Supreme Overlords of Awesome
Tonight I had two missions and one accomplice. Together, we acheived awesome. It all started a couple of days ago when I found a cute amigurumi pattern for a birdie and made it with some scrap yarn. Digging for this yarn I realized just how much I had left of fuzzy yarn that had been used to make armwarmers and scarves and such in the past that I would likely never use. I decided it was time for another yarnbombing and began to brainstorm. Then I came across another cute pattern for Monokuro Boo piggies on Craftster and wanted to make them, using up some of the leftover acrylics I had in the back of the closet. After two days of straight crochet, I had two pigs, a birdie, a long handrail cozy and a target: The Children’s Hospital in Richmond. I dropped the toys there for The Toy Society and found while walking the grounds that there were no handrails to be found.
The hospital is fully wheelchair accessible, which is awesome and amazing, but a definite kink the plan. A few times while working on it, I had gone out with the manflesh to the store, and had worn the cozy like a scarf so I could walk and work on it at the same time. We had a new agenda with it: To put it on, scarf style, on one of the Monument Avenue monuments. We didn’t have room in the car for a ladder, and we were without a stepladder, so we cruised down the Avenue looking for statues with a people friendly height.
Most of them were totally inaccesible without a true ladder, but the one of Maury, was behind a four foot spiked fence, upon a five foot pedastal. It seemed to be the most accessible. On foot, the manflesh and I went rambling through the neighborhoods. Behind one house, we found cardboard and by a dumpster at a pizza place we found a milk crate. We grabbed them and went back. From there, we were a well oiled machine. The cardboard went over the fence to protect hands and feet, the crate gave us access over the fence and up the side of the pedastal to where the statue was. I think Matthew Fontaine Maury looks much more comfortable with a warm, fuzzy scarf made with love wrapped around his neck.
I think he looks amazing.
All in all, it was a successful night. Very close to the statue of Maury, there’s a statue of Arthur Ashe, with five children around him. The boy wants to learn how to crochet, so I just need one more person. I figure two scarves each, as well as a large cozie for around the pedestal, a big ladder and three people working in unison and we can pull it off. A friend of ours is learning to knit and crochet and I want to ask her if she wants to join in, but I don’t know. She’s really busy with things that she and her boyfriend are planning and working on, so I think it may be best for me to look elsewhere. Ha ha, maybe Craigslist!?
Maury, the warmest monument.
