[Noisebridge-discuss] yarn bombs

[Erik Nelson]

I'd heard of these before, but hadn't actually ever seen one. Aren't they
sometimes knitted in place, with haste, and by groups of people?
On Mar 11, 2011 10:15 PM, "Jared Dunne" <jareddunne at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes, I dig it also. I guess some of the original yarn bombers were hitting
> all these trees around some town. The local authorities sorta freaked and
> some reason found it very subversive and 'terrorist'-y. I personally like
> the idea of trees with sweaters. Perhaps it's inhumane to force them to
wear
> warm clothes during global warming? Bike racks seem like fair game
though..
> heh
>
> J-
>
> On Mar 11, 2011 6:46 PM, "jim" <jim at systemateka.com> wrote:
>
>
> my pal said "hey, stop", looking down at a
> bycicle rack that was bolted to the sidewalk.
> at the top of the rack was a little knitted
> scarflet. "that's a yarn bomb", she said.
> there's this movement of people that are
> knitting things and sneaking up on doorways and
> fences and trees and wrapping their knitstuff
> around them and quick-binding the two ends.
> yeah, even trees, some of the yarn bombs
> are really big.
>
> 's news to me. tho't you'd like to know.
>
>
>
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