Introducing Marcy Prochaska's Neat-N-Nifty Knitted Chair

As a follow up from a previously written post titled, "Calling All Knitters," you may recall the mention of a crafty friend who was preparing a nifty knitted style of a chair. At last, this knitted masterpiece is complete and we would like to give you a special sneak peek before it is on display for the upcoming town wide Chairs for Charity Parade.

Marcy Prochaska is a talented young woman who plays a hammered dulcimer professionally both locally and nationwide. Her music may be enjoyed from time to time from her community performances at her church, Culver's Coffee Company and Plymouth's Yellow River Festival. In addition to playing and teaching the hammered dulcimer, Mrs. Prochaska also enjoys singing, drawing, sewing and scrapbooking.

When asked about her unique approach to her chair, she gives attention to the guerrilla knitting phenomenon where people knit around trees, bike racks, railings, street sign poles, etc. She wanted to use her love for knitting with this project while maintaining the integrity of the chair's structure. She kept the material covering the chair as snug as a bug in a rug and has also made the seat cover removable, so that it could be washed.

When asked what were some challenges that she faced, she replies, "There were a lot of interesting challenges: choosing a yarn and guessing how much to buy, designing two-color patterns and learning to execute them, calculating just how to shape sleeves for each bit of the chair, sewing up seams on a large awkward heavy object." She adds, "I learned a lot through this project, and I'm quite pleased with the final result."

And we think you will join her friends' ooo's and ahh's as you take a look at this clever knitted chair piece!

If you would like to read more about Marcie's chair and see photos of how her craft progressed through the knitting process, click here>>>


This chair will be available to preview throughout June on the Culver and Plymouth town wide Chair Parade and will be available for purchase during the auction, on June 28th at The Culver Cove at 6 p.m. Tickets will be available in June or may be purchased at the door. Any artists donating a chair for this event will be awarded two free tickets to the Auction Gala!

Chair drop off is scheduled, rain or shine, Saturday, June 6, 2009 at either location:
Culver: 432 School Street
Plymouth: 203 N. Michigan Street