Yarnbombing

Photo from Strickbombe (Germany) ‘Do what it says on the label / Einfach die Anleitung folgen Read. Pretty obvious concept. I put this tag up outside a charity secondhand book shop. Grosse Erklärungen erübrigen sich, oder? Ich hab’s vor einem awo-Bücherladen aufgehängt.’

Check out more about this tag at http://strickbombe.blogspot.com/2010/01/read.html. She talks about her favourite knitting books, reading, and knit graffiti.

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A new year is well underway (hello 2010!), and I’ve been seeking out new knitting inspiration – luckily the internet and the world of knitters, crocheters, and blog writers always provide. Here’s the latest round up of yarn graffiti links:

• New photos of yarn graffiti at the National Gallery of Australia: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationalgalleryofaustralia/page25. (scroll down)
• Cute indoor yarn bombing with flowers and pom poms: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sbristow/4293458441
• St. Louis represents: http://www.flickr.com/photos/artfinder12-2/4285661744/

Waldorf school image from Ourhub.com. Provided by: Nancy Taylor

• Wow! A Waldorf school in Denver created a yarn bombing project with students, and it is a beauty: http://denver.yourhub.com/Denver/Stories/School-News/Story~718191.aspx.
• A yarn bomb on Westminster Bridge: http://www.flickr.com/photos/22360009@N07/4284652489/
• Nifty slideshow over at the Pattern Project: http://patternproject.tumblr.com/post/344683594/living-in-a-city-that-the-average-temperature-is
• Another knitted motorcycle, this one cute and colourful, over at the University of Portsmouth: http://www.flickr.com/photos/create_up/3635734971
• If you are looking at attempting knit graffiti for the first time, Instructables has a set of step by step instructions to get you started: http://www.instructables.com/id/Yarn-Bombing. I really love the last photograph of the knitted shopping cart.
• And, if you are looking around for silly things to hide about in, I’d suggest that you consider the Skeletoque, aka the Skeleclava (http://www.instructables.com/id/Skeletoque-aka-the-Skeleclava/).

I’m feeling really inspired by the patterns that people have been knitting from the Yarn Bombing book, such as:

1. Weird and Twisted’s rectangular tags and mushrooms: http://weirdandtwisted.blogspot.com/2010/01/more-yarn-graffiti.html
2. New Zealand’s Fibre Alive has made tons of tulips and mushrooms for the Greytown Arts Festival and our annual Garden Party at Scarlet Oak Cottage: http://fibrealive.typepad.com/fibre_alive/2010/01/another-year-is-dawning-oremus-hymnal.html
3. A version of our tree sweater created by the staff of 88 Stitches in Langley, BC: http://www.88stitches.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=113&Itemid=39

I love how that even though the pattern is the same, every knitter brings their own colour choices, tension, and personality to each piece.

Submission Calls

Art Gallery of Peterborough submission call

The Elegant Spider Knitting Circle is going to yarn bomb the Art Gallery of Peterborough and they need your help!

To celebrate the current art exhibit which includes Knitting Sprawl by Yarn Bombing book contributor Robyn Love, The Elegant Spider is calling all knitters and crocheters to create pieces to adorn the pillars outside the gallery (The pillars are two different sizes: 35” and 38”.)

Bring your family and finished pieces to Family Day at the Art Gallery of Peterborough on February 7, 2010 at 1:00pm to have them attached to a pillar and participate in an art exhibit: This will be Peterborough’s first mass public yarn storm. We invite you to add pieces until the end of the exhibit run on March 7th, 2010. To donate yarn for this project or to obtain yarn for your creation, please contact Kate Siena at ksiena@cogeco.ca

firstsite yarn bombing

Image from firesite Centre website.

If you live in the UK, get your yarn bomb on in Essex at the firstsite Centre in Colchester Currently home to an exhibition of the amazing UK Hyperbolic Crochet Crochet Reef, Firstsite is having an event on Saturday, 30 January. Find out more about this workshop and others via their website: http://www.firstsite.uk.net/coral_reef.html (click on the Coral Reef Events PDF in the left hand navigation column).

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We’d like to thank the Vancouver Museum for having us at their event last week. We had a great time meeting so many crafters, and catching up with Yarn Bombing contributor KnitGirl! Check out her photos of the event over at Strathcozies: http://strathcozies.blogspot.com/2010/01/diy-night-at-mov.html. I wanted to dive straight into that big pile of yarn.

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