Dear Readers,

I started a project about a year ago,where I wanted to try to knit the distance between Oxford Road and Piccadilly.I had just moved to Manchester and I was trying to illustrate my feelings about it within these two localized points in the city. It was a part of my course work for the artcourse I am doing. However, knitting the same thing day after day, as much as I enjoyed it,seemed pointless when there was so many different projects to participate on, and when all the equipment to experimental are available in the university,so I left this project aside for a while.

I have always wanted to go forward with this project,but I am struggling with time and I was wondering, for my academic statement for the project,what other dimensions does it have? As working with Artyarn, I have discovered new ideas to go forward with this labour intensive and ambitious craft. Especially when creating very big pieces,like this big knitted roll.
So I am now asking, if you the readers, would like to contribute for this project?

The roll at the moment is approximately 40 metres long, so about 960 metres of knitting to go. The piece is about 13 cm wide,knitted with 7 mm needles with 18 stitches and two double knitting yarns at the same time.The pattern is just knitting on both sides. This doesn't mean that participants have to knit with the same materials, just trying to give the idea of the thickness of the material. Acrylic yarn was colourful and cheap enough to work for this project, and as the piece is going to be rolled on the street to measure, I didn't want to use the most dearest of materials.

Everyone who contributes should write their names on a little fabric tag and sew this on to their piece they are contributing, this way everybody gets credited for their effort. Only rules for what the piece should be like, is that its 12-15 cm wide and strong enough to be rolled on the street. This project is ongoing,until the whole distance between Oxford Road and Piccadilly has been knitted.

The project has gained some interest from the media already, such as BBC and North West Visions. 

Contributions to:(with your name and where you are from, if wanted to be credited)

Valpuri Vihriala

E-mail me to the address below, and I will either send you the address to send the piece to, OR if you live locally,we can always meet up and you can hand me the piece that way.

More information: e-mail: rusakkokeitto@hotmail.com and mark the message "Knitted roll" as I am not opening messages which I don't know what they include. Please do not send images.