Who is this mysterious face? The JafaGirls of Yellow Springs, Ohio keep it fresh by mixing up a bit of fabric paint, stenciling, and yarn. Check out JafaBrit’s blog for some cool art.
This past weekend, Mandy and I spoke on Word on the Street, a one day literary festival at the Vancouver Public Library. We were at Word Under the Street – the comix and zine area. It was a lot of fun. Nardwaur (one of the coolest Canadian celebrities) was the MC. We showed off projects from the book and covered a bike in wool as an homage to the many artists who have created wooly bikes.
Showing off projects from the book
Mandy contemplates her next tag.
Nardwaur quizzes me about the Halifax Explosion, and I momentarily blank out…my only response is a feeble ‘…of yarn?’
I’ll have to post a picture of the completed bike (and a round-up of other artists who have covered bikes and motorbikes) soon. All in all, Word on the Street was a fun, fun day and it was amazing to see so many people knitting and crocheting in the audience.
Tags: Jafagirls, Nardwuar, Word on the Street, Yellow Springs
all so good! all so awesome! so glad to see jafabrit getting the love she deserves – and congrats again on that book of yours
Dude, you gals met Nardwuar?? You and Mandy have ARRIVED!!
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woo hoo, thanks for posting this
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Word on the Street sure looks fun. I like the photo of you both showing off the projects from the book
Still have not hit the country here, and I await with eagerness.
The event looks like a ton of fun, bet you were exhausetd.
check out the knit graffiti cartoon on the jafagirls.com blog, and a news article that names your book. arg on the tv interview this morning for ABC 22/Fox 45 series entitled “It’s Where You Live”I said mandy prain because I was so nervous but the interviewer showed the book on camera and will be posting info about it on their website.
Discussion was generated about Yarnbombin™ on CBC’s Q show this morning.
Woot!! Woot!! They were all sufficiently puzzled about the phenomenon as well. : D
here it is
thanks Knitgirl, I left a comment too (hopefully they will publish it).
Thanks for the comments on the Q site – funny that they were puzzled, we’ve been on CBC’s Early Edition twice and they’ve totally got it.
JafaBrit – I LOVE the cartoon. So great.
And KnitGirl – the TM definitely belongs to you.
Hi I have been knit-graffittied! I belong to a stitch and bitch group here in Auckland New Zealand and while I was away recently in Europe on holiday my five friends came round to my house and spent 5 hours up ladders and stitching and bitching and completely covered my garden trees in knitting graffitti- would love to send you some pictures- what email address shall I send them too- it is attracting quite a lot of attention- passersby stopping and coming in to see…amazing.
Just found out who Nardwaur is from The Best Show on WFMU (http://3.ly/9OX). I feel like I’ve penetrated some subcultural sub-basement!
Congrats on all the success ladies, and I’m totally psyched to see the yarn collage in the second photo
just picked up a copy of your book in edmonton- LOVE IT!
perhaps something will pop up in edmonton soon…
I’d love to see something in Edmonton!
Aliza – we’re going to photograph the rest of the bike this weekend.
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Anyone thinking of yarnbombing some of the Olympic stuff around town? I’m thinking a scarf would look very nice around the neck of the English Bay Inukshuk?
Anyone interested?
I recently purchased a very cool CBR but had a small misfortune! I tried to brake consistently with the front brakes but the wheel almost instantly slipped out under me! I have been on the back of a bike with a dood a few times who has even brought the rear wheel up into the air by braking very hard with the forward brake! How did he do it different? Im confused!!