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W2 writers series

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

W2 Media Centre

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:

Opening Remarks: Sean Cranbury

Introducing Honoured Special Guest Michael Nichol Yahgulanaas who will showcase a video/interactive discussion about his work.

From there we will go to a streamlined line-up of 5-7 minute readings from our writers including two breaks.  Like this:

Rhonda Waterfall
Weldon Hunter
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Break

Steven Galloway
Leilah Nadir
Alex Leslie
Caroline Adderson

Break

Leanne Prain & Mandy Moore aka The Yarn Bombers
McKinley M Hellenes
Timothy Taylor
Brad Cran

Here’s a video about the series: http://realvancouverwriters.com/2010/02/19/cool-video-about-w2-real-vancouver-writers-series/

Plus, there will be prizes, a cash bar, and  great art and photography on the walls.

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A Night of Social Crafting

Monday, January 18th, 2010


Dolls by Mia Hansen. Image courtesy of the Vancouver Museum.

If you are in the Vancouver area, Mandy and I will be signing books at the Vancouver Museum this coming Thursday, January the 21st. Come see Yarn Bombing contributor Knit Girl give a talk on craftivism as well as many other crafty-related events. From the official press release:

A Night of Social Crafting

Come celebrate the creativity and community of the growing DIY craft, art and design movement in Vancouver.

Generously sponsored by OPUS and Blim, there’ll be materials and workshops in a range of art and craft media from paper to yarn. Workshops (listed below) will begin at 8pm. There will also a mini Got Craft market, along with music, snacks and local brews.

Activities are geared so that everyone can participate – from the craft newbie to seasoned creators.

Blim: button-making and screen printing workshops

Knitgirl: Knitting and Craftivism

Kirsti Wakelin: drawing/ exquisite corpse.

If you’re super-proud of what you make at DIY@MOV, MOV is providing exhibit space so that your creation can be on public display in a museum. Think of the bragging rights!

$15 – Tickets available online or at the door.
MOV Members Free

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Happy Holidays!

Friday, December 25th, 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 and charms Christmas shoppers in Ecucha

Art Yarn’s Yarn Forward project grows and grows.

The BYOB crew (Bombing Yarn Over Bend) offers instructions via Cyclocross magazine on how to cozy up your bike.

Tasmanian Renegade Craftivism

New crochet yarn bombing blog: Crochet the Day

Memory through knitting: the Elegant Spider remembers the victims of the Commemorates Victims of the École Polytechnique shootings in Montreal through yarn bombing. Watch the video here.

You have got to love husbands who leap from the car to take photos of yarn bombing! Via Twitchy Fingers.

Macleans Magazine pronounces Yarn Bombing part of the lingo that made 2009. We like to be topical.

We are looking forward to 2010 and lots of new knitting and crochet madness! Happy holidays dear yarn-bombers, stormers, and wool enthusiasts…here is wishing you a warm and wooly season, and fresh new things to cast on in the New Year.

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A Flutter of Butterflies

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009

If you are driving around the Fraser Valley (that’s in British Columbia, Canada),  you may notice a flutter of woolen butterflies.

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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 is make butterflies these days. I think by the time I finish yarnbombing butterflies I’ll have made about 110. I put up about 50 today.

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Props to Danielle’s dad who also has helped her install the butterflies. This picture makes me smile:

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Dad and I also went to Central Community Park and pinned up a bunch of butteflies there. Dad was surprised by a lady who shouted “Is that Yarn graffiti?!” ha ha! He said it was so she hopped over the fence and grabbed one of the butteflies. Apparently she heard about yarn bombing on the CBC and by the way she jumped and waved at me (Dad told her I was the one who crocheted them all), she was pretty darned excited about it!

In other news,

KnittaPlease has posted a submission call for knit graffiti photographs for a new book that will be coming out next year (found via the Subversive Yarn Network)

There will be a Yarn Bombing Stitch and Bitch event at the Davie Street Book Warehouse this thursday evening. Come one, come all!

On twitter? Don’t forget to use #yarnbombing so that we can find your knit graffiti posts!

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Stitch and Bitch in Vancouver

Friday, October 30th, 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 there!

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PS: This event is B.Y.O.H.A.N.Y (Bring your own hooks and needles and yarn).

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Hey, that’s my bike

Sunday, October 25th, 2009

A few people have asked to see more of the bike that Mandy and I decorated at Word on the Street. Here are some photographs of the completed BMX:

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Our knit and crochet bike is a homage to the many artists who have created textile bikes. Most famously, Janet Morton’s Sweater Bike…

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Sweater Bike, 2004 by  Janet Morton

See more of Janet Morton’s work here: http://www.arts.wisc.edu/artsinstitute/IAR/morton/samples.html

and Theresa Honeywell’s knitted motorcycle which we feature in the Yarn Bombing book…

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Image copyright of Theresa Honeywell

There are also striped bikes, white knitted bikes, bikes with knitted serpentine handlebars, and lovely crocheted bike seats.

And if you like your knitted bikes tiny, Instructibles has published a tutorial for a wee knitted bike: http://www.instructables.com/id/Bike-Love/

What are your favourite examples of textile-wrapped bikes?

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How we like to party

Saturday, August 29th, 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 coming Friday, September the 4th at Fancy Tiger Crafts in Denver, Colorado. If you are in the ‘hood, be sure to check it out! Mandy and I sure wish that we could be there!

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For those closer to Vancouver, Canada, Mandy and I will be having the official Yarn Bombing book launch at Three Bags Full knit shop on Main Street on September 17th, beginning at 5:30 pm. There will be yarn bombing stories, tasty snacks, and lots of mayhem! We hope that you can join us. More details to come on the launch soon.

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Pic-Knit in Surrey

Friday, August 7th, 2009

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If you happen to be in Surrey, BC this weekend – drop by the local museum and meet us! (By the way, that’s in Canada – I don’t want to confuse our readers across the pond) Mandy and I will be speaking about our book and knit and crochet graffiti at 3 pm at the Surrey Museum.

Our talk is part of a day of yarn related events. Here is the official press release of the museum:

Join a summer picnic of knitters, crafters and suppliers in the Surrey Museum.

Watch demonstrations, get tips and learn tricks to inspire your own yarn craft.

Shop for your stash at our Fibrearts Marketplace.

Visit with llamas from Fat Chance Ranch.

Tour the Museum’s Textile Studio and the Hooser Library to view our extensive collection of weaving samples and rare textile books.
Saturday, August 8
11:00am-4:00pm
Drop in, by Donation at the Surrey Museum
17710 – 56A Avenue

For information, call 604-592-6956

Entrance to Museum galleries by admission fee.

We will also be signing copies of yarn bombing – get yours fresh off the press!

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The Book is Here!

Thursday, July 23rd, 2009

Leanne and I with our spanking new book!
photo by Janice Beley

When Leanne and I went for a meeting with our publisher on Monday afternoon, we never suspected they’d surprise us with a stack of our books! We thought it was still being printed, and that we wouldn’t see it until September. We’re so thrilled with how it turned out, it’s absolutely beautiful!

It will soon be widely available, but you can buy a copy today from Arsenal – they’ll include one of the cute yarn bombing buttons Leanne designed.

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Mini buttons!

Monday, March 30th, 2009

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Mandy and I had a great time at Fibres West. We met a lot of great people and came home with more wool than we arrived with. There were spinners, there were llamas, and there were a whole bunch of people who seemed really receptive to yarn graffiti. It was a fun day.

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For the event, our publisher helped us make some snazzy mini buttons. We have three slogans:

‘Yarn Bomber’
‘I love subversive crochet’
‘I love guerrilla knitting’

I have about ten complete sets left which I’m giving away to the first ten people to comment and leave us a link to a piece of yarn graffiti!

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