Globally renowned luminaries convened for an evening event at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art on September 12, 2018. We partnered with Raiola Co. Event Design to hand knit a large 10- x 40-foot drape screen. Our task was to create a focal point using a sustainable material in line with the event’s sustainable ethos,
Two string art installations from 2015 where organic and geometric forms interplay: A Major Minority at 1 AM street art gallery in San Francisco, CA and Surveillance at Claremont Art Studios in San Mateo, CA. Acrylic yarn and escutcheon pins. For more examples of our work, see our portfolio. To get in touch about a
Custom string art mural reception wall activation Located at N3twork HQ in San Francisco, California 30 x 8 ft Acrylic yarn and escutcheon pins All design and installation work completed by Lorna and Jill Watt of Knits for Life.
Knitting the Commons: Colorful Chameleons We yarn bombed two more clusters of sycamores in Civic Center Plaza, San Francisco as sea otters and chameleons for the Trust for Public Lands to celebrate the grand opening of the twin Helen Diller Playgrounds. This brings the menagerie to five different animals and 13 trees in total, not including
(Update: parrots removed January 2018, octoupses removed July 2018.) Knitting the Commons is a temporary art project that aims to ‘knit’ together over 80 trees throughout the Civic Center Commons (the Commons) in San Francisco, California. The Commons is the new name for the three blocks between San Francisco City Hall and Market Street, including
Two filet crochet portraits of our grandparents, Robert and Catherine Watt. On view in the exhibit Thread Around Holes at The Lace Museum in Sunnyvale, California until October 31, 2015, after which they will be available for private viewings at Claremont Art Studios. Read the full story of these pieces here. Stats Mercerized cotton thread, size 10,
Mort, a knit albino Burmese Python yarnbomb installation at Gensler Architecture and Design’s San Francisco headquarters. For Gensler’s fiber art show Naught February 12 – May 12, 2015. Read the full story of this yarnbomb here. Stats: 36 feet long, 10 inches around Made of 1.7 miles of yarn 80 h to design, construct, and
Self-published crochet pattern for a monkey toy in two sizes. We originally designed this monkey for this banana tree yarnbomb at a preschool in San Mateo, California. Download the crochet pattern in the shop here.
Knit and crocheted yarnbombed school gate at Turnbull School in San Mateo, California for a community wellness festival. Read the full story of this project here. Stats: 12 feet tall Made of 2.5 miles of yarn 1 week to design, construct, and install On view here April 2014 to present
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