Hello Austin Knitted Wonderland!

Photo taken and shared by Shawn Thomas.

Photo taken and shared by Patrick.Larson.Photography.

Apparantly this public knitta display is happening in Austin, Texas right now until March 18th! 99 trees covered in beautiful  yarn.  This is the work of KnittaPlease (Magda Sayeg) – more details here and here. (Via WhipUp via knitkacker.com).

Jan Halvarson

15 comments:

Amy Nieto said...

Oh my so fun!!!

EE said...

What a color!! :)))

inge said...

O i like such project !! colorful days ;-)

Anonymous said...

love it!, Imagine a full forest of tree cosies :-)

Anonymous said...

there's no adjectives to describe how I feel about this! just... wow

Annika said...

This looks so fun! I feel like I want to recreate the project and surprise the people on my street!

Unknown said...

looks great I wish all tree would look like that, I'm sure it would brighten up the winter

memegalarce said...

WOW!! that is soooo inspired...I love yarnbombings :D

Jan Halvarson said...

Annika, wouldn't that be fun?

Sierra said...

I'm a huge fan of KnittaPlease and this is awesome!! I just sent a message to my sister who lives in Austin...if she has not already seen it, she must!

Violaine said...

Fabulous !

nanne said...

they do tree cozies here in columbus, indiana too!! it's great to see the color and imagination on the trees of the main street of our town in the dead of winter...plus, the trees look cozy and warm.

Unknown said...

This is my son-in-law's sister, Magda. She has some amazing projects - before this she did an installation in Rome.

:) Laura

P.S. I have a photo of her at my daughter's wedding on my blog - http://www.paringdown.com

Anonymous said...

I was just in Austin a week and a half ago and I TOTALLY missed this. How is that possible? Ahhh!!! I want to make the road trip back down again just to see this. Amazing.

jafabrit said...

Just BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!!!!!!!