Space Invaders: a group project

Spencer Diamond here.
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!

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

Gazebo

Some friends of mine and myself have a tendency to hang out at this Gazebo on campus.

I have wanted to do tags in this area for quite some time, but I haven't been sure of what, and where.

At some point, I want to do a tag for an actually pillar of the Gazebo itself (I took the measurements today, so I can work on that while school is out), but in the mean time, I have had this small little tag that I did for my trip to Edmonton that I never did use.

Well today it got used!

I decided it blended nicely to the lamp post.

I put it at such a height that it was in the bush, but not over taken by it either. Visible and yet invisible.

Like a ninja.

It looks really high up, but the picture is taken from some stairs and the lamp isn't that big. Maybe 8 feet high total. In this pic, you can also see just the edge of the roof of our Gazebo.

Also, there has been this metal box sticking out of the greenery on campus by the Gazebo since I have been there. Probably longer than that too. It looks like it used to be a power box, or a converter for flood lights or something. Who knows.

Anyway, it was ugly, this metal thing just sticking out.

So I graffitti'ed it! Now it is covered in rainbow joy!

My friend Dave helped me put it up. Note the wrapped it in yarn.

We couldn't really come up with a clever way to put it up on short notice. He had to help me because the box was at least a good couple of inches out if my complete reach and he is much taller than me. I could grab it, but not well enough to get the piece on better than you see in the picture.

All in all, I think I really cheered up our hang out spot.

Hopefully campus security doesn't just take them all down before we go back next week.

Enjoy!