Posts Tagged ‘Olympics’

Of Olympic Proportions

Thursday, March 22nd, 2012

Can I say how much I adore the mystery Saltburn by the Sea knitter?

This intriguing yarn-bomb replicates a multitude of Olympic sports, cast in a 50ft-long piece in knitting. Whoever you are mystery crafter, I grant you the keys-to-the-City-of-Yarn-Bombing for March. You are amazing!

Mary Bennett was kind enough to send me these images from the pier:






Other links of note:

My Modern Met has a nice collection of images from Magda Sayeg of Knitta. The first image of the stairs is just stunning: http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/magda-sayeg-knitta-please-yarn-bombing-street-art

Knitting a revolution – a friend send me this video about activists who are crafting a revolution in Syria. Really interesting story but it is unfortunate that they didn’t fact-check knitting vs crochet. Despite the slip-up, it is a fascinating story and deserves a watch: http://www.jpost.com/VideoArticles/Video/Article.aspx?id=260343

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Rapid City Presidents

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010

Article from the Rapid City Journal. This image is for sale on their website.

Becka, of the Textile Center in Minneapolis, MN (which will be doing some yarn bombing of its own this month) sent me an article about a mother and daughter team yarn bombing presidential statues in Rapid City:

Earlier this month, colorful cowls or scarves were draped around the necks of the presidential statues of John Kennedy, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, William Taft, Lyndon Johnson, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams and the antique fountain on Sixth Street. John Adams, and George Bush Sr. were bundled up the following week. Herbert Hoover, Calvin Coolidge and Franklin Roosevelt were dressed in new knitwear during last week’s cold front.

The daughter Joleen Klubek is quoted as saying: “I feel that we’re doing art and helping the homeless people at the same time.”

Read the article in the Rapid City Journal here. Photo gallery of images here.

Furthermore:

  1. More Olympic yarn bombing – the  Beautiful pillars at the Squamish Arts Council by Krisztina Egyed – wow!
  2. Eastney - First Yarnbomb by Claire Sambrooke. Nice colours, nice beach.
  3. Amazing knitted tree and The Nature Pillar, a crazy, floral beanstalk, over at the Snail Garden.
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The Lady Bomb

Friday, February 5th, 2010

The Olympics comes to Vancouver. Our city is awash in corporate advertising, tourists, scary black vehicles, athletes…and yarn!

Oriana sends in some images of her installation ‘Old Lady Bomb’:

She says, “My first tag was the old lady statue just outside Stanley Park, at Denman and Cordova. Sorry for the horrendous quality of the photos (camera phone), but it made me feel special. Thank you for bringing this into my life!”

This statues often sits with flowers, picked from the Stanley Park flowerbeds, in her arms but this is the first time that I’ve seen someone make it look winter-chic. Way to go, Oriana!

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