Stitching up the NGA!!

My friend C sent me this via email and I thought it was such a great project that I'd blog about it here.

The National Gallery of Australia wants to transform its front entrance and foyer by covering it with knitting pieces!! Here's the excerpt:

From Tuesday 7 to Sunday 12 July, Knitta Please founder Magda Sayeg and Sydney artist Denise Litchfield, with a team of volunteers, will transform the front entrance and foyer of the National Gallery of Australia. Knitta Please is a tag crew of knitters who turned their frustration with their half-finished knitting projects into a phenomenon sweeping across the world.

Knitters are invited to help create pieces that measure 10–20 cm wide and 140 cm long, which will be stitched together to create coverings for 6 large concrete poles at the front of the National Gallery of Australia. Any colour, yarn and technique is accepted—the brighter and wackier, the better!

So you send in your knitting piece before 7 July to:

Knitta Project
Public Programs
National Gallery of Australia
GPO Box 1150
Canberra ACT 2601
AUSTRALIA

OR drop it off at the front security desk of the NGA.

Make sure you include with your knitting piece a small note stating your name, location and age (optional) because each knitted strip will have a small label stating the maker’s details.

Knitta Please covered an entire bus in wool at Plaza Luis in Cabrera in Mexico City in 2008.
Photo by Magda Sayeg, founder of Knitta Please

This is such a cool project that I think I might have to just take out those knitting needles again and make a strip! I'll see too if my daughter may be interested in putting in a strip with her finger knitting.

The project website is: http://nga.gov.au/WhatsOn/highlights/default.cfm

To see other Knitta Festival events, visit: http://nga.gov.au/EXHIBITION/SOFTSCULPTURE/Default.cfm?MnuID=9#knitta

Can't wait!