Vancouver

End of Summer Yarn Bombing Round-up

September 24, 2012
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Feeling chilly? It went from summer to winter overnight in Vancouver. Out come the sweaters and the long, lingering memories of summer: In Whistler, BC  a bike was covered with cloudscapes and mountains and trees. Very West Coast – Knitty Gritty! [More information on this project here] Strangely, Yarn Bombing was featured on the Today [...]

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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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Global Yarn Bombing Round-up

April 12, 2011

Canada Calgary Congrats to the Calgary Art Bomber and the Happy Hookers for the successful installation of the traffic barrier project this week: Image courtesy of The Calgary Art Bomber Downtown Calgary should be looking a lot brighter! British Columbia Further west, yarn bombing has appeared in the Ski Resort of SunPeaks, BC: Image courtesy [...]

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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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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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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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Talking about yarn bombing

October 4, 2010

Mandy and Leanne will be giving a lecture on Yarn Bombing at the Burnaby Public Library. Further details at www.bpl.bc.ca/events Enough about us. Rebecca sent us this wonderful wrapped post from Fremantle, Australia. Rebecca reports: Hulbert Street in Fremantle, Western Australia about two weeks ago. Yarnbombing has been going off here in Perth, I’ve been [...]

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Fuzzy Parking Meter

September 1, 2010

Peter Regier sent me this great photo taken in Vancouver’s Chinatown: This wooly meter only lasted for a day, so I’m glad that he managed to capture it! I wonder if it was done by Janna? There’s lots of yarn bombing happening on the Western half of Canada. There have been a series of yarn [...]

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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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