adding colour to the city

Alerted to what might be a memorable event by someone on Ravelry, G and I hied off to the Place de la Trinité this afternoon.

As part of the festivities for the Toulouse Carnival, a group of intrepid sewers and others decorated the square with large quantities of fabric.
 There were children festooned with colourful pieces of fabric, photographers, sewers, knitters and crocheters, and lots of curious passers-by.  A Queen had been selected, and rigged out in colourful garments (knit and crocheted from long strips cut from fabric), she climbed a ladder, and her train spread out behind her across the square.

Not much later, the fabric was all bundled up, the sewing machines removed, the ladders taken down, and the square was almost back to normal again.

Our first view of the event

If you look very closely at the left-hand edge of this photo, the Queen is being dressed (dark orange shawl)

Installed upon the ladder with her train being attached.

See the dress spread out behind her.

There's just something about sewing machines on a public square...

Even the concrete pylon things were dressed up.