Whilst wandering around the Port Eliot festival a few weeks ago I stumbled across a woman up a ladder attaching a huge piece of 3D knitting to a tree. In any other circumstances this would have been a strange sight, but at Port Eliot anything goes.
It turned out Sophia Clist was creating an installation called ‘Purl’ for the Children’s Hospice South West Precious Lives Appeal. Supported by the Saltash Friends Group, she was asking passers by to make a donation and then write a hope, wish or dream on a strip of reinforced paper and attach it to the ever growing piece of knitting.
The result was a fantastic visual treat which, thanks to the Eliot family, will remain in the tree as a record of the hopes and wishes of this year’s festival goers.
It just goes to show, you don’t necessarily need needles and wool to get knitting.
