The day of the great Yarn Bomb (1 August 2014) finally arrived and hubby and I set off to Pretoria. The last time we visited the Voortrekker Monument was about 28 years ago (before we married!).
After the Garmin got us lost a few times, insisting we turn where there were no turns, or make a u-turn in the face of oncoming traffic, and attempting to send us up a dirt road we eventually arrived at the Monument.
OH MY!! OH MY! So much yarny awesomeness!!!
I have never ever seen so many granny blocks!
We had to behave like tourists and get a "selfie" at the foot of the stairs with the most spectacular display of colour in the background!
In order for the world record attempt to succeed a total number of 19050 blocks of 20cm x 20cm and 3350 blocks of 15cm x 15cm were needed.
By 14 July 2014 a total number of 27 803 squares had been collected (according to the Yarn Indaba Facebook Page).
A total of 657 blankets were made which will be gifted to various charities when the Yarn Bomb is dis-assembled this afternoon.
So many beautiful, colourful blankets, worked together so neatly.
What an amazing privilege to have been able to witness this!!!!
I am one happy lady!!
OMG what a lovely sight! So much love in those squares. Hope many cold people get them in the end.
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This is just the nicest way to spread the crochet love!! So many blankets mean a lot of people are going to sleep warmer!
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ReplyDeleteHow awesome that had to be to see all that color in person.
ReplyDeleteI am so sorry I missed the YarnBomb, it must have looked too amazing!! But no matter, couldn't be helped .. I got to buy some nice yarn and spend special time with my Stellie!
ReplyDeleteIt was spectacular to see it in person! But spending time with Stellie is priceless!
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ReplyDeleteHi Zelina, wow what a magnificent thing to witness. I am South African and would have loved to have been able to see this. I have been intrigued by your last name and wandering whether you were from SA as it is a rather unusual way to spell it for being English. I also want to say thank you for all your contributions to my monthly mandalongs, you are a star!!! I am going to use one of your patterns again, I hope you don't mind, there are so many of your beautiful mandalas that I would love to make and this seems like the perfect opportunity to do it. I hope you are keeping well. Sending you much love Hannapat xoxox
ReplyDeleteIt looks amazing, I would have loved to have been there. :)
ReplyDeleteWow that's incredible! Well done everyone!
ReplyDeleteWonderful and thanks for the picture of you and your hubby. It's neat to get to see the face behind all the beautiful, colorful crochet. You are a pretty lady.
ReplyDeleteW.O.W.! This looks sooooo amazing! You are so lucky thaz you got to see it in real! ��
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ReplyDeleteI am glad to see there was still an area on the side for people to walk along the steps, it would be hard to see all that beautiful work walked on.
ReplyDeleteWow, that is so cool!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful! Thanks for the pictures.
ReplyDeleteThat would be so cool to be apart of!
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