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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