Crafters and knitters get together and crochet pieces of art to cover public furniture or sculpture.

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My mom taught me how to crochet when I was about 20.

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Armed with crochet needles and scissors, the Secret Outside Crocheters and Knitters (SOCK) weaved their woolly magic on the promenade in Newcastle, County Down.

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These are generally not pop stars or movie moguls, but rather a crochet teacher, Rubiks cube master, and these basketball trick shot masters.

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My first piece was a crochet snowflake made with thread.

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Crochet was something that was easy for me to pack up and take while waiting for an appointment or waiting in Frankfurt Germany to catch a bus to our next duty station.

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She'd taught me to knit and crochet when I was six, and when I was eight, she'd brought me up here and taught me to target-shoot, bracing my arms on a wooden ironing board that she kept in the trunk of her car.

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She spends most of her workday in her living room, which is filled with colorful collections fresh flower arrangements, vintage cookie jars, gnomes, Russian nesting dolls, crochet-covered exercise balls and piles of Technicolor crocheted afghans, all of which serve as inspirations for the bright color mixtures in her art.

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