Yarnbombing

In complete contradiction to my last post about yarn-wrapping (great comments by the way – I do think yarn bombing is evolving too!), Margaret from the UK sent us these photos of these sculptural yarn bombs (if I dare say, a bit reminiscent of Patricia Waller):

Cupcakes!

Crabs!

and, books!

And in other news, Occupy Berkeley is having a knit-in and needs your help. Here are the details as we received them:

We are encamped at Occupy Berkeley (San Francisco Bay Area). We planned this knit-in which got rained out, but there was so much excitement that we will do another. People were asking what projects we’re going to do. Some suggested yarnbombing which may well come into Occupy play. Meantime, though, people are planning to knit hats and scarves and mittens for Occupiers in colder places, already in contact with someone who visited us from NYC. The idea is that locals will drop by things they’ve knitted or crocheted, hopefully with a photo and note attached, and those not local will send c/o me and we will then do a media thing to get these solidarity boxes sent off to those braving yet worse conditions than we have with massive winds and pounding rains, and on the receiving end they can do another media thing about solidarity from the rest of us. You know that anything warm we can knit them they will use well, and enjoy.

We also are accepting natural fiber yarns and needles and crochet hooks which can be shared with novice knitters and crocheters to get them going.

If people want to help in this larger solidarity action, they can send things as quickly as possible to:

Occupy Berkeley!
2399 East1 4th St. #24
San Leandro, CA 94577

Ideally we’d have enough to send a first box in mid-December but if not enough by then, we can make them holiday packages.

Tags: Berkely, Occupy

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