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 Magda Sayeg’s latest project in Austin Texas via FullyFlummoxed.
A Brooklyn knit tagger caught in the act via camera phone.
Opportunities to get involved
Einav, who writes the blog ‘girl with a crappy camera’, is making a yarn bombing documentary! She’s currently in Tel Aviv, and expects to eventually make it to North America. Check out this short clip from the film on yarn bomber Veronica Darling. Grrl+Dog will be in the film as well! If you do knit graffiti, you should get in touch with her.
Alisa is creating a yarn bombing installation at the Textile Museum of Canada, and wants you to contribute: If you are interested in submitting knitted, woven, quilted or crocheted items such as flowers, swatches, granny squares, amigarumi, etc., please mail them to the address below by May 15th!
Check out the teaser yarn bomb that she created last week. A beauty:
More information here: http://fibreperson.blogspot.com/2010/04/yarn-bombing-at-textile-museum-of.html
Corporate yarn bombing
The Vodafone offices were hit in Maastricht yesterday by ConnieLene. Funny, because Vodefone Ireland was the company who created knit graffiti cell phone commercial (seen here via Knit Hacker). I know a lot of folks in the UK were choked that knit graffiti had been co-opted this way, but in my North American perspective, as you’d never see such anything so risky and fun here, I find it charming. Maybe it’s just my love of cute accents.
There has been a bunch of knitted adverts around lately including this natural gas commercial which is beautiful and cinematic and very European (you can also watch the making of the commercial here.).
Oh wait, I stand corrected that you’d never see knit graffiti commercially co-opted in North America. PixieKnit just sent me this from Montreal:
She says:
It’s an advertising campaign for Le Lait, the dairy farmers. They organized a ‘soirée réconfortante’, so a comforting evening at the old port. They served hot coco and played a classic children movie outdoors called ‘La Guerre des Tuques’. Don’t you think that the winter hats totally coopted knit graffiti?
Definitely not hand-knit.
Knit graffiti as an advertising medium, is this the beginning of a trend?
