Discovery of Old Work

Today, I was busy around the house and then went for my morning walk around Kingston Road and down Randall Street.  While I walked past large businesses, I found a tree I where I had installed some knitted work of mine years ago; and I though the Logan City Council had removed it while they pruned the tree.  However, they haven't.  It's been there all this time; and it's still attached to the tree; along with the piece of leather I used to tag my work.  When I tried to remove the leather, I found I was attacked by a nest of ants who had made the knot in the leather their home. How's that for nature taking over where we had interfered?

Old Tree Art 

The New Tags and Anchors!

Today was a beautiful day to be out and about. And after the initial housework of laundry and putting away some wiping up was done, I grabbed some money and headed out the door. I was on a mission. I had a long way to walk and only about two hours to do my errands this morning. First thing's first, though. I just have to let you all know that the new tags are being tried out and the new anchors are now being used. I've been around to Triple B on Miller Road at Slacks Creek and they've been wonderful people to help me with my dilemma of people stealing the tags. When I showed the owner my work and explained what I was doing with it, and how the tags were being either stolen or not lasting long enough, he was good enough to give me offcuts of his work at no cost. After all, they just throw the metre long pieces of bootlace in the bin; and now there's place for it and it's on my art works.

So, here's some snaps of the new anchor and I've also added on a link to their website so you can see what Triple B does - besides supply me with offcuts. They are a brilliant leathercraft suppliers who also do work for the police and security companies as well. My family have known the owners for a long time; and so this is another reason why I chose them to supply me with the offcuts. I also promised to add their link onto my blog too as free advertising. In the next few weeks and months, I'll be adding onto the blog as I've been working on more and more swatches for trees.
In the last few nights, I've worked on one for a tree trunk instead of a branch; but it's in its experimental stages at the moment and I'm unsure if it'll work or not. Let's hope it does and I can show you what I've been up to. There's going to be other things coming onto this blog soon too. I'm researching knitting sites and have been talking to friends to get them to have a look at some of the things on here and my other blogs as well. So, with all this work happening, I'll busier than I have been in a long time. Keep working on what you're working on and happy knitting!

Randall Street Project

This one was kind of a challenge. I took a longer walk than usual and hunted for a little while for a suitable tree yesterday; finding one on Randall Street, Slacks Creek near the printing shop and post office on the corner. This one is on the 5th tree along; next to the driveway. It was a nice hot Autumn afternoon at around 2pm and I walked along Kingston Road for a little while before I found the tree I wanted. It was tall and the trunk was white and it was absolutely beautiful! But after crossing the road, I found - as I walked closer to it - that I had misjudged it. The tree was beautiful and sturdy and healthy. However, it was also too big for the piece I had planned to display. What a pity! Oh well, I may yet use this tree for another one... you never know.
Anyway, I looked across Randall Street and there they were. All in a row were short trees with their limbs all twisted this way and that. They didn't look strong, however, they had been pruned recently enough to show that I could attach my knitting to it. So, I pulled out my work and tried it out. Sure enough, it not only fitted, but it look wonderful!

This swatch took me a little while to do because I decided to make a pattern in it of either two pyramids or two solid arrows - whichever way you look at it. But it looks good winding its way up the branch, doesn't it. And it matches its surroundings. However, I lost my stitching needle.
(N.B: I found this needle only this morning at the post office. They had found it during their cleaning up just before they closed up yesterday; how fortunate that nobody - especially a child - had found it. I was very worried that had occurred.)

What I find ironic about these posts is that I'll compose them and put in the photos and all with the date I've place them, however, due to this site being American, it'll seem like I've time-traveled to the future and done this... hahaha. Nope. I'm in Australia doing this guys. So, please give it up to the beauty of the dateline... not me in a Tardis.

Enjoy and I look forward to my next installment.