https://ourpermaculturelife.com/colouring-the-streets-with-collaborative-community-art/ Dive into a vast collection of free permaculture resources to help you get your permaculture life and edible gardens thriving with global permaculture educator & ambassador, Morag Gamble. Thu, 02 Jul 2020 01:15:32 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://ourpermaculturelife.com/colouring-the-streets-with-collaborative-community-art/#comment-946 Sat, 25 Jun 2016 15:13:31 +0000 https://ourpermaculturelife.com/index.php/2016/06/13/colouring-the-streets-with-collaborative-community-art/#comment-946 How wonderful. I just got a few balls of Bendigo wool yesterday – just in time for a new scarf. The first frost of the season covered my place this morning. Brrr…

]]> https://ourpermaculturelife.com/colouring-the-streets-with-collaborative-community-art/#comment-948 Sat, 25 Jun 2016 15:12:13 +0000 https://ourpermaculturelife.com/index.php/2016/06/13/colouring-the-streets-with-collaborative-community-art/#comment-948 Yes! I love that in NZ they are turning an invasive species (possums) into a luxury fibre that is appreciated worldwide. In Victoria, I love going to the Bendigo Sheep and Wool Festival where there is a whole area devoted to naturally black/coloured sheep and wool, and the craft competition requires that all entries use wool and other animal fibres. There was a lovely jumper there a couple of years ago, that had been entered in the very first Bendigo competition and was part of a historical display: a complex fair-isle jumper in very fine wool, in a variety of natural/undyed colours. So much detailed work, and so lovely! It was still in surprisingly good shape after 30 years or whatever it was.

]]> https://ourpermaculturelife.com/colouring-the-streets-with-collaborative-community-art/#comment-951 Thu, 23 Jun 2016 21:39:43 +0000 https://ourpermaculturelife.com/index.php/2016/06/13/colouring-the-streets-with-collaborative-community-art/#comment-951 Thank you so much for bringing this point to the discussion. You are absolutely right and I agree with you – it is so easy to be distracted by the flashy, the shiny, the colourful. The Maleny show certainly had it's share of acrylic textiles, but the ones I loved the best were the gorgeous subtle earthy colours of the hand spun and natural-dyed wools from both alpaccas and sheep. The possum wool was quite amazing too.

]]> https://ourpermaculturelife.com/colouring-the-streets-with-collaborative-community-art/#comment-952 Thu, 23 Jun 2016 21:35:25 +0000 https://ourpermaculturelife.com/index.php/2016/06/13/colouring-the-streets-with-collaborative-community-art/#comment-952 It was interesting to see this post after reading your one about Plastic Free July. I'm a keen fibre/textile crafter but I'm often concerned when I see "public fibre art" installations like the ones you show, knowing that most of them are made from petrochemical-based acrylic yarn. The most colourful and visible aspects of fibre art are often the most wasteful and destructive; meanwhile, people who (for instance) knit a normal-looking jumper from undyed wool from local sheep don't get noticed. I've recently noticed this at my part time, where a crochet craze has taken off and some women are spending their lunchtimes making brightly coloured acrylic scarves. Everyone one comments on them, but few people notice I'm wearing a scarf, socks, gloves, hat, or jumper that look sort of like clothes you might buy, in non-eye-searing colours like black or muted blue, that just happen to be handmade. I can't help wishing we would celebrate the natural and everyday-usable fibre arts as much as we celebrate the lurid and kitshy.

]]> https://ourpermaculturelife.com/colouring-the-streets-with-collaborative-community-art/#comment-985 Tue, 14 Jun 2016 07:26:32 +0000 https://ourpermaculturelife.com/index.php/2016/06/13/colouring-the-streets-with-collaborative-community-art/#comment-985 Wow, beautiful, I'm in gympie and would love to come next year, how do I find out when it's on?

]]> https://ourpermaculturelife.com/colouring-the-streets-with-collaborative-community-art/#comment-979 Tue, 14 Jun 2016 01:52:45 +0000 https://ourpermaculturelife.com/index.php/2016/06/13/colouring-the-streets-with-collaborative-community-art/#comment-979 It's great fun isn't it!

]]> https://ourpermaculturelife.com/colouring-the-streets-with-collaborative-community-art/#comment-980 Tue, 14 Jun 2016 01:52:22 +0000 https://ourpermaculturelife.com/index.php/2016/06/13/colouring-the-streets-with-collaborative-community-art/#comment-980 The basket workshop is 25 June in Mooloolah. $25. The artist is Pauline. Unfortunately I can't make that one, but look forward to the next. Pauline@visionwall.com.au

]]> https://ourpermaculturelife.com/colouring-the-streets-with-collaborative-community-art/#comment-981 Tue, 14 Jun 2016 01:51:07 +0000 https://ourpermaculturelife.com/index.php/2016/06/13/colouring-the-streets-with-collaborative-community-art/#comment-981 I suggest you like their facebook page (I linked to it in the first para of the post). Or, you'll find their contact details on the facebook page and ask them to put you on a mailing list.

]]> https://ourpermaculturelife.com/colouring-the-streets-with-collaborative-community-art/#comment-982 Tue, 14 Jun 2016 01:47:08 +0000 https://ourpermaculturelife.com/index.php/2016/06/13/colouring-the-streets-with-collaborative-community-art/#comment-982 Yarn bombing just makes you smile. Uncomplicated grinning happening from this post.

]]> https://ourpermaculturelife.com/colouring-the-streets-with-collaborative-community-art/#comment-984 Mon, 13 Jun 2016 21:26:31 +0000 https://ourpermaculturelife.com/index.php/2016/06/13/colouring-the-streets-with-collaborative-community-art/#comment-984 Oh wow – how amazing and colourful! I keep telling myself I will learn to crochet this year….. On the weekend my neighbour showed me a basket she made ages ago using branches and strips of the 'trunks' of banana trees which is incredibly tough stuff. I also want to try making a basket or bag from lomandra leaves. I have had a bit of a go at making the rope after reading stuff on the net but a workshop is probably a better idea. Are the workshops you mentioned open to people on other parts of the coast at all and if so would you mind telling me who I can contact?

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