Superhero's all round!

After completing my Ninja Knitting project, I went feverishly into a phase of making superhero related items.

It start with my husband who noticed a pattern for a Superhero in Simply Knitting 92, Spring 2012 by Alan Dart. 

I loved the pattern and set about make him his very own Superman by adjusting all the colours to match the famous superhero. There are always lot's of pieces when creating an Alan Dart creation but it's always worth it in the end. He is my Superman:

So after that a friend asked me to create some Golf Club covers so inspired by my recent creation and set about creating my own justice league golf clubs. I had seen someone else who had created them but I did make these up myself.

I created Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman. I was very please with the way they turned out and so was my friend. 

Finally after seeing my Superman a work friend also asked me if I could make a Spiderman for her little boy. I said yes without thinking about it, but the project was quite epic and lasted a lot longer than I thought it would! I had to do intarsia knitting and adjust again this time the shape of the head, but I completed last week!

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Shocking yarn bombing in Norwich

Oky, so I haven't blogged since March and this is totally shocking!

 I had almost forgot that I had created it! 

I apologise For my lack of commitment to the cause and will now over the next few days update you on the many knitted thing that have been completed since my last blog!  

I believe that I mainly got distracted by a very large project that reached it's completion in May, and other projects went on hold when I took this on. I believe now is the correct time to discuss this amazing feet that a small group of little knitter created. 

On 11th of May 2012  I became a Yarn Bomber!

Looking back my project did start at the beginning of April so this might be why it all went quite on the blog front. A small group of ladies so I knew and some I didn't came together through the power of social networking. We selected our target, the front of Norwich city hall and set about creating as much knitting and crochet that was possible in time to cover as much as possible. 

I decided to create a lamp post cover and using Entrelac in Norwich City Colours.

I had never done Entrelac before and what looks a really hard thing to do was really very easy, though I would have to consult the book again when I decided to do another piece. 

On May 11th we made our attack for the start of the Norwich Arts festival. It took many hours in the cold but it was completed we covered lamp posts, bins and even the main Norwich Lions. Here are some pictures!

It was the most exciting thing I think I have ever done! We even made the papers

Thank you to everyone who made it happen!