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Knitting with Joy

January 28, 2011

Thanks to everyone who came out last weekend to make cherry blossoms for the Historic Joy Kogawa House Yarn Bombing. We had a great turnout of enthusiastic crafty-types and Historic Joy Kogawa House has been receiving lovely pink blossoms in the mail. We can’t wait to sew them all together and onto the tree! Here [...]

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Textile Tee-pee

October 11, 2010

A crocheted tee-pee from Arlene, created by the StytchFace crew

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Simply Unpredictable

March 31, 2010

Work by Banksy. I’ve given a lot of interviews in the past year about our book Yarn Bombing and the knit graffiti movement and there is one question that every reporter asks me: “What is the future of yarn bombing?” Each and every time this question stumps me. All I can say is that the [...]

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Woo-tastic

February 1, 2010

I was running errands with my partner Jeff this afternoon, and we walked pas the Davie Street Village Garden (home of Jessica Glesby’s knitted wall)… I looked up, and suddenly it was raining cats and dogs…literally…. A delightful parade of  little cats and dogs encased in crocheted raindrops. The handiwork seems to be by WooWork. [...]

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Happy Holidays!

December 25, 2009

Mandy and Leanne will be taking some time away from blogging to enjoy the holidays, knit up a storm, and rest up with family. We’ll be back with yarn bombing goodness the first week of January 2010. In the meantime, we leave you with some random y-bomb links to round out 2009: Yarn bombing puzzles [...]

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A Flutter of Butterflies

November 4, 2009

If you are driving around the Fraser Valley (that’s in British Columbia, Canada),  you may notice a flutter of woolen butterflies. Danielle of DeeDee’s Devotions, has been adorning trees with little creatures. She says: I decided to do crocheted butterflies so I dug around online and found a simple pattern. I swear all I do [...]

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Robyn Love talk in NYC

May 6, 2009

Knit and crochet Artist Robyn Love (of Crochet Me a Pencil (see video below), the Knitted Mile, and Spindle 7) will be speaking at the Lion Brand Store in New York City tomorrow night: She will be giving a talk about her work, and the work of three other artists: Elaine Reichek, Janet Morton and [...]

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‘Scarfing’ Denver

May 2, 2009

Embedded video from CNN Video. The Ladies Fancywork Society on CNN. They were also featured in an article by the Colorado 9 News last month, which has some great quotes from the group.

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Black ‘n white, and read all over.

March 1, 2009

I’ll admit it, I’m still on a stripe kick. I’m quite enamored with textile artist Sara Noble’s Zebra Pole. Crochet out of plastic shopping bags, it has been hanging the south of England for a few weeks now: Images courtesy of Sara Noble Sara says: I walked out my flat last week trying to think [...]

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Yarn-tastic

February 23, 2009

Image by Shayla Perreault Newcomb, found via Grrl+Dog Wow – I’ve just looked at the work that has been created by contributors to Grrl+Dog’s Global Guerilla Knit Up. The work is amazing! Over the past few months I’ve been asked a few times how I think knit and crochet graffiti will evolve, and if it [...]

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