Love Your Bike and Crochet For It!

Spotted this week in front of the sports club where we go for Carolina's playgroup.

Love Your Bike and Knit For It!

Living in a city that is a heaven for cyclists with 50 % of the town's population on bikes, you not only make your bike more beautiful with yarn (blogged here), you also care for its safety.

With a bike lock covered with knitting.

I saw this bike (and the owner - a woman) for the first time last week in front of an organic supermarket and again yesterday at the Farmers Market. If there will be a "next time", I'll ask her about her bike lock.

Bike Spring Yarn Graffiti

New (yarn) flowers seen around town:

At the Oldenburg Farmers Market:

Pink Moment of the Week

... cherry blossom time, reminding me that it's been a year now since we moved into our house.

Spring Yarn Graffiti

Remember this yarn graffiti here from last September?

It is still there. The colours have faded a tad, but it has little spring offshoots now on one side.

 The fence is in front of a squat.

I took the next picture on my way home, it just reminded me so much of the crochet flower graffiti.

Pink Moments of the Week

Spring style:

Magnolia:

Start sewing with the children at the crafts club:

Crochet & Rock 'n' Roll

After the rock star wife, the supergroupie, it was now time for Miss O'Dell, assistant and friend to the rock 'n' roll stars. Between jobs as an assistant working for the Beatles' Apple Corps in London and touring with the Rolling Stones across the US, while house sitting Eric Clapton's place Chris O'Dell "took up crocheting to pass the time".

A couple of months later in LA, with her new friend cocaine she would do this: "I spent hours sitting in the living room, listening to music, snorting a line, and crocheting. Crocheting! Is was an obsession - I snorted coke, crocheted, snorted more coke, crocheted a little faster. What started off as a scarf that I was making for my father for Christmas became a twin bedspead, and then a double bedspread, and finally a king-size bedspread. I just couldn't stop." That was back in 1971. But if you ask me, I know this "I just can't stop"-obsession very well, and it doesn't take any illegal substances to come this high/far.

2013 - I am not experiencing this obsession lately while (still) knitting those socks...