I just had to start this new thread

[Penguinlady[$]]

I found this yesterday, AFTER I'd posted my gift to SantaWorm. It's so perfect that I didn't want it to get lost in the shuffle of Worm gifts, she said modestly.

Anyone who crochets - and that includes me - should bow their heads in awe at this.

But I can't figure out how the heck the creator of this grotesquerie pulled it off. Maybe Wormie Knows...



Ideas, anyone?

[thinkerlady[$]]

My guess is that it was done in pieces. Each color is a separate piece wrapped around the branch. They crocheted a square, and wrapped it.

Somebody has entirely too much time on their hands.

[Penguinlady[$]]

That's what I thought, but I think they also stitched the tubes together so they wouldn't slip and would look like one piece. But just planning this must have been an enormous task.

And...





WHY???

[theworm[$]]

Wowsa! I would never do that, and it's a LOT Of yarn. Even w/ cheap yarn thats an expensive project, but how friggin cool it looks!!! Winter makes everything sort of black and white and then you have this tree sweater....
Wow!

It's definitely crocheted? Not wrapped? I can't even imagine. It must be sewn on, but getting the measurements right for the changes in branch thickness is something!!!

[theworm[$]]

Neatorama » Blog Archive » Carol Hummel’s Tree Cozy.

On the most obvious level, it is a piece of clothing, personifying the tree and keeping it cozy and colorful throughout the year, enhancing the beauty of nature as well as the landscape of Northern Ohio.
On another level, the brightly colored crocheted cozy wraps the tree in personal and cultural nostalgia evoking memories of bygone times and places when life was good.
On yet another level, the cozy softens the strong tree form while also emphasizing it. It is meant to simultaneously caress and encase the tree. The cozy covering the tree fluctuates between comforting blanket and suffocating cover-up; it conceals as much as it protects; it hides as much as it reveals.

and look at this!

Remember how I said that once I’d had the idea to make a company logo dog sweater, I couldn’t NOT do it? I had another one of those tonight.
Outside our building is a sorry little sidewalk tree. At the height of summer, it had about five leaves. A dead glowstick has been dangling from its branches for three months.
Tonight while I was out on a smoke break, I looked at the tree and thought, “Man, that is one sad tree. It looks cold and wet and pathetic. It needs a sweater!”
I went home and whipped one up, it only took an hour and a half to knit. Then another fifteen minutes or so, standing outside in the cold at half past midnight, stitching it up.
If you would like to make your own little tree sweater, here’s my pattern!

How adorable!!!

[drmomentum[$]]

Reminiscent of the sort of marlinespike seamanship you see on the rail of a ship. There's a good chance this is that sort of knot-tying that we're seeing. It's a lot of work.

[theworm[$]]

the ones that I posted are crocheted and knit (respectively). That takes talent!
I just love the look. The big fancy one that Margaret posted is done in materials to withstand the weather.