Worthing Fog and Fishing Nets

Worthing woke up in a thick layer of fog this morning. Visibility was just five metres ahead and made for an eerily still and silent walk through the park to school. 

Down at the seafront the foggy cloud was even more dense but gradually brightened without dissipating as a luminous white ball of sun rose higher in the sky.

  
Shades of oyster, lavender and grey were only broken by the sight of colourful rags of fishing nets and rope wrapped around the steel girders beneath the pier. Worthing Pier had been yarn bombed by the sea!

Yarn Bombed Trees in Worthing

It's been an unseasonably chilly month of June so far and even the trees in Worthing are wearing woolly jumpers, it seems.

   I cycled past this technicoloured tree cosy in the rain yesterday so had to return under blue skies to take a closer look. There are in fact three knit-adorned trees on the corner of Union Place and the A259, a spot that boasts a fine view of the ring road in front of Waitrose's car park and is next to a big boarded up space by yet another car park. The town's Conservative club HQ is opposite. It's a location that really benefits from some colour and cheer!

   I suspect this outdoor art installation is the work of Worthing's guerrilla knitters, though the piece is unsigned. The decorated trees surprised and delighted passers by.

Guerilla knitting on the streets of Worthing

I went out on my bike to photograph the early setting sun and stumbled upon a monumental piece of knitted graffiti on the seafront corner of The Steyne. The Steyne’s old red phone box is now wearing a huge woolly patchwork cosy, complete with a large pom pom on the top. Inside it’s filled with intricate crocheted flowers and leaves, handmade insects, cute rodents and even a knitted bird.
     This multicoloured knitted telephone booth celebrates the radical eccentric guerilla knitting of Magda Sayeg and the phone box cosies of London's Knit The City movement - it's a splendid sight and well worth taking a seafront detour for.
     Worthing's piece of kooky craft is signed Blueprint 22 and The Wool Bar. A bit of Googling tells me it could be the start of a big outdoor knitting exhibition in Worthing. I look forward to seeing more knitted graffiti on our streets!