I keep running across Yarn Bombing--read a facebook post about it the other day, then found a BOOK called Yarn Bombing at the library!
Wikipedia says "yarn bombing is almost exclusively about reclaiming and personalizing sterile or cold public places."
I like the idea of the rather domestic art of crochet or knitting being taken to the streets and used to make people think. Like that tank, above. I'm imagining a little lacy cannon-cover, or a doily affixed to the end of a cannon . . .
I'm VERY intrigued, and I think I'll try a yarn bombing project, though my boys are horrified at the idea . . . more later :-)
2 comments:
check out the yarnscape right up the street from us!
http://www.carolhummel.com/?action=portfolio&nav=recent&pid=137
Those crocheted cozies (see the comment above) are great! How wonderful to live in a yarn-bombed town--though if it was commissioned by the city, maybe it's not "bombed," just "yarnscaped."
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