Connecting & Painting Community
Breast Cancer Awareness Crochet Car
- Date
- 2026
- Medium
- A full-size car covered in crochet
- Location
- NMB Centennial Festival and North Miami Beach Library, Florida
- Partners
- North Miami Beach Library
- Participants
- The women of the North Miami Beach Library crochet group
A car covered from bumper to bumper in pink crochet, made by the women of the North Miami Beach Library crochet group as part of Connecting and Painting Community. It was first exhibited at the North Miami Beach Centennial Festival and then shown at the North Miami Beach Library through October 2026.
Next stop: Healing Stitches. We want the car to keep working, as a joyful centerpiece in the lobby of a South Florida cancer center, with free weekly crochet circles for patients, survivors, caregivers and staff, led by Alicia María Vallejo and the women who made it. Each participant learns a granny square and takes home a starter kit, and the squares made during the month become a blanket or wall panel the hospital keeps.
Cancer centers and sponsors who would like to host the car or support the workshops: please write to us.