I wanted to make a knitted pumpkin patch
hello I'm Kristen and welcome to studio knit I am in my studio and so excited to
finally share my yarn bombing project with you I've actually been working on
this and secret for two full years so I'm excited to tell you all about how
this came about and my creative process bring you into the studio and then we
are going to actually build yarn bomb at sales force heart it's amazing it is
five stories high and it is right next to a fairly new building in San
Francisco called Salesforce tower which is now the tallest building in our city
and to give you an idea of how big the park is if you take Salesforce tower and
you lean it on its side the park is actually bigger than that so it's
amazing so when we were in the very early planning stages they invited me to
a hardhat tour so the park was totally under construction and I had the
opportunity to make sure I had all my safety gear on and to tour the park as
it was under construction and while I was there I saw all of these trees being
lifted by cranes all the way up and over into the park five stories high so once
I had the pumpkin patch idea then I went on to my computer and I created a
rendering using the photo of those actual three trees and designing how I
wanted it to look now I knew that I wanted the trunks of the trees to
resemble harvest corn that was something that my mom always decorated our house
with growing up and I just think it's so beautiful and pumpkins I love knitting
pumpkins you guys know that I have a great pumpkin knitting pattern that's
free I will put that in the description for you as well and they are 3d I did
not want just flat designs on the tree I wanted it to have depth and dimension
and interest in something that had never been seen before
so I presented my idea to the event managers at Salesforce Park they thought
it was great they did have one suggestion they said how are you going
to attach the pumpkins because if you attach them onto the vine maybe just
like by the stem people especially the kids are going to be very tempted to
want to grab it and try and pull it off the vine so I came up with idea for that
what I did instead of knitting all six wedges of the pumpkin
I only knitted five and then I cut felt and I sewed felt around stuffing the
pumpkin as I went so that I could create a wedge an empty wedge and I could put
it in sort of embed it into the tree so that took a while to figure out but it
seems like it's really working out let's get to the numbers of it all I have
knitted 48 pumpkins 25 of these little flowers and for the vines so many I
chords that if you string them all along it would be nine stories tall for these
three trees combined all of the yarn that I handed it 160,000 feet of yarn so
what and I spent well over 300 hours knitting if you are in the area the last
two weeks of October October 19 through the 31st please stop by take selfies
hashtag studio knit I'd love to see your photos
and I would love to see you there thanks for watching guys