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Make a Million Monster Feet – free pattern!

June 9, 2012
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In celebration of International Yarn Bombing Day, we are giving away the Monster Foot pattern from our book Yarn Bombing: The Art of Crochet and Knit Graffiti. This whimsical project is the brainchild of Chelsea Gunn who knit these with a footed American mailbox in mind. In Canada, our mailboxes do not have feet, so [...]

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YVR represents at Int. Yarn Bombing Day

June 12, 2011

It was my plan to blog all of the images and guest posts that I received all day today – unfortunately my home computer’s wireless shut down, so my posting is coming a bit later than expected. However, now that I’ve found an alternative computer – expect the Yarn Bombing posts to come this evening [...]

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Hello Spring!

March 27, 2011

For those who have been patiently waiting, more cherry blossom photos: If you live in the Vancouver area, the tree will be decorated until the first of March. It is located in the back alley of Historic Joy Kogawa House at 1450 West 64th Avenue. Photos by Jeff Christenson. A comprehensive set of photos of [...]

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With Thanks

March 7, 2011

Photograph by Jeff Christenson Thanks to everyone, near and far, who helped to make today’s yarn bombing at Historic Joy Kogawa House a success. More photos of the day coming soon!

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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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W2 writers series

February 24, 2010

Mandy and I will be giving a brief reading from the Yarn Bombing book at the W2 Writers Series tomorrow night: Date: Wednesday February 24th Location: W2 Culture + Media House 112 West Hastings Street across from the  Woodwards Building. Doors open at 6:30 First Reader 710ish Hosted by Sean Cranbury & Hal Wake Program: [...]

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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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Stitch and Bitch in Vancouver

October 30, 2009

We’ll be stitchin’ up a storm at the Davie Street Book Warehouse on November 5th from 7 pm–9 pm. Come by and get us to sign a book or just hang out and knit and crochet! All tags made will be added to Jessica Glesby’s installation at the Davie Village Garden.  Hope to see you [...]

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How we like to party

August 29, 2009

Now that the Yarn Bombing book is on bookshelves across North America (and headed over to the UK and  Australia), it is time to celebrate! The Ladies Fancywork Society, who kindly allowed us to interview them for the book and provided photographs of their beautiful crochet fancyworks, will be hosting a incognito book signing this [...]

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