A night out with the kids

My 14 yr old daughter and her friends decided the best way to spend a Friday night was yarnbombing the town, singing as they went.  They made up the song and sang versions of the verses as we went along - creative bunch!  This was a great way to get the cozies out there....I've been making them but not getting them out for about a month now.  It's been raining almost every day, and today was sunny and relatively dry, so we took advantage of it, though it did get dark fast. 

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The story of a blanket

Because we all need to know where our blankets come from.  Well, the wool ones anyway.

Hefty Tag 2

A beautiful day to drive to the ferry to pick up the kid.  The snow is perched on branches, waiting to fly again when the wind comes back.  But for now it cozies up to the lines - of branches, rocks, phone wires, the horizon; it reflects light right into the insides of your eyes, reaching the far back corners and brightening things up a bit.



Candy Swirl

This candy-like swirl is outside the Comox Valley Art Gallery, and right across the street from the Courtenay branch of the library.  I hope no one takes it down - it took a really long time to make!

edit - It's had a few days now of being sassy there on the tree, like some spring-time candy floss out of place in this winter clime.  Any time it gets from here in out is just icing on the cake.

Hefty Tag

In order to use up the little bits left over from other projects, I've started making hefty tags of 8 or 9 yarns hooked together.  I got the idea from this flicker photo while doing a yarnbomb google search for images to inspire me.

I've been learning about felting, and have a candystore row of dyed roving that is scrumptious.  I'm working on how to incorporate felting into a bomb...these things take time!





Shelf Cozy

This shelf cozy is at the Comox library, hugging the fibre arts section.  I thought about superglue, but settled on magnetic strips cut from business card magnets stuck to the back of it.  It looks a bit forlorn, but has a lovely sheen.

I'm making a project for my house - a yarn cozy that will be mounted to my wall.  I got the idea from a website, but don't want to give away the surprise. 

The guys at Slegg Lumber were incredibly helpful, risking finger amputation to cut an 8 foot sonotube down into 8" sections for me.  And that was 15 minutes before closing!  Those guys made my day.

A light sanding with a fine sandpaper smoothed the edges, and a few coats of paint will hide the fact that it's sonotube.   More to follow.

One of the things I'm noticing as a result of yarnbombing is a heightened sense of my place in this community.  The tree above is outside the hospital where my two nieces were born, and putting those two rocks in the tree feels like a small anchor to that place. There is a small pink tag around the stop sign at the corner of 17th and Wilemar, which I pass everyday, and it acts as a small marker to me on my way to and from work.  It's one of the points of contact where two strands of the web of my life meet.  It's a bit like mapping the world, leaving landmarks that I recognize as having a distinct connection with my life, even if it is a small connection.  Try it.  You might like it.