So I decided to try something new. I have all these crazy ideas for a yarn bomb, but I am only one person. I can't make all my ideas come true quickly.
The easiest solution was to get other people to help me. So I looked at all my friends and found two fellow yarn crafters ( a knitter and a crocheter) and asked them if they wanted to help me with a super secret yarn bomb.
The super secret yarn bomb was to cover the rail outside our campus with the solar system. Sun to Pluto (which I still consider a planet... and so does spell check apparently, because it wants to capitalize it). No moons, cause I am not insane.
The Sun (done by Botanical Garden)
Mercury (done by Botanical Garden)
Venus (done by Botanical Garden)
Earth (done by Botanical Garden) Sorry the photo quality is poor... I was freezing.
Mars (done by me, Spencer Diamond)
Asteroid belt (done by me, Spencer Diamond)
Jupiter (done by me, Spencer Diamond)
Saturn (done by me, Spencer Diamond)
Uranus (done by Black Pluto)
Neptune (done by Black Pluto)
and Pluto (done by Black Pluto)
We all worked on the sleeves, and I added the felt pieces on the Sun and the stars.
All in all working with others has turned out great. It has taught me what to expect from a larger project, which is that they look incredible once realized.
I also made a video of the whole bomb posted to my tumblr if you want to take a look at that.
This was an amazing project. Botanical Garden came up with the name. Other people took photos too, so hopefully I can do another post later this week with better photos of the planets.
And for the first time, I was confronted with security when doing a yarnbomb. They did not like our big project. So I have also learned that with big projects, you are testing societies limits more. I absolutely believe they will take it down Monday, but that's what you get sometimes.
This is definitely something I want to do with my yarn bombing crew again!
