Lost Flowers [Montreal, Canada]

This knitting I had lying at home for quite a while. It is the result of using up remnants of wool by trying out all kinds of different patterns and simply sewing them all together at the end. Adding a few crocheted flowers made it look a little nicer ;-)



I had it with me when I went to Leuven, Belgium, but I couldn't find an appropriate spot where it fit around, so instead I left my knitting "Jacobsester" there. Across the atlantic ocean then, I found a very nice place for it in Montreal, Quebec. It is hanging at a public place where also a public piano is standing. When I was there, a woman was playing the instrument and the place was filled with a wonderful atmosphere which I found to be perfect for my yarn bombing.

As Montreal is full of all kinds of yarn bombings, also at the place where I left the "Lost Flowers" other knittings were hanging. Some of them had names and years on them. I first assumed that they gave hints about who made and left them there. Only later I found out, that these names depict women from the area around Montreal who were killed or are missing (for more detailed information read my previous post). This led me to give my own knitting the name "Lost Flowers".