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January Round-up: Part 1

January 10, 2012

It’s time for a January Round-up where I go through my inbox and send you links to amazing things that have been floundering in the shallows of my email archives. Here are the beauties that I have unearthed today: Joann spotted these statues at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby (Canada) today and send these photos [...]

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Yarn bombing Public Transit!

December 12, 2010

Andrew, a local yarn bomber here in Vancouver, BC, contacted us with a few picture of his recent bright orange tags! I’ve been crocheting for about 5 years now and sewing for the past year. I totally support the arts and am going to be yarn bombing all over Vancouver, so hopefully you can spot [...]

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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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Interview with the Knitorious M.E.G.

June 2, 2010

The Knitorious M.E.G. of the KI D2 crew in Richmond, Virginia answers my pesky questions. First Anniversary Pom-Bomb, K1-D2, 2010 How did you get into knit graffiti? My father passed away few months after we’d learned to knit and formed K1-D2 [Knit 1, Drink 2].  As a tribute, the other members secretly teamed up and [...]

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Long time, no see….

April 25, 2010

Wow, yarnbombing.com has been quiet this past month. Sorry about that folks…Mandy has been busy with loads of knitted design work and I have been getting ready to write a new book….if you are into embroidery, check out my submission call at www.unexpectedembroidery.com. Onwards to actual yarn bombing news: Nice little interview and pictures of [...]

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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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Wool on wheels

February 19, 2010

(Mitten photo courtesy of Lady Ducayne) Machine knit Vancouver 2010 mittens are worn by lots of folks, including dinosaurs (why is this image not licensed under Creative Commons? I need it). Oh yeah, did we mention that we’re living in the middle of an Olympic city? In addition to some knitting controversy, the Olympics have [...]

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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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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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