Not related to the Camino in any way . . .

[Jeff Crawley]

I'm just bored waiting in for a parcel delivery but noticed this week that the Guerrilla Knitters are out again this year - do you get anything similar where you live? It used to be just pillar boxes but seems to have spread to posts and bollards.

 

[davejsy]

Yes! We have some amazing ones in Jersey. I will try to get a photo to post.

 

[Gerard Murdoch]

I'm just bored waiting in for a parcel delivery but noticed this week that the Guerrilla Knitters are out again this year - do you get anything similar where you live? It used to be just pillar boxes but seems to have spread to posts and bollards.

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[Gerard Murdoch]

This nice one in Erskine, Renfrewshire.

 

[Elle Bieling]

Not related to the holidays, and is crochet rather than knitting, but I encountered this on the San Salvador, just past Cabanillas. I consider these charming, rather than grafitti, but someone else may feel
differently.

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

We still occasionally see new painted rocks on our walks; the kind that were more numerous during the lockdown period.

 

[Jeff Crawley]

Not related to the holidays, and is crochet rather than knitting, but I encountered this on the San Salvador, just past Cabanillas. I consider these charming, rather than grafitti, but someone else may feel
differently.

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Charming, removable and not damaging to the tree - not graffiti,

 

[Jeff Crawley]

This nice one in Erskine, Renfrewshire.

Excellent workmanship!

 

[Anamiri]

I'm just bored waiting in for a parcel delivery but noticed this week that the Guerrilla Knitters are out again this year - do you get anything similar where you live? It used to be just pillar boxes but seems to have spread to posts and bollards.

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Guerilla knitters and crocheters

 

[Theatregal]

In September 2023, I loved seeing the yarn bombing 'flags of the world' pieces and others installed in the plaza of Moratinos created by the women of the village and knitters from different parts of the world.

 

[Silencio Por Favor]

I would say that this "thread" has me "in stiches", but I won't.

 

[Jeff Crawley]

As we're between Thanksgiving and Christmas here's my personal favourite from Christmas 2018 - a full roast dinner: turkey with bacon rashers, roast potatoes, carrots, Yorshire puddings, cauliflower . . . .



Oh and somebody DM'd and asked if the parcel arrived. It did at 7:30 in the evening (the driver was delivering from 7am until 9pm!

 

[Camino Chrissy]

As we're between Thanksgiving and Christmas here's my personal favourite from Christmas 2018 - a full roast dinner: turkey with bacon rashers, roast potatoes, carrots, Yorshire puddings, cauliflower . . . .

Jeff, this is a very amusing thread and so very interesting. I've never seen round white crochet sitting on top of something red. What is the red thing underneath? The "food" items are all so cute! Is this a yearly judgedUK event?

 

[Bradypus]

Jeff, this is a very amusing thread and so very interesting. I've never seen round white crochet sitting on top of something red. What is the red thing underneath? The "food" items are all so cute! Is this a yearly judgedUK event?

A UK post box. The round pillar is one of the traditional styles. The red colour is associated with the Post Office who also used to run the public telephone system so UK payphone booths used to be painted in the same bright red.

 

[Kirkie]

Then they swam across the Irish Sea...

 

[davejsy]

St Brelades, Jersey Christmas entry!

 

[Jeff Crawley]

Then they swam across the Irish Sea...

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Mmmn not sure that one is ripe enough! Even to my colour blind eyes it looks green!

This Maltese example though . . . like a blushing tomato

 

[Jeff Crawley]

Jeff, this is a very amusing thread and so very interesting. I've never seen round white crochet sitting on top of something red. What is the red thing underneath? The "food" items are all so cute! Is this a yearly judgedUK event?

I think they started out in London around 2010. We got them in Kent a few years later. It's a crack team of ninja knitters that sneak out at night at the start of December and they disappear around Boxing Day (St Stephen's Day). Last year my home town had about 27/28 haven't done the 2024 tour yet.
I think it's called yarn bombing in the US.

 

[Camino Chrissy]

Jeff, I just googled Yarn Bombing and a plethora of amazing photos popped up of colorful, creative ways people crochet and knit!
Unfortunately, I see no red socks in the bunch.

 

[Jeff Crawley]

A UK post box. The round pillar is one of the traditional styles. The red colour is associated with the Post Office who also used to run the public telephone system so UK payphone booths used to be painted in the same bright red.

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Things I learned today . . . originally pillar boxes were painted sage green but were too hard to spot so the Post Office changed to red! The rest, as they say, is history,

 

[Rick of Rick and Peg]

@Jeff Crawley started this thread, title "Not related to the Camino in any way . . ." to discuss the UK's Guerrilla Knitters. I'm here with a post that could be titled "Not related to Guerrilla Knitters ...".

For the non-native English speakers reading this know that the North Americans and British use the words post and mail in different ways, particularly the US Americans. Examples:

US: I'll mail this letter at a mailbox so the Post Office can use a mailman to deliver it to my sister's mailbox.

UK: I'll post this letter at a post box so the Royal Mail can use a postman to deliver it to my sister's letterbox.

Or something like that. See:

https://www.quora.com/Why-are-the-words-post-and-mail-used-so-differently-in-the-US-and-the-UK-Both-words-are-used-in-both-places-but-with-different-meanings-e-g-mailbox-vs-post-box-and-post-office-vs-Royal-Mail

 

[Camino Chrissy]

I'm here with a post that could be titled "Not related to Guerrilla Knitters ...".

A gorilla knitter.

 

[lovingkindness]

There is a moment along der Ökumenische Pilgerweg (Via Regia) where Guerilla-Stricken and El Camino do collide -or at least they did in 2019 when I straggled by ...As one rounded the St. Marien Domkirche in Erfurt into a little lane named Stiftgaße, a knitted yellow-on-blue scallop shell guided the way for pilgrims amidst a splurge of woollie red flowers, spiralling vines and knitted facial expressions in stocking stitch: perl-plain-perl-plain-perl-perl-plain or something like that, all lurching and leering from a tree trunk and a few cossetted lamp posts. No photo sorry, just hysteria

 

[lovingkindness]

Ps The scallop shell symbol for der Ökumenische Pilgerweg (Via Regia) sits proudly on top of a pair of golden knitting needles.

 

[Kirkie]

On a rather dreich morning, look what popped into view!

 

[Jeff Crawley]

On a rather dreich morning, look what popped into view!
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The nice thing is they seldom get vandalised. One in my town got stolen a few years ago and reappeared, freshly washed with a note saying sorry, a few days later. Word spread that the thief's Mum found out and made him put it back.