The Pump House

Just in time for their Chalk Art Festival tomorrow!

The Woolly Walk Along

A while back, I heard about a big yarn bombing project in New Zealand. A knitter calling herself  Knitty Graffity was asking for pieces to put on the railing around the wharf in Auckland for the Rugby World Cup which is being held there.

Here's a link to an article about it: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=10750575

Be sure to watch this video. http://www.localist.co.nz/milfordtakapunadevonport/articles/devonport-wharf-gets-woolly Our piece (black with colored flowers) is first visible at :19. There's a close-up of it not long after. Starting at :41 it's on the screen for about 10 seconds while being sewn onto the pole. Very cool.

You can read more about the project at Knitty Graffity's blog: http://knittygraffity.blogspot.com/

The scarf is at the river!

Remember the giant scarf from a few weeks ago? It's on display on a fence for the annual Riverfest celebration. It's not our project, but we helped with it. It took us about an hour and a half to put it up. Luckily for us, someone else will be taking it down next week, after the festivities. (assuming that it survives....)

This guy and his brother helped roll out the last several yards. 

TV, newspapers, Flickr, oh my!

Saturday was a crazy day! We had committed to volunteer with the yearly knitting day at the library which, for the first time, was in June, on Worldwide Knit in Public Day. It also happened to be the 1st annual International Yarn Bombing Day.

We don't usually ask for permission, but did talk to the library director about this. She said she didn't want to be involved but if things appeared, it would be fine. :) Our plan was to put things up with twist ties for the day and take them down at the end of the day so they could be sewn on elsewhere at another date. Well....we got asked to leave the indoor pieces there and to also sew the monster feet onto the bike rack. I also got permission to cover the entire rack. That should keep me busy! Stay tuned for updates on that project. Luckily, I found out about that just after I was asked to set out several boxes of acrylic yarn that was to be given away. I grabbed a  bunch of bright Red Heart.

During the 10:00 news that night, I saw this: http://www.wxow.com/Global/story.asp?S=14888677

This morning, I went to get the Sunday paper off of the steps and saw this: http://lacrossetribune.com/image_a5b3fc1d-81b0-588d-8d60-6817449e4f6d.html

Later in the day, someone from the library posted these pics on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tinfoilraccoon/sets/72157626820808497/with/5825125317/

Dobby and his sock.

When I spotted Dobby, my first thought was "He needs a sock!" Last night, I took care of that.



First out-of-town bomb.

I hit this tree with a skull bomb last Saturday. It's outside of a very cool yarn shop. I don't think that it will be there long, as it's just tied on with long i-cords because I didn't know what I would be attaching it to or what size it would be. I like this one a lot. 

 Their window was filled with yarn caterpillars. How cool is that?!



They had a bicycle in the other window that they're covering with yarn. They also were bombing this small tree in their window. I wonder if they've noticed the small socks that were added....

1st yarn bombs!

We did our first yarn bombs tonight. There are a lot of these new bike racks in town. I wonder how many of them we can cover?

I made this one knowing that there was a light pole in front of one of the tattoo shops in town. I hope that they like it.

Some sunny yellow cables to brighten the day, hopefully.

We saw this on our way home and had to stop and listen: