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When I decided up a title for the book that Mandy and I are currently writing, I was thinking of the act of bombing (aka putting up graffiti), not actually bombing (as in creating an explosion). Yarn bombing was fun and playful, and suggested something that would work for both crochet and knitting artists. Since that time however, in telling friends the name of this blog and the book, jestful comments about being considered a terrorist have been common. Several family members are convinced that I am sentenced to a lifetime of having difficult border crossings because of the book’s name.
So, imagine my surprise when I came across this Guardian article from 2005 about radical knitting. It features British Group Cast Off’s pattern of a knitted hand grenade. Actual yarn bombs. Who knew?
I had such fun looking at the Cast offs link, those knitted sandwiches are just hilarious.
I did a blog entry about their knitted wedding a while ago. I highly recommend taking a look at the Prick Your Finger blog: http://prickyourfinger.blogspot.com
Possibly my all-time favourite blog.
Hey ya never know when you put stuff out into the grand universe where it is gonna land.