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Calls to Action

October 27, 2012
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Did you see that we now have a Get Involved page? I’m placing calls from other yarn bombing groups who need knitters and crocheters to help them with their project. If you want to get involved, check it out, OR if you want to add something to the page, email me through the contact form [...]

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Calls for Craftiness

March 8, 2011

The mermaid in Vancouver’s Stanley Park keeps warm. Photo courtesy of Mary Alice Elcock. While we’ve been having so much fun working with Historic Joy Kogawa House and putting together their knitted cherry tree, my in-box has been filling up with worthwhile yarn bombing causes. While I promise to post more cherry blossom photos 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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November Round-up

November 9, 2010

Hola yarn-bombers! We have received a ton of email lately full of yarn-related goodness and we’re having a hard time keeping up so here is a round-up post of knit (and crochet) graffiti goodness of late: A Call for Assistance! Too shy to put your own tags up? The Calgary Artbomber has an international yarn [...]

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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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Stitches on the Bridge

October 28, 2009

Photograph from the BBC I’ve been waiting to see how the Stitches on the Bridge project would turn out for months now. Participants were called to knit or crochet items to be  joined and mounted on the bridge in order to create a colourful display of knitted pieces from around the world. All pieces will [...]

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Workshop at The Reach

May 13, 2009

Artist Barb Pearson. Photo courtesy of the Abbynews.com Photographer: John Van Putten. We will be part of a workshop with artist Barb Pearson at The Reach Art Gallery in Abbotsford on May 31st from 1 to 3pm. We hope to see some of you there! If you don’t live in British Columbia, or Canada for [...]

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Soundtrack

April 28, 2009

DJ photo courtesy of Steve Rhodes. Just when I think I’ve seen (heard?) everything, I find this. Yarn Bombing has a soundtrack – the ‘finest deep minimal techno mix’ presented by DEEP MIX MOSCOW RADIO. In other news, Magda Sayeg (recently interviewed here by the Gothamist) is at it again with another community project in [...]

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Generating yardage in NYC

March 31, 2009

Photo courtesy of Wonder Mike Spinners: Robyn Love has an invitation for you to join her in New York City: Spindle 7 – Guerilla spinning comes to the #7 train! Watch for it – any day, any time! Spindle 7 is an ongoing performance in which Robyn Love brings her drop spindle on the #7 [...]

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Yarn Bombing DIY Flickr Pool

January 24, 2009

The crafty ladies behind ArtYarn have done it again – they’ve started a Yarn Bombing DIY Flickr pool to collect work from UK artists (though I notice some names from North America too – so it looks like it is evolving into an international project) Check out the pool – I love this add on [...]

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