Wedding Tree in Old Poway Park

My most ambitious project to date - the Wedding Tree at Old Poway Park.  If you're ever in Old Poway Park, take a moment to enjoy it.  Take a picture and tag it with #weddingtree #oldpowaypark.  This park is a special place for my family, with memories of birthdays, lazy days, Civil War reenactments, Trainsong festivals, old fashioned-Fourth of July and Christmas.  Making the wedding tree hopes to keep the rustic, 1860's feeling.  When you're at the park, please also look for the Sweater Tree across the creek.   My friend Sara yarnbombed it.  She is an inspiration to me, as well as all the women in the Knitting Group.

Note: Material used is 100% cotton so that the tree can breathe!
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Fitting the pieces on the wedding tree

Fitting the pieces on the wedding tree

Fitting the pieces on the wedding tree

Tree of Love

Keeping with the theme of Old Poway Park

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Yarnbombing Makes My Heart Happy

Happy Fourth of July!

 Prettifying a drainhole in this California drought

Giving a plain tote some character

Shrouding my father's broken Crucianelli guitar

Shrouding my father's broken Crucianelli guitar

Giving a tote bag a new life

One day, this will hug a tree, or a boulder….

Repurposing old CDs

Yarnbombed Prayer Pole

Have you seen a prayer quilt? It has loose threads that can be tied in a knot, and as one ties a knot, a prayer is made. I can't quilt, but I can ‪#‎yarnbomb‬. We have a tipu tree that weathered a storm, and almost got uprooted in the last round of strong winds. Here it is in its wintering phase, buttressed by a few cinder blocks and staked. It looked so sad that I wanted to cheer it up. 

Succulents, Seashells and Yarnbombing

The evolution of a cypress hedge to a yarn-bombed succulent garden is an exercise in the pursuit of happiness.  It took my husband and son a few days to tear down the hedge and uproot the gnarly wood from the soil.  Then, I planted the succulents.  Each of my succulents came from someone I know - my mother, an aunt, a friend or a co-worker.  It reminds me of a gardener friend who once said that all her friends are like the flowers in her garden.  Each one is unique, and each one brings a different beauty to her life.   The shells came from beaches in San Diego, and from a collection of our travels along the coast when the kids were younger and we took a lot of road trips.  The sticks came from pruned branches from the bougainvillea and pepper trees from our yard.  I let them dry for a few weeks, then knit little skinny scarves to wrap them around.  Voila!  A year later, a garden that makes me smile!

Creating my own doodle

Yarnbombing

I've been knitting since I was eleven years old.  I have always liked creating things with my hands, and my latest passion is yarnbombing.  My local library had a campaign "Get Cozy with Your Library" for the summer reading program.  I first saw yarnbombing on trees while on vacation in San Luis Obispo.  Needless to say, I was thrilled at the concept of participating in a program like this.  That probably explains why I haven't quilled in a while.

Yarnbombing Day at Carmel Mountain library - mine is the middle loop and the pink/red/white loop inspired by Dr. Seuss' Cat in the Hat.

Our yarnbombing made it to the local newspaper!

“If you are cold, tea will warm you;
if you are too heated, it will cool you;
If you are depressed, it will cheer you;
If you are excited, it will calm you.”
- William Ewart Gladstone