I am Groot!

Not really a yarn bomb, but I made this wonderful yarn Groot for a friend.

If only this one danced around!
Kinda made it up on my own, kinda looked at what other people were doing. As always, it's an amalgamation and I suck at reading patterns :)

Beginning to look a lot like x-mas

You may have noticed that I did not complete the 21 days of yarn bombing.
I gotta say, the way the weather and my health took a turn for the worse in that last week of 3, made it neigh impossible to get my yarn bomb on.
But in resting, I managed to make wonderful crafts for my first ever craft fair!
(well not first ever if you count the ones I helped my mom do when I was a kid, but those weren't handmade crafts like these)

This is a picture of my table!
Look at all the neat crafts! A lot of nice people had wonderful things to say about my crafts.
People said I was creative.
And a little weird. It all made me smile.

I hope I get to do more craft fairs in the future.
It was fun and I got to meet some great people. This one girl, who was helping her grandmother and selling cute candy cane reindeer was really into my sushi. She saved up her earnings all day to buy some, so I gave her a deal. She was a sweetheart and made my day.
Happy crafting everyone!

Achievement completed: Tag ship dock ring!

Today was vaguely an homage day.
First, I was inspired by the works of knit the city. They just recently did a tree where they hung a bunch of octopus from the branches.

I love the googly eyes. I really do keep meaning to go pick some up. (photo credit goes to knitthecity)
I decided to make my own octopus and hang it for passerbyers to see.

I spent today down at the beach with one of my best friends. He's visiting, and today was his last day, so BEACH!
I love it down by the beach. I have already mentioned how I totally meant to spend more time there.
Anyway, I also did this lovely rock while we were watching the tide come in around us.
That's not really an homage such as it is my fav thing to do at the beach.

The next homage was the one that I have been wanting to do all summer!
A Ship dock ring! You know, those rusted out rings that are along coastal waters where they used to tie up something or other, I have no real clue. It is just always slightly awing to see things from the past right out in the open.
Leanne from yarnbombing.com did a ship dock ring. The photos are actually in the yarnbombing book.
But here, I will show you.

I wanted so very much to do something like that as well.
So today when we were out at ogden point and I saw one right there on the rocks, I just had to do it.
My good friend was nice enough and patient enough to sit there while I created the whole tag.
I then attached it and wahla!

I love it personally. I am so glad that I did this.
It feels good to achieve goals.
Enjoy your last days of summer!

Down by the Bay

Hey peeps!
You all recovered from IYBD?
I know I am still riding the high. Last night, after dinner with family, we all went to Beacon Hill Park to see if my tree tag was still up.
You know what??? It was! I was super happy. That's two weeks that it has been up and it's my biggest tag, so you can imagine how happy that makes me. I'm just peachy-thrilled!
Also, that post fungus I did in the park was still there too. And someone attached an earring to it! They added art to my art!

Anyway, that's ketchup on IYBD. The Bolas is the only other one from that day to survive... mostly I think cause it is on a power line.

So the other day, my gf and I went down to the beach. It was technically the first day of summer and besides being crazy windy, it was a nice day.
So we found a reasonably sheltered part of the beach and I went to work.
I picked out some of the best larger sized rocks I could find, and started covering them in yarn. I hope to do this all summer, and see if any of them survive between my trips down to the beach.
I did a green one.

And a blue one,

And a pink one,

And a multicolored one,

And an orange one,

And last but not least, I did a red one.

Also, do you guys remember the last time I went down to the beach to crochet?
Well the one on the stick is still there! It's a little worse for wear. It looks a little tugged on, and also has bird crap on it, but it is still there!

I am glad that some of my tags remain when I go back to look at them. I hope that same feeling makes other people happy too.
Enjoy!

International yarn bombing day: The morning!

So it has sucked to be at work all day and sneaking peeks at what has been going on around the world in yarn bombing.
And am so impressed with a lot of the things I have seen so far. I cannot wait to see everything once it is all collected.
Anyways, I want to share with you guys my IYBD experience.
On a side note, these are the pictures I took with my phone. My roommates mom followed me around and took pictures. She was really into it and wanted to be a part of my yarn bomb experience. I hope to get the pictures from her later.

First, I planted this lovely mushroom in the garden of this woman who lives near my house. Her garden always kinda makes my day when I am walking home. I hope she likes it.

After that, I tagged the bus stop. Mostly because my gf was waiting for the bus there at the time, but it does look nice.

Then I spent a good 15 minutes (or at least it felt like it. It was actually only 7, but still! 7!) throwing my bolas at the power line to get it up there.
I will have to up load a picture of the bolas close up sometime.

(I chose to put it there because of the two tennis balls on a string that are also up there)
Then I put another mushroom on the grounds of the ledgeslature, under a lovely tree.
I hate to say that I doubt this one lasted long tho.

I did another on these lights down in the inner harbor that look kinda like mushrooms.
A lot of people had positive comments about this one as they walked by as I was putting it up.

And then the grand finale, or the reason why my roommates mom had come along in the first place.
See, I had this grand plan to tag the statues with Katamari heads. (side note: In case you are unsure, Katamari Damacy is the awesomest videogame. I love it). I had The Prince's head for the man, and a Katamari ball for the girls head.

So I started and got them on. A couple tourists were enthralled and took pictures and asked my roommates mom what was going on.
Then the city grounds keeper guy came a long and started being a jerk.
He demanded that I cut those off, and told me I was defacing the statues and that I was disrespecting our soldiers.
You know, had he asked nice and not been a jerk, I probably would have just taken them down.
As it was, I left them on after he walked away.
I knew he would be right back to take them down, but it is the spirit of the thing, you know?

The best part of this story (yes, the guy did take them down. After my roommates mom left me so I could go to work and to meet up with her husband, who had been tailing us in his car the whole time lol, she went back and saw that he'd already removed them... less than 10 minutes... damn) is that after he took them off, my roommates dad, stole them out of the guys wheelbarrow while he was away!
So I still have them!
Hahaha! Yay for International Yarn bombing day!
More to come soon!! Stay tuned for part 2!

Gift for a friend

Wow, drought to drowning.
Also, I think my camera might finally be dead. After many very fatal accidents, it finally succumbed.
Although, if I leave it alone long enough, it is possible that it may recover miraculously like last time.

Anyway, I thought I would show you guys the gift I made for my boss.

I think she'll like it. She really likes pirates and things.
I really hope that she does, mostly cause I am really proud of how it turned out.
Enjoy!

June first is always one of my favorite days

Ketchup post!

So today, while I was downtown, I picked myself up an SD card for my phone so that I could get the pictures off of it. Yay!
So here's the set that I have wanted to show you guys for months.

Me and my gf were waiting for the bus one day and I used my lovely (at the time brand new) pink yarn with that slight orange twist in it to tag the bench at the bus stop.

Tada!
I knew it had mere moments to live, given the high traffic area it was located in.
But when I returned to that bus stop a couple of days later, this is what I found.

I must say, I was really quite surprised to find anything there.
So I decided to repair it, because I was yet again there waiting for the bus.

But alas, when I returned later that week, it was gone all together.
Who knows where lost yarn bombs go?
I'm so glad my phone really acts as a camera now xD

P.s.
Here's a little something I made for my bathroom. Not a yarn bomb, but entertaining none the less.

It's sushi! I call it the "Bathroom Roll".
I don't think it sounds very appetizing. I made this because, well I would normally just stick the extra roll under the sink, this bathroom is a little small and there's no room under the sink.
So sushi!

Summer never comes and a breath for the month of June

Wow. I know I have been gone for awhile, but let's just say entropy finally won over for chaos.
I had end of school/moving/two jobs/everything else.
But I did get some crocheting done in there as well!

Anyway, spring finally sorta broke on the island, so my friends and I went done to the beach (which is totally closer now) and I got the chance to do some yarn bombing!
I wanted to do more, but my one friend was being a downer. My gf on the other hand, collected rocks and shells and laid them out in her own display of art.

You can see them in this picture (you can see her leg too xD), as well as my beach anemone. But we'll get to that.
First off, we were walking along the path towards the beach, and I decided to tag a bench with this delightful scrape piece I have been working on in my free time during breaks and bus rides.

I really like the odd colors that I picked for it xD

(more of my gf xD)
After sitting on and tagging the bench, we headed down to the water.
I was looking for a nice secluded nook that we could hang out in and tag, but apparently everyone had that idea too... at least the hang out part.
I managed to do the beach anemone,

I am really impressed with myself making the stem all knobby and bent, so it really looks like a sea creature but on land.

 I also managed to tag this piece of drift wood that looked like it needed a flag more than my strange fungus ring tag.

But I didn't have a flag.

Just this cute lil tag. It was a little stressful getting it on there. I didn't want to fall and my hands were full of tools. I had to get my buddy to help me. I think it turned out well in the end.

It may not have been the most fun, but I was super happy to get out and do some yarn bombing.
In fact, would be out doing more right now, if it wasn't so damn miserable outside today. I hope summer comes soon.

In the mean time, look forward to June.
I have exciting plans for International Yarn Bombing Day, June 11th, and I am also having a yarn themed birthday party this year, towards the end of June. So hopefully June being full of yarn makes up for a lack luster last couple of months.
and on one last night... I have a few random yarn bombing shots on my phone, but I can't figure out how to get them off of my phone yet...
Enjoy!

Sock for the post

I have been busy with school for all of April.
So busy, that I haven't posted this awesome pic of my pole sock.

I did it a few weeks ago, while I was staying at my gf's house. There is this pole on the way to her house, sticking out of the shrubbery. I imagine it was a sign post at some point, but now it is just a hacked off metal pole sticking out of the ground, ruining the scene.
Or it was.
Now it is this marvelous pole covered in this pole sock!

What do you think?
For me, this screams the epitome of my yarn bombing. It's something cold and sterile from the urban world, and I tried my best to make it more decorative, bright and cheery.
I wasn't sure how to attach it to the pole at first. I knew that if I just slipped it over, it would be gone in a matter of moments. And there wasn't anything I could tie it to (I entertained the thought of tying it to the shrubbery around the base, but I figured that wasn't very nice to the plants). Then I came up with the brilliant idea to duct tape it to the pole.

I brought along my silver sharpie and wrote the following on the black duct tape (for the record, it's actually gorilla tape, which my roomate Alice says works better than duct tape. I dunno. I guess everything I have used duct tape on has worked out pretty well).
"This is Art, not garbage."

I would say the duct tape was a good call, cause it was there last time I check, which was 3 or 4 days after the bomb. That always makes me happy. To see them again.
My gf said someone pulled it up one day. It was stretched out and hanging floppy, but was still secure. No one seemed to want to peel back the tape.
She pushed it all back on for me. She's very sweet. And super supportive of my bombing.
I hope you enjoy.
I totally was gonna do another empty pole by my house. I had even started! But it got signed just today. Darn xD
Just have to keep working on other projects.
Cheers!