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It took me some days to discover it, but once I did, curiosity got me. A tree with a knitted coat?
I asked Paolo, who lives parttime here at Santa Maria, "Listen Paola, I have discovered something strange with one of the trees out in the garden. A kind of knitted coat. Can you tell me more about it?"
Sure, Paola could explain. There are a lot of artists and artisans visiting Santa Maria, one of them a young student from Dresden in Germany. The knitted coat is her project and is meant to me good for the tree, especially in winter. The knitting is made to expand, to grow as the tree grows.
I love how this looks!!
Posted by: Susan May | 04/13/2017 at 10:20 PM
So do I Susan :-)
Posted by: BrittArnhild | 04/16/2017 at 08:26 PM
There was a project in Sacramento a number of years ago where a large group of 100 knitters, made "tree sweaters". Each knitter had five trees to knit for. The trees that line the street of midtown Sacramento are very old and large, so that was a lot of yarn and a lot of knitting. Each Knitter went and measured their trees and got to work. Each "sweater" was full of many colors and patterns. When all of the knitters had finished all of their sweaters they picked a date in October and at midnight they all went out and sewed their sweaters onto the trees. That is 500 tree sweaters! The next morning people woke up and when they went outside, all of the trees for blocks and block were dress in their knitted finery... For months, the group kept quiet so no one knew who had done this wonderful thing, but everyone loved it. Finally around Christmas the project and its creators were revealed. The sweaters lasted on the trees for a few seasons. On one block, they lasted for 5 years, because the people on that block decided to continue to repair them. Don't you think that was a wonderful surprise?
Posted by: Jane Hansjergen | 04/26/2017 at 04:55 PM
That was a wonderful surprise for sure Jane :-)
Posted by: BrittArnhild | 04/26/2017 at 05:04 PM