I’ll admit it, I’m still on a stripe kick. I’m quite enamored with textile artist Sara Noble’s Zebra Pole. Crochet out of plastic shopping bags, it has been hanging the south of England for a few weeks now:
Images courtesy of Sara Noble
Sara says: I walked out my flat last week trying to think where and what I could yarn bomb – and there it was, all down my road there are about five zebra crossings! All looking really slick with their black and white stripped lines and yellow flashing lights. My work is normally really brightly coloured, and this gave me a fresh approach. I stripped up plastic bags to make the yarn for the crochet because I thought wool would go all soggy in our current British rainy climate, also the plastic fits in with the shiny look of lamp post, making it more invisible. Watch out around East London – as more of these crop up!
Sara’s also been busy decorating the banks of the Thames:
I had been planning to do knitted graffiti as a way of getting my work back out into a bigger, site specific space, and was a amazed when a friend forwarded me the yarn bombing website, hence creating a sense of urgency to make something!
Thanks for sharing this with us Sara! We can’t wait to see what is next. To learn more about Sara, check out her website.
There has been lots of excitement in London lately – yarn bombing hero Magda Sayeg recently went tagging with a bunch of folks. Deadly Knitshade of Pearl Interrupted has a great story on her blog about bombing with Magda.
And, speaking of black and white, check out this awesome tutorial for spinning yarn out of newspaper. I’m really enthused about this – hence the groan-worthy title of this post. I’d love to know if anyone tries to y-bomb with this. It would probably work best in warm, dry places – not the Canadian rainforest that I reside in.
