Yarn Bombing – making the concrete jungle fluffier

What is yarnboming? Guerrilla knitting or ‘yarnstorming’ in the UK is when knitting or crocheting pops up somewhere unexpected. Knit the City is the London authority on yarnstorming:

Knit the City

Recent escapades include a giant orange crochet squid loose in the Natural History Museum:

Darwin and plarchie, the ten tentacled terror

Yarn Bombing is the US equivalent. They’re currently calling for crochet cherry blossoms:

Yarn Bombed cherry tree

International Yarn bombing day will be June 11th 2011. Check back soon, as Fluffer Nutter plans to cover a tree in wool, which might look something like this:

 

Yarn Bombed Tree

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