Postbox Cosies

[Tempest63]

The post box outside of the town Post Office had a nativity scene cosy on it on Monday. I didn’t think of taking a photo.

 

[SimonBurchell]

Here's one I came across in the cloisters of Gloucester Cathedral:

 

[Recycled1]

I agree with Herr Cloaca. It's a waste of good yarn, and must soon get wet and dirty.
I belong to a knitting /crochet group, and we're given yarn for free. Go into a wool shop and see how expensive it is to buy new!
We make hats, scarves and blankets for various charities (old people, the homeless, boxes to go to children abroad, charity shops etc)
Time and resources put to good use.

 

[Frideswide]

I didn’t think of taking a photo.

well go back and take one! Honestly, some people... just can't get the staff... youth of today...

 

[Tempest63]

well go back and take one! Honestly, some people... just can't get the staff... youth of today...

I try my best not to go into town. It’s full of …PEOPLE!

 

[Frideswide]

I try my best not to go into town. It’s full of …PEOPLE!

I understand this conmpletely. Stand down!

 

[merricat]

Here's one I came across in the cloisters of Gloucester Cathedral:
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Has Joseph caught covid?

 

[Bad Bungle]

Don't know what the cosy on the postbox in Aylesbury yesterday signifies, but it looks fun.

 

[Kondoru]

Im almost certain my knitting friend is not responsible for this.

However she only ever works in natural fibres and wouldnt waste such things on yarnbombing

 

[hunck]

Im almost certain my knitting friend is not responsible for this.

Are you sure? - can you interrogate her & report back?

However she only ever works in natural fibres and wouldnt waste such things on yarnbombing

Like wool you mean..

 

[ramonmercado]

kylie on top.

Kylie Minogue has been recreated out of wool ahead of her headline performance at Radio 2 in the Park.

The Australian popstar - with hits like I Should Be So Lucky - is among the acts due to perform at a music festival in Leicester next weekend.

The figure features on a postbox topper in Syston, Leicestershire

. It was made by the mystery craftsperson known only as Syston Knitting Banxy (SBK) as a welcome to Minogue and the other acts. Previously, SKB has made toppers for events like the Queen's Jubilee and Remembrance Day. She has also created the cast of the BBC show Ghost and a tribute to the actor Stephen Graham.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-leicestershire-66755043

 

[AnonyJ]

I have a friend who, living near a cycle- and footpath that has a goodly number of bollards, every year decks them out as a nativity scene. The BVM appears pregnant until Christmas Day, when she is proudly holding the baby Jesus

 

[Eyespy]

Several villages round here decorate their bollards, one had a knitted animal trail, complete with zebra and what might have been a giraffe.

seems fairly harmless way to jazz up ugly street furniture, most of the yarn decorat is reused or recycled.

 

[hunck]

Nairn goes Christmas cosy crazy

Yarnbombing knitters in Nairn in the Scottish Highlands have covered the town with their Christmas creations.

Crafters have joined forces to make a patchwork Christmas tree, 18 post box toppers and decorated the church with knitted angels.

Project co-ordinator Caroline Mackay said she first began making the toppers in lockdown after becoming "fed up of blankets".

Since then, she's set up Yarnbombers Nairn, a community of committed knitters and crocheters, who display their work publicly several times a year.

This year, they have helped the knitters of Nairn Old Parish Church decorate the building with hundreds of knitted angels.

After Christmas the church plans to give away angels as a goodwill gesture, to people who need a "blessing" in their lives.

Video at link.

 

[Analogue Boy]

There’s some of these on postboxes around by me in the Midlands. I think it’s the WI flexing and flagrantly demonstrating their power across the UK.

 

[Mythopoeika]

There’s some of these on postboxes around by me in the Midlands. I think it’s the WI flexing and flagrantly demonstrating their power across the UK.

Yeah. They're almost as powerful as the UN or the WEF.

 

[Tempest63]

Yeah. They're almost as powerful as the UN or the WEF.

Or the illuminati

 

[gordonrutter]

Nairn goes Christmas cosy crazy


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Video at link.

One of them is 30 years old!

 

[hunck]

One of them is 30 years old!

And is the only male in the group.

 

[brownmane]

Nairn goes Christmas cosy crazy


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Video at link.

I want the grinch and his pooch.

 

[Cloudbusting]

There’s some of these on postboxes around by me in the Midlands. I think it’s the WI flexing and flagrantly demonstrating their power across the UK.

I've heard they're going to be the antagonists in the next series of Line of Duty.

 

[Mythopoeika]

I've heard they're going to be the antagonists in the next series of Line of Duty.

More like 'Aunt Agonistes', perhaps.

 

[gordonrutter]

And is the only male in the group.

For purpose of avoidance I was referring to one of the knitted items. However there is a young male who is a member of the group, he happens to own the only wool / knitting shop in Nairn...

 

[hunck]

For purpose of avoidance I was referring to one of the knitted items. However there is a young male who is a member of the group, he happens to own the only wool / knitting shop in Nairn...

Oh, right. I assumed you were talking about a knitter, not an item. His age wasn’t mentioned but as he said, he’s several decades younger than the women.

 

[Cloudbusting]

More festive yarnbombing - this time a play on the 12 Days of Christmas. Without wishing to sound mean, the partridge (see below) kind of reminds me of an animated dodo. The people are definitely better (more photos in article).

BBC news article - Haughton knitters give village a woolly Christmas makeover

 

[brownmane]

More festive yarnbombing - this time a play on the 12 Days of Christmas. Without wishing to sound mean, the partridge (see below) kind of reminds me of an animated dodo. The people are definitely better (more photos in article).

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BBC news article - Haughton knitters give village a woolly Christmas makeover

I especially like the purple drummers with the fuchsia and red details

 

[Eyespy]

There’s some of these on postboxes around by me in the Midlands. I think it’s the WI flexing and flagrantly demonstrating their power across the UK.

Whilst many WI members are knitters and yarn Bombers, not all Yarn bombers are WI or even (identify as) female. Some of us can't even knit.

However they are a power to be reckoned with, representatives are everywhere not always in plain sight. Be careful what you say.........

 

[Analogue Boy]

Yes. It’s a well-known fact they taught commandos everything they knew.
Crocheted sock + dynamite + jam = Sticky Bomb.

 

[Tempest63]

I didn’t know whether to post this here or in the “Our Streets, pubs and Clubs are Not Safe” thread. But there is a postbox cosy robber active in Leigh on Sea…how low can you go?
Knitted postbox toppers stolen in Leigh-on-Sea https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-68360464

 

[RaM]

It has happened 2 or 3 times round here, in one case a Mercedes pulled up
in broad daylight and took it, Police were given the number and it was
traced to somewhere in the midlands, but even with cctv it never came back.