Some things just make your heart sing.
I, like many of you I dare say, have been following the Yarndale mandala project over on Attic 24.
For those of you who haven’t yet come across it, you can read all about the project here, but to summarise for the time-poor, Lucy who writes the blog Attic 24 had the idea to make a crochet mandala art installation for Yarndale, a festival of woolly delights in Skipton, Yorkshire happening on 27th & 28th September 2014.
In order to gather sufficient mandalas for the project, Lucy put a call out to her blog readers to crochet mandalas and send them in to her.
And send them in they have: she has received around a thousand of them, from about 50 countries across the world!
I have been browsing these beauties on Pinterest and they are just wonderful.
So many variations on a theme…
It is almost like looking at people’s faces in a crowd: they all have the same basic characteristics, but each one is utterly unique.
I wish I could see the installation when it emerges.
It’s going to be amazing.
But it is unlikely I’ll make it to Skipton. I shall have to content myself with ogling mandalas via my computer screen.
Why not pop over to Yarndale’s Pinterest boards – and marvel. ♥
Wowee – this is wetting my appetite for Yarndale – they do look goooooood together!
Am going to have to try and make Yarndale lol
I wish I could! I don’t even knit or crochet, but it looks like it’s going to be a brilliant event.
So good of you to collect these so we can see them from home!
Hi Pam, if you are on Pinterest you can see loads more mandalas on Yarndale’s boards
Your mandalas are beautiful… love your choice of colours. I will be at Yarndale if I can get accommodation, any suggestions!!!
Hi Valerie, I’m glad you like the mandalas! I can’t take credit for them though, they were made by lots of different contributors – I just compiled the pictures from Pinterest into a collage.
Maybe if you contact the Yarndale Facebook page someone there might be able to suggest something with regard to accommodation? You can find the page here. I wouldn’t know where to suggest as I don’t live near Skipton where the festival is taking place.
What a delight for the eyes – utterly fabulous – thanks for sharing!