I saw this from the bus and photographed it through the windor. An entertainment for pedestrian shoppers and those passing on the bus. After a week or so without the toppers, I had missed them. Lovely to see them back.
Every one is different. I shall now look for some more. It is a British thing.
I wonder whether the idea will spread worldwide. I think it should. A real expression of creativity and public art. Something to enliven your daily walk. If you are on holiday overseas, show it to your friends, acquaintances, any friends who knit, crochet or like crafts, and ask them to show their local art or craft group.
The designs look impressive. If you google online from a laptop or your phone, you can find knitting patterns for toys and 3D animals, cartoon characters, all kinds of creatures.
I imagine that once you have tried a couple of basic patterns, you get the idea of how to knit or crochet circles, and spheres, ovals, change colours, draw faces to knit or embroider. Then you can start being inventive, and copy photos of events, turning pictures of animals and people and small cars and palaces and places, turning the flat photo into a 3D model or directly into a knitting pattern.
For a larger project, one person can create the design over the month. Or you could give each person in a group one part of the design. The teamwork could be a bit like the Bayeux tapestry, and the tapestry this century in Fishguard, Wales, which had panels done by different people, following the colours and stitching styles specified.
Rabbits
The toppers are seasonal. These for March, when springtime officially starts following the equinox, equal night and day, are rabbits, symbol of springtime, breeding. In the UK, we have chocolate rabbits in the newsagents, supermarkets and corner shops. Now, the same happy symbol on top of post boxes, too.
Post box toppers also celebrate sports wins, holidays, and joyful events.
The offical name is yarn bombing. The idea is relatively recent, and appears to have started in 2021. The items are attached to the top of the postbaox with elastic or cords or fence ties. You can find more pictures in my other posts. Also on Facebook.
Wikipedia Commons had photos of postbox toppers in Cornwall, London, and Norolk, and Scotland. Other yarn bombing has been done in Italy. In England to decorate the bollards . To cover pillars or lamp posts.
Even if you are stuck at home, you can travel the world's streets on the internet, enjoying the street art. Inspiring.
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