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I’m in your tree, covering it in yarn

By monnibo | Published: March 6, 2011

Me in the cherry tree, yarnbombing at Historic Joy Kogawa House

Literally. Today was the day — the official yarnbombing of Joy Kogawa’s cherry tree. I contributed about 100 blossoms and arrived this afternoon to help install the yarn blossoms (and bark!) on the tree. The executive director of the Historic Joy Kogawa House Society managed to get a fire engine with ladder to help install the blossoms in the higher branches. My dad also dropped off a ladder and I made my way up into the tree (I probably should have signed some sort of liability waver first, eh?). It was a gorgeous sunny day; the first day of Spring Continue Reading »

Posted in Crafts, Crochet, Knitting, Out & About, Photos / Videos, Sharing | Also tagged charity, cherry blossoms, Crochet, historic joy kogawa house, joy kogawa, Knitting, mandy moore, ravelry, vancouver, yarnbombing | Comments closed

Cherry Blossom Yarn Bombing Prep

By monnibo | Published: February 10, 2011

A couple months ago I saw a tweet from Leanne Prain, one of the authors of the book Yarn Bombing: The Art of Knit and Crochet Graffiti. The tweet linked to the yarn bombing website and said they were organizing a yarn bombing of the Historic Joy Kogawa House’s cherry tree. This immediately sparked my interest as it merged two of my passions—yarn and books! And I immediately knew the perfect yarn to use (from my stash too) and started crocheting blossoms. I also had a thought— at my new internship I’ve got the chance to contribute to various magazine Continue Reading »

Posted in Books, Challenge, Crafts, Crochet, Knitting, Out & About, Writing/Editing | Also tagged charity, cherry blossoms, Crochet, historic joy kogawa house, joy kogawa, Knitting, mandy moore, ravelry, vancouver, yarnbombing | Comments closed

Yarn Bombing

By monnibo | Published: September 17, 2009

A recent topic around town has been yarn bombing with the upcoming release of Mandy Moore and Leanne Prain’s new book, Yarn Bombing: The Art of Knit and Crochet Graffiti from Arsenal Pulp Press. Well I was lucky enough to see my first real life yarn bombing in Vancouver the other day. We were walking along Davie Street, and saw a knitted fence cozy at the Davie Village Community Garden on Davie and Burrard. There was even a tag by the creators: mis-stitch.blogspot.com, whose blog reads: “Betty Purl and Ginny Hooky Ho are Mis-stitch; contributing to global warming and fuzzy Continue Reading »

Posted in Knitting, Out & About | Also tagged arsenal pulp press, davie village community garden, knit graffiti, Knitting, mandy moore, the word on the street vancouver, three bags full, vancouver, yarn bombing | Comments closed

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