WARWICK is going jumper crazy for this year’s Jumpers and Jazz in July Festival – even the art gallery is getting into the act with a little yarn-bombing.
The Gallery is presenting Knitchen during the festival this year.
Knitchen is only the quirkiest and most amazing yarn-bombed kitchen project to ever hit Warwick’s Jumpers and Jazz in July Festival!
This year the Warwick Art Gallery and its volunteers have decided yarn-bombing a tree was just not enough – these guys have decided to bomb everything including the kitchen sink (literally).
That’s right they have yarn-bombed a whole kitchen.
Yes, expect a full-scale yarn-bombed kitchen in the gallery foyer.
The Knitchen idea, formulated by gallery director Karina Devine, has evolved into a full-scale installation project.
Co-ordinator Sue Marshman said the volunteer team has its hands and knitting needles full.
“It is a challenge, but I am excited. I like the fiddly bits,” Sue said.
Sue was responsible for last year’s hit yarn-bombing project On the Road with Nursery Rhymes and Fairy Tales, which enthralled visitors to Rose City Shopping World.
With 25 people involved in the project so far the team continues to receive knitted kitchen items weekly.
“We come up with these ideas, someone says they will do it and they come back with the most wonderful things.
“Sometimes we have no idea how they do it,” fellow co-ordinator Loretta Grayson said.
The Knitchen will have everything including the kitchen sink, salt and pepper shakers, with a knitted roast chook on the menu from one of the more ambitious creative team members, Pat Benkendorff.
Even the sauce bottle and the sugar bowl will be yarn-bombed with a marching army of crocheted ants spilling from within.
Knitters have also been busily creating floor tiles to cover the two by four metre foyer space.
To follow the progress of the Knitchen just search on Facebook for Jumpers and Jazz in July or telephone the Warwick Art Gallery on (07) 4661 0434.
