- [Alice] Please welcome my friend Phil
(children saying HIYEE)
He's an international crochet artist and he's crocheted
these vegetable hats.
- [Maddy] They're so cute
- [Alice] I reckon you should put the pea on Phil
- [Phil] Oh yeah I'll put it on.
(laughter)
- [Maddy] It looks like what's his name, Yoda
- [Phil] Yeah it really does I know
- [Alice] What's your favourite thing about crochet Phil?
- [Phil] I think it's making something and then having an
end result that you can kind of enjoy and wear and have
fun with I guess.
- [Alice] What other vegetables would you crochet?
- [Phil] I think I've made a broccoli, tomatoes...
- [Alice] How good!
- [Lily] Do you start with a pattern like on a piece of
paper or something or do you just -
- [Phil] It's all in my head, so I just have an idea
and I make it straight away, I don't really think about it.
It's just like Lego, you put it all next to each other; you
already know how to make a house, you already know how to
make a car, so I just already know how to crochet shapes so
I just make them straight away.
- [Lily] How did you start becoming a specialist crocheter
- [Phil] Well I studied art and then I just taught myself
from YouTube how to crochet, and I kind of just took it
and ran with it and decided I wanted to make hats and
I wanted to make hats that looked like food so that's how
it started and I've never stopped.
- [Alice] Why did you choose crochet Phil?
- [Phil] Because crochet is kind of an easy way to make
shapes as opposed to knitting where everything is
kind of flat.
- [Alice] Look at Billy's hat!
(laughter)
- [Phil] You look like a little Yoda
- [Maddy] You look like you're Gandalf or something
- [Lucy] How old were you when you started crochet?
- [Phil] Like 19, 20; it wasn't that long ago.
- [Billy] Thank you for coming
- [Phil] It's alright thank you
- [Lucy] We liked you
- [Alice] Give Phil a big round of applause
- [Phil] Thank you guys, thank you for the
spontaneous interview
(laughter)
(peaceful music)
- [Lucy] Hi Anne! I brought some beautiful vegetables from
the market!
- [Anne] Oh great!
I've been working on the idea we talked about.
- [Lucy] Oh yeah, do you like the idea?
- [Anne] I thought it was fantastic.
And it got me thinking, I really thought about this
fantastic artist called Arcimboldo, and I thought I'm
gonna tell you about him.
So you might have seen some of these pictures I was just
going to show you.
This one's called 'Summer', and see how he's used all these
vegetables and things in his portrait?
So I thought, why don't we use vegetables and make a
portrait of Alice.
She has got a real sort of spirituality about her, and
vibrance, so I thought why don't we do a mandala on
her apron because I had drawn up this apron idea -
- [Lucy] Can you tell me what a mandala is?
- [Anne] Oh sure, a mandala is a thing from an old
ancient Tibetan language, and it means circle.
So that's why I've drawn a circle down the bottom, okay.
And in the circle you have a centre, and that's where the
inner peace is, it's all about the Buddhists think it's like
a thing they can meditate to.
And I thought for Alice, because she's so vibrant, if we
made it with all reds and yellows and really happy, strong
colours it would be fantastic.
Do you think that's pretty good? - [Lucy] Yeah
(cheerful music)
- I might need some more beetroot
- [Anne] Okay coming up
How's that looking?
- [Lucy] It's looking good, hopefully Alice will like it.
- [Anne] So we're going to use the mint, and we are going
to just make the mint as all the apron.
And that'll really make it smell good.
- [Lucy] That's actually looking really good!
- [Anne] Yeah it's looking fantastic!
(cheerful music)
Okay, what do you reckon?
- [Lucy] Is this gonna be her earring?
- [Anne] I reckon that's fantastic for an earring, do you?
What do you think?
- [Lucy] Wow Anne it looks wonderful I can't wait to
show Alice!
- [Anne] Oh great!
(phone rings)
- [Lucy] Hi Alice I have something to show you
- [Alice] Hi Lucy I can't wait to see it
(drumroll)
- [Alice] Wow! That's amazing!
- [Lucy] It is amazing, thank you so much for liking it.
