Canada
Calgary
Congrats to the Calgary Art Bomber and the Happy Hookers for the successful installation of the traffic barrier project this week:
Image courtesy of The Calgary Art Bomber
Downtown Calgary should be looking a lot brighter!
British Columbia
Further west, yarn bombing has appeared in the Ski Resort of SunPeaks, BC:
yarn bombing tree
Image courtesy of JPhotography
California
Down south (from my perspective in Vancouver), the ever intrepid Streetcolor has come up with some beautiful wrapped poles:
Photos courtesy of Streetcolor.
Each of these knit pieces are 30 feet long!
Streetcolor has been decorating museum sites lately – and has been writing some very interesting blog posts. If you haven’t had a chance to visit her blog lately, I would recommend it. And, if you are new to yarn bombing, do not miss her advice for novice yarn bombers.
Germany
Further afield, there has been more yarn bombing in Berlin! This video, sent to me by Miraché, makes me extremely happy: Yarn Bombing in Berlin
She says: ‘A group of Guerilla Knitters which I am part of have recently (31 January to be precise) stormed the U1 in Berlin disguised with knitted beards and armed with knitted cozies, to beautify and soften the harsh interior of the everyday world of commuters. After 3 months of preparation with my Stitch N Bitch group, it took us just an hour to install, and the carriage stayed in circulation until around 15:00, when the BVG security unfortunately cut it all to pieces. Despite making those few employees miserable by giving them extra work, I think we cheered up a fair amount of weary travellers on a gloomy January day!’
I agree – I love the smile on the bewildered passenger’s face in the first minute of the video. See more photos of the installation here.
Morocco
Carole has written to tell me that she has completed her first yarn bombing – in Morocco! This little tag was placed on a telephone in the tiny town of Tiznit. It’s the first time that Carole has knitted in 20 years – I think that the tag is a good return to the knit. Congrats Carole!
Chile
While the earthquake in Japan has been on the forefront of my mind lately as the country has a special kinship with the area of Canada that I live in – Marina has reminded me that Chile is also recovering from the effects of their own natural disaster. In late February, she decorated a building in Santiago which had been torn apart by an 8.8 earthquake to be a sign of hope for renewal and to bring attention to an apartment that was once a home to many people: http://www.revesderecho.com/2011/02/28/yarnbombing-27f/
Moscow
From warm to cold, there has also been some winter yarn bombing in Moscow. This photo was sent in by Наталья Кириллова:
I can’t read Russian, but from what I can tell from their blog – they got up to some woolly madness: http://lunteg.livejournal.com/132994.html Anyone know this statue? It’s time to break out the Google Translate.
Whew – that’s not all, but it is all I’m going to put in this post. Next time – an interview with two artist working with fibre in Seattle!
PS… a Yarn Bombing Festival!
Looking to do some yarn bombing next weekend? If you are close to Daytona Beach, Florida, there will be a community event for fiber enthusiasts:
Saturday, April 9 10 to 3 pm
Peabody Auditorium in Daytona Beach, Florida, USA.
Yarn Bombing by local guerrilla girls – bring your needles and yarn, bring your friends, and join in the fun. Also Sister City poets are participating with a tug ‘o war poetry contest and groups of knitters are coming in from around the area. It’s a free art installation gig! Laughter provided free of charge.
