jumpers for trees and why eccentricity is a good thing

Skidder · 24 Dec 2012 at 10:02

I don't know what would posess someone to knit a jumper for a tree or bench but that is exactly what someone in my village is doing. Put a smile on my face and feels very british. Is eccentricity the soft side of mental illness or is it a harmless bit of self expression? Anyone willing to admit to being an oddball?

Cosimo · 24 Dec 2012 at 10:04

Oh large jumpers...

Just letting you know that the max size for pics is 1280.

~>Dg<~ · 24 Dec 2012 at 10:04

doesnt fit

Cosimo · 24 Dec 2012 at 10:05

~>Dg<~ said:
doesnt fit

In more ways than one.

Skidder · 24 Dec 2012 at 10:09

Will resize just uploaded straight from phone

dirtychinchilla · 24 Dec 2012 at 10:15

Haha that's brilliant! Finally taking a day off too, good for you.

PhillyDee · 24 Dec 2012 at 10:17

Thats not a jumper. Thats a neck warmer.

I am odd myself. Anyone who knows me can attest to that.

Eccenticity is just 'insane' with money.

V4NT0M · 24 Dec 2012 at 10:25

QUESTION THE CHILD!

wozzizname · 24 Dec 2012 at 10:26

Huzzah for British eccentricity !

http://thechapmagazine.co.uk/2012/12/new-edition-of-the-chap-goes-eccentric/

Castiel · 24 Dec 2012 at 10:31

My iPad has just had apoplexy......BIG jumpers!!!

Skidder · 24 Dec 2012 at 10:35

PhillyDee said:
Thats not a jumper. Thats a neck warmer.

If a person (or anthropomorphised tree) has no arms, is a neck warmer not a jumper?

4T5 · 24 Dec 2012 at 10:52

Don't like the Tree one, Hands of our Trees !!! :mad:

I like Trees.

Bench one is Ace though. :cool:

Bet some mental old woman is doing it, We got a few strange ones that wander around here, Squirrel lady being one of them.

mistercrabb · 24 Dec 2012 at 12:06

I think it's a bit of a new fad, a sort of legal graffiti I think, a load of bollards in Cheltenham had them on a couple of months ago.

Voltar · 24 Dec 2012 at 12:13

That's quite cool I think. Must be a nice place if it hasn't been graffiti'd or stolen or destroyed...

doofer · 24 Dec 2012 at 12:16

Urban Knitting AKA Yarn Bombing. What a waste of wool.

Skidder · 24 Dec 2012 at 13:42

doofer said:
Urban Knitting AKA Yarn Bombing. What a waste of wool.

Yarn Bombing ey, well you learn something everyday. I'm off to tapestry tag the library.

PapaLazaru · 24 Dec 2012 at 14:02

There is a 'collective' of these people. Someone has been doing it round my way for ages as well and they were interviewed on the radio, though their identity was kept secret. They liked to be known as guerrilla knitters.

4T5 · 24 Dec 2012 at 14:05

PapaLazaru said:
guerrilla knitters.

Founder of the Group

Derek W · 24 Dec 2012 at 14:10

jumpers for goalposts, nothing else

Antar Bolaeisk · 24 Dec 2012 at 14:41

I remember there was a Vodafone ad a couple of years ago where they did this. Think it might have been in Galway as I recall seeing a sculpture covered in knitware.