The Big Night

It was Friday, it was tagging night.  It was also pouring rain.  All day... the rain had threatened to put off our big tag.

We had been planning this tagging night for more than a month.... there were potentially 23 people hoping to show up and help to tag our chosen location.  What would the rain do to our plans.

For a few days in advance, we'd been watching the weather report... in hopes of the report changing.  To our great dismay, it never did.

At 2:00 on Friday afternoon, it was suppose to be the peak of the rain... and all we could see was some light drizzling.  KnitMama made a decision.  The tag must go on!!!

The Plan:

Meet at 7:00 at Confederation Square Park... break off into smaller groups... tag the park and leave before we were caught.

Sounds easy enough....

What really happened:

We arrived between 6:50 and 6:55 at the park.  Knitting Mermaid, Knitting Wonder Woman, Little Knitter, KnitMama and I all got out of the van and got our stuff ready.

Our huge supplies bag

7:00 arrived and just like clockwork, some cars began to roll up.  Winged Warrior and Knitting BlackOps arrived first... very closely followed by The Detangler.

A much smaller bag belonging to The Detangler

Winged Warrior brought some unexpected news... circumstances had changed for many of the Kninjas... there were sicknesses and fussy babies (and a few who would melt in the rain)... our Kninjas were dropping like flies.

E.C.K.nista arrived shortly after and so did The Purl-ice, Mother Of Purl and TINKerbell.. along with a potential new Kninja who came to observe the antics.

E.C.K.nista takes some pictures while a group of Kninjas works hard behind her 

We were now a crew of 13 and we needed to get to work.

E.C.K.nista putting up a piece (look at our supplies in the backround)

Fast and furious we began to seam.

Mother Of Purl puts up a piece

The rain was pouring down.  The weather report had let us down... it was much heavier now than it had been earlier.  But Kninjas must complete a mission once started!

There was an emergency (probably mud related) and KnitMama had to leave her piece

We seamed while wet, we seamed around wet benches,

The Detangler is putting up hers and Knitting Yoshi's piece

we seamed the wet trees, we seamed with wet yarn and we succeeded.

Winged Warrior puts up Knitting BlackOps piece

Before we could walk away from our pieces, they were wet.

You can see how wet TINKerbell's label got

We ran into some obstacles despite all our Kninja skills.  We had camera batteries die, we had memory cards fill up,

Camera technology is a must with tags... we need to document our adventures!

we had fingers lose their fine motor skills being exposed to the elements for so long.

Poor Mother Of Purl could barely move her fingers by the end

The biggest obstacle though was Mother Nature.  With all the rain, all day long... Mother Nature had turned the park into mud.  Both Knitting Wonder Woman and I lost a boot in the mud puddle that will eventually be a bed of tulips.  Knitting Wonder Woman also lost her balance in the middle of the mud puddle and her Wonder Woman outfit lost it's red and blue luster and became a bit more brown.

There were numerous opportunities for people to catch us... but no one paid any attention.  We must have had 20 or so people wander past us on the sidewalk or through the park... not one passerby stopped to ask us what we were doing.  We hoped that the Man In The Tan Coat would wander through.... but alas, we did not see him.

But.. we survived.  We were in and out in 30 minutes and decorated the park with 17 pieces of art.  We left with no evidence the Kninjas had been there except for our art.

More pieces have been added since then... will still a few more possible ones to come.

If you are wanting to see our works of art.... for now you'll have to go and check out Confederation Square Park, Peterborough, ON... we're going to leave you hanging for pictures for a little while longer!

Follow this map to find your way to our tag