From cold stone to fuzz and fun for Jumpers and Jazz in July
TURNING cold hard sandstone into a warm and fuzzy sight that would make your heart sing is no small feat, but an expert team of knitters were able to pull it off.
After setting up their impressive Home Sweet Home exhibition in the Warwick Art Gallery, the Warwick Yarntopians took to the town's main building with swathes of knitted fabric on Thursday afternoon.
With many hands making light work, the display was up and ready for a sausage sizzle brekkie under the iconic palm trees in the centre of Palmerin St yesterday morning.
The musical delights of "The Wuppies” brought in the second morning of Jumpers and Jazz in July.
Yarntopians coordinator Loretta Grayson said the Jumpers and Jazz tradition of yarnbombing the Warwick Town Hall was now seven years old.
"The town is looking amazing the standard of work in the tree jumpers is just incredible,” Mrs Grayson said.
Recycled textiles from a previous exhibition were used to adorn the large sandstone columns of the Town Hall and the trunks of two large palm trees.
In the true attention to detail that makes Jumpers and Jazz what it is, even the bollards got rugged up.
Mrs Grayson said it was important to make the Town Hall stand out because it was one of the central hubs where visitors could go for information about Warwick and the festival.
