Integrate Arts Festival 2013

A friend of mine had told me about an art festival that was gaining momentum in Victoria. I decided to go out for auditions as it were, and show the organizing committee my work.

                                     (My work for the committee that I showed at our meeting)

I went with coral, because it's the west coast (do we have coral??) and because it looks cool to see urban objects (like bike racks and electrical boxes) covered in fluffy brightly coulored coral.

I was approved and I decided to do two yarn bombs. One set up before the event and the other, a live installation.

We'll, the installation of the before hand one went well.

here are some pictures of it on the electrical power maintenance box.



Don't worry, it's all safe. I didn't cover important parts of the box.



But sadly, the piece didn't even make it the whole event. I would have thought Integrates Arts Festival would have put more effort into maintaining it for the duration of the event, but sadly they did not.

The live installation was worse.


(Tiny Finn from Adventure time! I was trying to make more characters, but I got distracted with coral for the other piece)

It started raining as I was putting it up, so that impacted who would come, but worse, the festival organizers were supposed to bring the tour people around when I started and they never came. It was super disappointing.



All in all, I wouldn't do the festival again. For how much energy I put in I didn't feel respected or a part of the festival at all.
In fact, I felt really used.

But I did do a really cool coral reef piece, my largest installation of coral yet! So that's something to be proud of!

Woolley Poles Contribution

So the Woolley Poles was a success!

On November 17th, my coral reef piece was put up on a pole in Auckland, New Zealand.

I gotta say, I was in suspense about this one for a long while.
But it turned out amazing!

Here it is up on the pole with the other red pieces. There was a kind of rainbow theme as the undercurrent. I really liked that part.

Here you can see the rest of the pole that it was apart of as well. I like to think it's rather predominant. It was so much fun to make.

 And here is the card attached to one of the poles describing the event.
You can check out more pictures on the Facebook page for Woollypoles or Knitty Graffity's page soon hopefully.

I hope I can do more of these events in the future. There is something amazing about sending my art all over the world.

Woollypoles beginning

Hey everyone!

Have you heard about Woollypoles? Brought to you by the same wonderful creator of the woolly walk along.
Anyway, I am helping out and have already started working on my contribution piece.

I'm hoping to embellish it tons, make it really sea-ish.
Lot's of other people's works are looking really good too! I cannot wait for this. Joined events like this are crazy for anticipation with me.
Stay tuned for more news from the woollypoles!
Check here to read more about it and see how everyone's work is coming along.

Thoughts on Coral

So I'll admit.
I haven't been all that focused on yarnbombing lately.
After International Yarnbombing day at the beginning of summer, I kind of trailed off dramatically. But do not dispair! I have sti;ll been crocheting.
Truth is, I have been focusing on more personal projects.
I have been working on a crochet suit of armor, a Link (from legend of Zelda) costume (with sword and shield), and my personal favorite, wall coral reef.

Here is the original one the I did for a friend of mine. She wanted something to remind her of her time in Thailand and in colors of her wedding (trip to Thailand was the honeymoon), green and pink.
So I made this!

I had so much fun doing it and it seems to be popular, I want to try making small ones (this one is a foot around, so kind of like a pizza!) because wee crochet is always cute.
Anyway, I hope you think crochet coral reef is as cool as I do!

Forgetful and Knit Corsham

Hey everybody!
... sorry. It has been a really busy two months personally. I haven't even really had a chance to crochet, let alone do any yarn bombs.
But! I am going to Vancouver over the weekend, so hopefully that will give me a chance to get some yarn bombing done there! I just love tagging in other cities.

And to do a brief catchup, does anyone remember when I was talking about Knit Corsham? It was around international yarnbombing day (I believe the event coincided, but went on for more days than just IYBD). Anyway, I never did show everyone what my piece that I sent them looked like.

See, I mailed this lovely coral reef bike rack cover all the way to the UK! I love doing yarn bombs around the world, because it is something that I have worked hard on being seen in a part of the world I have never been! (ok, I have been to Scotland and England, but I was very wee and obviously do not remember any of it) Apparently it was well received. That always makes me happy.

There were tons of pieces for the Knit Corsham festival. I suggest you google it or check out the various yarn forums if you wanna take a look at all the pictures.

It was so much fun. I keep thinking about organizing some sort of gran event where I ask for donations from people in the form of bombs, but I don't have the time between work and school. Hopefully some day I can! In the mean time, participating in events like this one are marvelous. Thanks goes out to Sandie Roach who got me involved in the project and special thanks to everyone who made the project happen.

Hyperbolic Crochet

ok guys, wow.
Just wow.
I don't know what to say other than that I am addicted to making hyperbolic crochet!
I have made three different "creations" since I started less than a week ago. I thought it would be something awesome to do while my gf was in Disneyland over xmas.
Turns out it is more than awesome, it is my favorite thing to crochet so far!
Check out this first one I did.

I sent it to one of my best friends for her birthday... which is like in 2 or three days.

And then I made one sorta like it, but denser. And three colors instead of 2. My buddy suggested I outline it in the orange. I agreed, and I think it looks great, but it ate the last of my orange XD

The last one, I was trying for something else. I got this instead.

I am not complaining though, because I think this one is my favorite so far.
The green really pops in real life, and I like that you can see both the blue and the purple underneath.

I was trying to make a whole rainbow. Maybe I can make it work on the next one.
Enjoy!