[Noisebridge-discuss] yarn bombs

Corey McGuire coreyfro at coreyfro.com
Sat Mar 12 04:05:39 UTC 2011


Kids these days, always up to some kind of Knitchief!

On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 7:52 PM, Erik Nelson <erik.nels0n99 at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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