The Crochet Coral Reef installation is over and has been taken down…  good news is it is not over!  Glenys is keeping our Seagardens Aotearoa project alive. 

A bit low res, but here is a photo of the Crochet Coral Reef at the Auckland Museum.  The exhibition will close on the 16th of May so you have a few more weeks to contribute and go and visit, also entry is free until the end of May this year for lucky Aucklanders.

Here are a few photos of the new pieces I have completed…

I’m just so excited about this one, the Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef project is at Auckland Museum right now!  This afternoon I dropped in to do some work with the lovely ladies busily hooking away and spreading the stitchy love.  I brought in with me the little one above, I had finished it off today and couldn’t wait to see how the project was growing.

So if you are even slightly crafty and nerdy, or into maths or art, or craftsy community projects, or the environment and ecology (that should actually be all of you) best you get yourself along to the Auckland Museum over the next few weeks to have a look at the crochet coral reef that is growing on a wall in the oceans gallery.  Better yet, take your crochet hook and some fibre and get making!

For a really good clip about this international project (and a much better explanation about the mathematics behind the hyperbolic plane than I can give you!) go to this TED talk.

How cute is this flyer??

Crafternoon Tea is coming up again so put it in your dairies and get yourself along…

Saturday 16th January 2010, from 10am-3pm at the Holy Trinity Church, cnr. of Sandringham and New North Roads in Kingsland.

So I found in one of my small boxes of goodies that came from my nanna a little project – making a cloth out of crochet pansies, forty odd pansies, yellow and purple, the box also contained incomplete instructions.

As I tend not to be a pattern follower, rather than attempting to complete the project, I would like to make a necklace or some other wearable piece out of them, but I’m kind of nervous about doing anything with them just now!  Quite lovely holding these pieces from one of my nanna’s own projects, they probably haven’t been looked at for more than 20 years.