Knitting is for everyone!

The Knitted Garden is proving to be a very popular exhibition. Visitors young and old are fascinated by the wonderful creations of Griffith Natty Knitters - the vegetable garden, flower beds, and Griff the dog. Even the gents are getting into the spirit and practising their knitting!

 

Image courtesy Emma Williams

 

Don't miss your chance to see this exhibition at Hurstville, as it must close this Sunday 24 June. The Museum & Gallery is open Tuesday to Saturday 10.00am - 4.00pm and Sunday 2.00pm - 5.00pm. We will have volunteers on site on Sunday - why not come along and knit with us! And after the exhibition closes, you can enhance your skills with a number of books available at Hurstville Library, including:

How to knit by Debbie Bliss

Big book of knitting by Katharina Buss

Knitting over the edge by Nicky Epstein

The Knitted Garden has arrived!

The Dragon’s Lair Gallery has been transformed into a magical garden display, which includes flowers, vegetables, animals, and teddy bear’s picnic scene – and they are all knitted! The exhibition was created by the Griffith Natty Knitters group, and was first exhibited at Griffith Regional Art Gallery in 2010. It took 2 years, over 25,000 grams of yarn, and the input of hundreds of people to complete. The Knitted Garden is artwork of a different kind – and you can see the hours of painstaking work that went into creating each design. Some patterns were developed through trial and error, or were sent through from friends and relatives overseas.

The exhibition will be on show until Sunday 24 June, and volunteer knitters will be onsite most afternoons and weekends. Why not join Penshurst Purlers as they knit squares for Wrap With Love on Thursday 21 June from 2.00 – 3.30pm? For bookings or further information, please contact the Museum & Gallery on 9330 6444 or by email.

You can see the exhibition during our opening hours Tuesday – Saturday 10.00am – 4.00pm, Sunday 2.00pm – 5.00pm, and other times by appointment.

Dragon’s Lair Gallery
Hurstville Museum & Gallery
14 MacMahon St, Hurstville

Photographs courtesy Griffith Regional Art Gallery