The KNIT CamBRIDGE project is the brainchild of Sue Sturdy, an fiber artist based in Cambridge, Ontario. Cambridge used to be a major textile production and manufacturing hub in Ontario, and her project was designed to mark and remind residents of that often-forgotten history. The idea was simple: cover Cambridge’s historic Main Street bridge with textiles – specifically, knitted textiles. (Although some crochet did sneak into the project, the vast majority of the thousands of pieces were indeed knitted.) The work started in April of 2009, and was completed on September 11, 2010, when 16,000 zip ties ...