Friday, August 31, 2012

Yarn Bombing.... Even Tampax is doing it!

I thought it would be really fun to do a blog post all about yarn bombing. For those of you that are not familiar yarn bombing is "is a type of graffiti or street art that employs colorful displays of knitted or crocheted yarn or fibre rather than paint or chalk." -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yarn_bombing

A few days ago I was sitting on my moms couch  and looking through Oprah magazine to find this ad:

Now if that does not get you to want to buy Tampax I don't know what will! 



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Yarn_Bombing_-_John_Young_Fountain,_Montreal.jpg

The next image is from 


This is one of my favorite. The world would be a lot happier place is everyone knit! 

Yarn bombed statue in Bali (Photo by Mike Piscitelli)


http://rebelyarns.wordpress.com/tag/yarnbombing/


Artist, Magda Sayeg covered a bus in Mexico City with yarn.
Details bellow:






This one might be by far one of the craziest one I have seen 

This piece of yarn bombing is so big the belly button is
actually a person! This is a yarn bomb in Italy


http://designsparrow.blogspot.com/2011/07/inspired-by-yarn-bombers.html



This video is also really cool!! Take a second to watch it! 



So go out there and get your yarn bombing on!! Great way to use up some of your stash and put a smile on a few strangers faces. Lets make this world a much more colorful place! 

http://www.facebook.com/yarnbombing



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