Tree sock yarn bomb - Mark-It: Liverpool Street Art Festival

MARK-IT presents Liverpool’s first Street Art Festival, bringing you the best of local, national and international Street Art.

MARK-IT will turn the streets of the Baltic Triangle into an outdoor gallery filled with all sorts of delights : giant paper animals meandering through the streets, elevated bicycles of concrete and iron, splashes of animated gloriousness, corridors of woolly colour, dancers in shadow and tiny performers singing songs of love and loss in the cracks and crannies of our metropolis.

Investigate the world of the Hidden City this June and see the streets as never before!

Part of the Cultural Programme underpinning the International Festival for Business (IFB) 2014.

An there is a yarn bomb!! At 5am this morning a group of us met on Park Lane in Liverpool to install 44 knitted and crocheted tree huggers/socks!

The combined efforts of the Happy Hookers, Girl on Purl Action (me!), The Nordic Knitters , Crackin Crafting Community and some independent artists triumphed today, and Liverpool and the MARKIT Liverpool StreetArt Festival awoke to a woolly corridor leading people down Park Lane to Jamaica Street. 

Tree seam!

It was cold, we where tired, (special thanks here to The Baltic Bakehouse for providing us with much needed coffee and bacon butties this morning!) and bark can be scratchy to sew against but we where determined and the support from local passers by it went up in no time compared to what we originally thought. 

The tree covers are going to stay up for the festival this weekend (click the first link for a list of what's going on! Its pretty big!) and for the Liverpool Biennial before donating, what we can salvage and after a dry clean, to a few charities :)

There are signs up on the lamposts of Park Lane so you can see who did what and if you took part, where your tree/s are!

There's my logo!

I made 2, as did Chelle, and we have another combined one to go up at a later date! It was a lot of fun playing with the stripe designer online, the only downside was that Tulip is most upset that she is without a blanket so designing her her own! 

Perfect kitten blanket

A huge thank you has to be expressed to Karen Macfarlane for spending months of her life organising a lot of crafters, supplying us all with yarn, measuring tree's and sorting the whole thing out!

Hopefully you will all enjoy a little bit of colour for a few months and check out the festival!

One of my trees

One of Chelle's trees

My other tree

Me & Karen at 5am at tree no.1!