Feel the love

A friend has just sent through these photos of a band of yarn bombers' attempts to spread knitted love throughout Chipping Norton. I haven't seen any yarn bombing for a while and these just made me smile. Thanks Mike! 

Happy Valentine's all:

Antony Gormley vs the yarn bombers

My auntie Kath sent this link through to me this afternoon - I absolutely love it because it's a culmination of two of my favourite things: Antony Gormley's iron figures and knitting!
You can read more about it on the BBC's site here, but I've taken the liberty of borrowing one of their images for your viewing pleasure:

Knitted tree warmer

We drove past London Fields on our way out of town for Easter on Thursday evening and saw this extremely chic tree. It's wearing its very own jumper - a 'tree cosy', if you will - complete with pom poms. Amazing.

Yarn Bomb, part 2

OK, I know I've done a blog post on yarn bombing or 'knit grafitti' before so this is a bit of a cheat, but there was a series of images on the subject on the Guardian website today (thanks to my friend Mike for pointing it out to me!) and I love this one so much, I couldn't resist:

[Image taken from the Guardian website]

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Yarn bomb!

According to the New York Times, a new phenomenon is taking over the world - yarn bombing, people!

Also known as grandma graffiti, yarn bombing takes the traditional craft (still associated with old grannies) of knitting and the most maternal of gestures (wrapping something cold in a warm blanket) and transfers it to the concrete and steel structures of the urban landscape. Look out in a city near you - yarn bombers are taking their brightly coloured and fuzzy work to Europe, Asia and beyond.

[Image taken from New York Times website]