hazzy Bee, Queen Babs, Ox King, Will Coles, Sid Tapia, Peque, Mlon, Maid, Nico, Georgia Hill, Scott Marsh, Kitty Knitter, Camo, Bird Hat, Bunkwa, Nufink, Shida, Krispe, Buttons, Sofles, Vandalism Ink, Apeseven, Mike Watt, Monsteryandme, Zap, Suchis, YT plus Workshop Australia and Ambush Gallery.
Photos have appeared in the City of Sydney website, Time Out, Workshop Australia, The Black Digger documentary, The Story of Us documentary by Gillian Armstrong and many more.
Instagram @JAM_Project
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/JamProjectStreetArt/
He began photographing street art and the inner city landscape in 2010 and found a new passion. His work documents the changing face of street art and graffiti as well as many artists in the process of painting. He creates interesting and thoughtful portraits of many who are usually shy of being photographed.
His photographs have appeared in numerous art, photography and artists' blogs, websites, zines, publications, as well as documentaries and short films.
Artists and Galleries who feature his work include: Hego, Hazzy Bee, Queen Babs, Ox King, Will Coles, Sid Tapia, Peque, Mlon, Maid, Nico, Georgia Hill, Scott Marsh, Kitty Knitter, Camo, Bird Hat, Bunkwa, Nufink, Shida, Krispe, Buttons, Sofles, Vandalism Ink, Apeseven, Mike Watt, Monsteryandme, Zap, Suchis, YT plus Workshop Australia and Ambush Gallery.
Photos have appeared in the City of Sydney website, Time Out, Workshop Australia, The Black Digger documentary, The Story of Us documentary by Gillian Armstrong and many more.
Instagram @JAM_Project
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/JamProjectStreetArt/
Wendy Burgess, Fibre Artist
Wendy Burgess is an award winning fibre artist. Her primary means of artistic expression are feltmaking and crochet. Knitting is also part of her skill base.
Wendy has been running craft workshops for adults for nearly 20 years, both from her own studio and for a variety of educational and community groups. She is an enthusiastic and supportive teacher who inspires her students with her passion and creativity.
In recent years Wendy has developed an interest in yarn bombing and has participated in a number of ventures with Queen Babs, including a yarn bombing workshop and the preparation and installation of yarnbombs in Sydney's Central Park for Central Park Mall and Vivid and the QANTAS Headquarters installation for NAIDOC Week 2016.
Wendy has been running craft workshops for adults for nearly 20 years, both from her own studio and for a variety of educational and community groups. She is an enthusiastic and supportive teacher who inspires her students with her passion and creativity.
In recent years Wendy has developed an interest in yarn bombing and has participated in a number of ventures with Queen Babs, including a yarn bombing workshop and the preparation and installation of yarnbombs in Sydney's Central Park for Central Park Mall and Vivid and the QANTAS Headquarters installation for NAIDOC Week 2016.
Other fibre artists and enthusiasts
Part of the pleasure of working on projects is involving other fibre artists and crafters and emerging artists. We are pleased to announce other artists will be working with us including:
Cee Egan from Paint The Town Yarn
Diane Green from Its Only Di
Malinda Dickins from Doobie Designs
Cee Egan from Paint The Town Yarn
Diane Green from Its Only Di
Malinda Dickins from Doobie Designs