Help Your Tree Survive Winter With a Treesweater
by Kara DiCamillo, Newport, Rhode Island on 03.29.06
Talk about creative and artistic! This cute story came from a knitting blog and, quite simply, made us smile.
Remember how I said that once I’d had the idea to make a company logo dog sweater, I couldn’t NOT do it? I had another one of those tonight. Outside our building is a sorry little sidewalk tree. At the height of summer, it had about five leaves. A dead glowstick has been dangling from its branches for three months. Tonight while I was out on a smoke break, I looked at the tree and thought, “Man, that is one sad tree. It looks cold and wet and pathetic. It needs a sweater!” I went home and whipped one up, it only took an hour and a half to knit. Then another fifteen minutes or so, standing outside in the cold at half past midnight, stitching it up.
Check out Erika’s blog for the overwhelming response from her readers (and the media). You can even find the sweater pattern to knit a treesweater for your own little tree-in-need. "Hug a tree, keep it warm for a moment. Knit it a sweater, keep it warm all winter." Via ::Shea Gunther ::Erika’s Knitting Blog
Haha! That's great. Although my cat missing a front leg would be jealous of that tree's sweater.
Interesting... do trees acually need these things? Maybe I'm missing a joke here!
Nicely symbolic!
Nick, I don't think it helps the tree at all, but it reminds everybody who see it about protecting trees, and that they are alive.
that's adorable!!
I'm not sure why,but something about Erika's though process,regarding the tree,made me think of the comedic style of the late Mitch Hedberg.
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mitch_Hedberg
very nice ^_^
something even better though:
sweaters for things that need to be kept warm but can't afford sweaters (like poor humans)
An old Philadelphia friend and artist, Bill Scanga, was doing this back in 1994 as scuplture. It's funny to see it re-surface...
Here's a link to some images:
http://www.frederieketaylorgallery.com/cgi-bin/wrk_res.pl?arti=sca&sz=200&cl=2
It's a sweater...
... on a tree.
*walks away*
haha i might aswell buy it abbsolutly brill. dis roks
Hi I think thats a great idea we should definately help trees.
Did you know that if you get to 100 years old you have to plant 700 trees in your life time.
Cya Later peoples.