crazyheart
Yarnbombing
Posted on: 08/14/2013 12:40
Yarn bombing, yarnbombing, yarn storming, guerrilla knitting, urban knitting or graffiti knitting is a type of graffiti or street art that employs colourful displays of knitted or crocheted yarn or fibre rather than paint or chalk
Do any of you do it or seen it done?
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chansen
Posted on: 08/14/2013 16:14
This is all kinds of awesome. I recommend googling it.
Look! Tank cozy!
crazyheart
Posted on: 08/14/2013 15:05
graffitti that isn't permanent.
chansen
Posted on: 08/14/2013 16:13
Grannyz in 'da hood.
Represent.
Word to your great grandmother.
carolla
Posted on: 08/14/2013 17:33
I have seen it done - I love it! Some years ago a bridge in Cambridge ON was done - really cool! And a house on Toronto Island was done as an 'art installation' a few years back. I like it. I hope after the fact the yarn is made into something useful tho!
carolla
Posted on: 08/14/2013 17:34
I like the pom-pom hanging out the end of the tank gun! Nice touch.
Mendalla
Posted on: 08/14/2013 17:42
Tank cozies. Keeping your heavy armour and ammo warm since 2013.
Mendalla
somegalfromcan
Posted on: 08/14/2013 22:49
I think yarn-bombing is awesome! I saw it a couple of years ago when someone did a smaller project - they covered some railings outside of our local community college. It looked awesome and was kept up for months.
chansen
Posted on: 08/14/2013 23:14
Okay, but knitting is hardly a quick process. How the hell are they doing this? Leveraging the power of 100 knitters at a time and stitching it all together?
carolla
Posted on: 08/15/2013 22:28
Pretty much, chansen. Do you knit BTW? Wouldn't surprise me :-) I taught my husband many years ago, but he didn't keep going with it - prefers the noisier stuff!
chansen
Posted on: 08/15/2013 23:06
My wife learned to knit a couple of years ago. She's always done cross stitch and crochet.
I never really considered it a subversive medium, though.
Northwind
Posted on: 08/16/2013 00:47
I have heard of yarn bombing, and even agreed to help a friend yarn up her bicycle. She is in Fort Worth Texas and loved the idea of a Canadian contribution. I think I need to check in with her about this. I even saw a Canadian flag pattern that could be easily modified for the bike.
I haven't seen any yarn bombing in person.
Beloved
Posted on: 08/16/2013 23:20
Never heard of it . . . never seen it
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Arminius
Posted on: 08/17/2013 00:37
Yarnbombing? Yes, I heard of it. It is a particularly Irish phenomenon. Those who have kissed the Blarney Stone once too often bombard you with their yarns.
crazyheart
Posted on: 08/17/2013 10:46
groan............
Northwind
Posted on: 08/17/2013 11:03
Arminius, I have most certainly experienced that one! (I've got Irish blood....)
Northwind
Posted on: 08/23/2013 21:25
I got to see yarnbombing this week in Kamloops. It was awesome to see. As for chansen's comment about time, apparently different organizations were asked to contribute. The yarn store we visited did three trees. We saw that some trees were covered with old knitted or crocheted afghans. There were knitted or crocheted hats hung from trees with messages of "hats off to the athletes in the BC Senior Games". I enjoyed seeing this in person and would love to yarnbomb somewhere myself, or contribute at least.