Yarnbombing

From Laguna Beach, a larger-than-life American Spirit cigarette:

Images courtesy of Owel Wasn’t Here

Artist Owel Wasn’t Here says:
I have read a small handful of articles about knitta please, and the seed was sewn at the beginning of last year I started to dabble in yarn bombing. Only seeing colorful stripy bombings, I wanted to create something that was based on a real thing so I made a giant american spirit cigarette. Sitting around coffee shops bumming cigarettes off people (i don’t smoke) trying to explain that I need a “model” for my project.

The “Thunderbird” design (boy, oh, boy did those American Spirit smokers get touchy when i kept calling it an eagle ) took a nice chunk of the 40 hours just figuring out – finding the image, blowing it up, and then getting into a grid like pattern to crochet. I ended up finding a cross stitch website that would take any picture you have and made it a cross stitch pattern. Using a single crochet stitch for the whole made the pattern transfer super-easy. The gold band on the filter is cross stitched in.

The best gold yarn I could find was way too thin to crochet it in so I cross-stitched over the work, and then again, because even the doubled-up string wasn’t making the band strong enough.

Friends and family couldn’t understand how I could spend so much time on something just to leave it somewhere … and then I stumbled across your book! what a god send! not only could i now show people that what i was doing was real, or even what it was, I had gotten a crazy boost of inspiration. not knowing where to put my cig up I went off to measure and bomb smaller projects (including some from the book). Thank you for your collection of yarn bombings and artists, I no longer feel alone in my endeavors!!!!

Thank you Owel Wasn’t Here for creating a cigarette that even non-smokers can love. Smokin’ hot graffiti!

Tags: American Spirit, cross-stitch, Laguna Beach, Owel Wasn't Here

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