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Here’s a project to watch:

Take a look at what our knitting brothers and sisters in London are
doing: an entire yarnified wedding, from cake to candles! Assorted patterns for flowers, doves, ham sandwiches and more (both knit and
crochet) included.

The Viennese art group Gelitin has designed and installed an enormous bunny (which was “knitted by dozens of grannies out of pink wool.”) on an Italian mountainside, where it will stay for the next 20 years.

Here’s the artists’ statement about the piece:

Rabbit
The things one finds wandering in a landscape: familiar things and utterly unknown, like a flower one has never seen before, or, as Columbus discovered, an inexplicable continent;
and then, behind a hill, as if knitted by giant grandmothers, lies this vast rabbit, to make you feel as small as a daisy.
The toilet-paper-pink creature lies on its back: a rabbit-mountain like Gulliver in Lilliput. Happy you feel as you climb up along its ears, almost falling into its cavernous mouth, to the belly-summit and look out over the pink woolen landscape of the rabbitís body, a country dropped from the sky;

ears and limbs sneaking into the distance; from its side flowing heart, liver and
intestines.
Happily in love you step down the decaying corpse, through the wound, now small like a maggot, over woolen kidney and bowel.
Happy you leave like the larva that gets its wings from an innocent carcass at the roadside.
Such is the happiness which made this rabbit.
i love the rabbit the rabbit loves me.

So there ya go.

• The story
• Gelitin’s press photos
• Another photo
• And a fascinating description of the “Gelitin Experience”

A new charity knitting opportunity supported by Knitzilla!

We are collecting 7inx9in squares to stitch into blankets to send to
Katrina survivors. The pattern is your choice, but please choose
washable yarns so the finished blankets can be washed at a laundromat
if necessary. We’re also looking for donations of cash or shipping to
deliver the blankets to those in need.

We also welcome donations of strips of squares knitted together, or
finished baby blankets, lap blankets or full afghans. Size and style
your choice!

Please join us at our Sunday Sew-Ups on Oct. 16 and Nov. 6th, 2005.
Time and location TBD.

For more information about the project, please see:

http://www.raincircle.com/afghan

Finished squares can be dropped off at a Knitzilla! Monday night
meeting in Silverlake. You also may drop off at That Yarn Store,
1578-4 W. Colorado Blvd., Eagle Rock 90041. Stay tuned for more
dropoff points. Or mail to our box:

Knitzilla!
4470 W. Sunset Blvd.
#107-223
Los Angeles CA 90027

We’ll keep you posted on other local collection points.

Knit happy,

Sedda K
Knitzilla ringleader

Does your stash include partial skeins or balls without bands? This is a very interesting series of articles about how to figure out the gauge and yardage of your unlabeled yarn: