Warming the Frozen Balls of Haarlem

Jan.14, 2010

Knit Graffiti – me – Can I really do that?

Well it seems that I can. I was wandering around town as you do, with my best beloved last Sunday which was a freezing, bitter, bleak and cold day after installing the Tree Scarf and saw all the magnificent balls lining the side of the Grote Markt (the big town square) of Haarlem.

We went home and I rummaged and found yarns and started to knit a huge Ball Warmer. We have visited the balls of Haarlem in the dark cold evenings this week to check sizing as you can see from the photos. I went once during the day – that was take 1 – but there is no photo for take 1 as I couldn’t balance my bag, the camera and hold the piece over the ball by myself. So the rest was done under the cover of darkness just so that Best Beloved could assist the project. Under cover of darkness for you southern hemisphere folk – darkness now starts at around 5pm and Best Beloved isn’t home generally until around 6pm.

It is a very big ball.

Then on Wednesday evening – we went to install said Ball Warmer.

Thursday morning it was gone.

Can you believe that – we do know that a young couple took a photo while we were installing the warmer and maybe they have a really good picture of this piece of graffiti – which did no harm, didn’t damage anything and did warm a frozen Haarlem Ball however briefly.

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3 Comments for this entry

Katja
January 15th, 2010 on 12:20 pm
Brilliant Idea!! Didn’t all other stone balls get jealous not having got ball warmers too?
connie
January 15th, 2010 on 12:30 pm
I have considered that – and I think all Dutch knitters should have a ball each to warm – There are 25 balls in Haarlem alone. Maybe an exhibition of ball warmers at the beginning of December 2010. What do you think?
stiX
January 27th, 2010 on 5:49 am
Hi Connie,
I love your ball cosy! And it really does suck that it went so quickly… perhaps because someone loved it so much they wanted it for themselves?! Don’t worry too much, it lives on in cyberland.

And errrr… ’twas me who mentioned “Grannies who knit” and it wasn’t meant so much to reflect age so much as knitters who knit naff crap. That’s what I crusade against. Sort of. I reserve the right to totally contradict myself at any moment

Anyway, thanks for stopping by outdoorknit! xo