Impromptu yarn bombing

One day, I was heading to the mall.
Couldn't have been much more than two weeks ago, maybe early December, later November time.
It was raining at the time, and I really just wanted to get into the mall and grab a tea. I don't think I was having a particularly good day.
When suddenly, I happen upon an abandoned knit item.
Now, I didn't think it was a scarf. It may have wanted to start it's life out as a scarf, but it still had stingy ends hanging at either end; I'm not even sure one end was even tied off. It simply looked like someone's work-in-progress had fallen out of their bag.
So I recovered the piece from where it had fallen in the dirty, wet grass, and placed it on an empty pole in front of a parking space. The pole too must have had a greater purpose once upon a time. Perhaps it was handicapped parking, or marked off small cars only.
Either way, the two of them joined together to make a lovely impromptu yarn bomb.

I hope they made each other very happy.

I know they made my day a whole lot better.
I realized that I haven't been doing as much yarn bombing this year as I have in previous ones. Here's hoping that for 2012, I get back in the swing of things and bring you all some amazing yarn bombs.
With that in mind,
Do you remember the 21 days of yarnbombing last November?
Well, that spider from Day 3 is STILL UP!
Oh yeah! 13 months and counting!

Of course, it has clearly seen better days...
: )

Fifteenth of November: Day 15 of 21 days of Yarn bombing

Ok, this is a bit of a cheat, but it comes with an entertaining story.

Remember the bench wrap that I did on day 9?
Well it didn't last the day, let alone a couple hours, but a couple of days later, when my roommate and I were off  to post the fishing pole bomb we walked past a tree in front of a house across the street from the bus stop and lo and behold, there in the tree was my tag!
It was perfectly fine, just... not where I bombed it. It was just laying over a branch.
So i picked it up and recycled it.

With this re-bomb!

I put it up at my school. So while this isn't super original, I like it anyway.
I am gonna keep plugging away at this 21 days!

Fourteenth of November: Day 14 of 21 days of Yarn bombing

Pretty much since day 1 of these 21 days of yarn bombing, I wanted to do something pretty big.
Or at least something interesting.
So while I was working on all these other tags, I was working on a major one in the background.

Fishing!

And it looks like I caught me a big one!
I installed my fishing pole tag on this particular pole and got the idea for this particular tag, because the pole is crooked. It reminded me of the angle that you would hold a fishing pole at.

I am very proud of this one. I molded the rings from wire, then wrapped them in yarn.
And the fishing line is wound around the reel there, and can tighten and loosen, lowering and reeling in the fish.

I had so much fun with this one! I hope everyone in my neighbourhood likes it too.

Thirteenth of November: Day 13 of 21 days of Yarn bombing

Hey everybody.
I did better today!
I went back to day 10's pole tag in the playground. I was very happy to still find it there.

And so I added more to it.

One day I would love to be able to keep coming back to a tag and add to it (like yarnattacks 21 days project), but for now I will settle for adding another pole tag above day 10s.

The flowers were also still on the fence.

I hope all the kids like them tomorrow when they go to school.

Twelfth of November: Day twelve of 21 days of Yarn bombing

In advance, before you see the photos of todays yarn bomb, I would like to apoligize.
I got super busy with work and travel and all kinds of things.
I didn't have the chance to do a real yarn bomb.

So I did this.
Sad, sad, bus stop bench tag.

Also, it is getting very cold outside.
I promise day 13 will be better.

Eleventh of November: day 11 of 21 days of yarn bombing

Happy 11/11/11!
And happy Rememberence/veterans/ just plain long weekend to everyone!

In celebration of not only 21 days of yarn bombing, but also Rememberence day, I went down to the legislative grounds for today's bomb.
At the edge of the legislature, there is a statue honoring those who have fallen in combat, but remain unidentified. The unknown solider.
Since it is 11/11/11, and not just any Nov. 11th, I made these 11 poppies, and placed them on the statue of the unknown solider.

They looked really beautiful amongst the wreaths.

I dedicate these poppies in memory of all the fallen soldiers.
I hope you all enjoy them.

Tenth of November: Day ten of 21 days of Yarn bombing

Hey! You're never going to believe this!
Not only are all of day 5 (except that one we already knew was missing) and day 6's flowers still at the school...

But someone added their own little poppy to the mix!
I'm really glad they a) liked the flowers and b) enough to add their own art to it.

Kids are great.
Anyway, on to day 10!
Ok, originally, I had big plans for today. Then city workers came along and fixed the pole I intended on tagging, so now I am with out a pole. -sigh-
I will keep my eye open, but likely I will end up bombing it outside these 21 days of awesome.

In the mean time, here is day 10's beautiful tag.

I went back to the playground that hosts the wonderful little flowers and did this pole cover on part of the structure.

I really hope the kids like this too.

See you back for day 11!

Ninth of November: Day nine of 21 days of Yarn bombing

I got an early start on this one.
Which means I should have posted this sooner, but after poutine and watching D.E.B.s with my some new friends, I am getting around to it now.

This is at the bus stop by my house.

I didn't get many shots of it because people started showing up at the bus stop and I looked a little weird to have my cell camera out taking pictures of a yarn bombing.
And then the bus came soon after. I will have to see if it is still there tomorrow.
Until then, here is a cat with my Doorknoctopus on its head.

Eighth of November: Day eight of 21 days of Yarn bombing

Man, I am super tired.
I spent the day working on tags and projects for winter craft fairs.
I am beat!
And I didn't really leave the house today so...

Tada!

It's a rainbow flower on a pole almost directly outside my house.
I was outside for maybe 5 minutes today.

I will try to do better for the rest of this week.

Seventh of November: Day seven of 21 day of Yarnbombing

It's raining.
I gotta tell you, raining makes it difficult to yarn bomb. Not impossible, just a little uncomfortable.
Anyway, I stopped by the playground on my way home from school.

I thought there would be more elements at the playground to bomb, but there was surprisingly little.

But I made do.

Either way, it is a miserable day outside.
I'm going to curl up on the couch and do some more prep for the rest of these 21 days of November.

Sixth of November: Day six of 21 day of Yarnbombing

I can't say I did anything super creative today.
I did exactly what I said I would do.

I added more flowers to the existing flowers, that I am very happy to say actually made it!
Or at least most of them.

I lost one of the day 5 flowers, but with the 6 I put up today, there are still a total of 13 flowers on that fence for the children to get all excited about tomorrow morning when they go to school.

I do not expect the flowers to survive that however.
I really hope the kids like the flowers.

Fifth of November: Day five of 21 day of Yarnbombing

Remember remember, the 5th of november!
Ok, now that I have that out of my system, here are some lovely flowers for you all.

My roommate and I went out into the dark of night and put these flowers on a fence at the local elementary school.

                                               (Roommate, and the cute cat hat that I made)
8 total, for no particular reason. It's just how many I picked out of the ones I had made.

I was thinking if they are still there for day 6, then I would just add more.

Fourth of November: Day 4 of 21 day of Yarnbombing

Hey everyone. Back again for day 4 of 21 days of yarnbombing.
So far everything is going well. I checked up on the spider and he is still hanging out outside, swinging care-free in the wind.
Today is my best friend/roommates birthday, so we went around town a lil bit.
I was feeling a bit better, so this worked out.
We picked up some David's Tea (awesome tea!) and then headed down to beacon hill park.
Before even entering the park, I tagged the dog sign.

Why?
Because it's before the park.. and why not? I dunno. I just have wanted to put one on this pole for awhile.
We always pass it on our way back from tacos in cook street village.

I had a lot of fun today.
Happy birthday Roommate!

Third of November: Day 3 of 21 day of Yarnbombing

k, so pretend I posted this yesterday.
Turns out I got really tired after posting these on Tumblr, Ravelry and Facebook, and forgot to post them here.

Ok, so Day 3!
I'll be honest. I am a little sick right now. So I did not put real effort into day 3's tag. I am hoping to do better by the weekend, but I just wasn't into it yesterday.
So I made this cute lil spider.

I hung it up outside my building. I really didn't leave the house yesterday ^^;
Parts of him glow!

Anyway, I'll see you all later today for day 4.

Second of November: Day two of 21 day of Yarnbombing

Look everybody!
I did day 2!
I`m just proud of myself because I have migraine headaches rampaging through my brain and it was raining most of today... but I did it! I left the house and helped out my community while I was at it.

Ok, so turns out a good friend of mine, Shayne (who was also nice enough to take these photos and then post them to my facebook wall because my phone died and I didn't have my camera with me), has this good friend who owns a vintage store. They are the wonderful Sideshow Sam, and she runs Sam's Sideshow boutique. Anyway, she ran into some trouble with the 1% and reached out to the community for help. There is not a faster way to get me to help someone.
I will spend money I do not have to help businesses survive. I think independent businesses are the face of a community, the very soul of a city center.

While I was there spending money I don't have ( omg, I got the most amazing shirt and these great punk pants) I decided to add a little yarn bomb to Sam's front entrance. She got super excited by this, and I told her I would plug her store too, cause that is what yarn bombing is sorta about. Community and coming together and that sort of thing.

Today was a good day people... even if I am under the weather.
Let's cross our fingers for being back tomorrow!

First of November: Day one of 21 day of Yarnbombing

So I randomly stumbled across this project that Twilight taggers decided to put on.
It's 21 days of Yarn bombing. Starting November 1st and going till November 21st, Yarn artists are to go out and do a yarn bomb everyday!
I really hope that I can keep up with this wonderful new activity in the world of yarn bombing.
Anyway, here is day one!

This is a tree just outside Richmond house.

I hang out here a lot when I am at school. Probably spend more time here then in class.

Hopefully I can do more around campus.
See everyone tomorrow.

More information about event:
http://www.twilighttaggers.blogspot.com/
http://www.facebook.com/21daystoyarnbomb?v=wall
and if you have Ravelry
http://www.ravelry.com/groups/21-days-to-yarn-bomb