Mission YARNpossible: July 2011

Sunday, July 24, 2011

Guayaquil, Ecuador, Minnesota, Galapagos airport

Guayaquil, Ecuador

Galapagos Airport, Ecuador

Minnesota, thanks Nancy!

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Ecuador: Galapagos Islands, Quito, Guayaquil

Aboard the Yolita II
in the Galapagos Islands
Ecuador

Kansas and Missouri!

Thanks Pat and Neil!

Kansas City, Mo.

Kansas

Sunday, July 3, 2011

OH CANADA! Thanks Sam and Gale!

Nova Scotia

Quebec yarnbombed

AND MY PERSONAL FAVORITE...

RMCP station in North River Labrador

Nova Scotia

On city street corners, around telephone posts, through barbed wire fences, and over abandoned cars, a quiet revolution is brewing. “Knit graffiti” is an international guerrilla movement that started underground and is now embraced by crochet and knitting artists of all ages, nationalities, and genders. Its practitioners create stunning works of art out of yarn, then “donate” them to public spaces as part of a covert plan for world yarn domination.

Graffiti knitting, yarnbombing, yarn bombing, yarnstorming is a type of graffiti or street art that employs colorful displays of knitted or crocheted cloth rather than paint or chalk. While yarn installations may last for years, they are considered non permanent, and, unlike graffiti, can be easily removed if necessary.

Yarnbombs are made from cast off projects that will never be finished, odd balls of yarn, that acrylic yarn you bought years ago that will now NEVER be used in a project, or any other yarns that you choose of any fiber!!!