This weeks blog post is a follow up on a community yarn bombing project that I have been following on Bruny Island Tasmania. These colourful knitted and crocheted, yarn bombs where produced by a group of highly talented crafters, who are part of an elderly citizens respite group called BIRCH. This talented group have been yarn bombing the Jane Finn community room at the Alonnah Health Centre on Bruny Island, an Island in the Southern Ocean, off the coast of Southern Tasmania in Australia.
The ladies from Bruny Island Respite House BIRCH have been doing some great yarn bombing in the Jane Finn room at the Bruny Island Health Centre in Alonnah on Bruny Island, Tasmania. I slipped in on my day off and snapped some photographs. The ladies at the reception where very accommodating when I asked to take a peek.
Sunflower yarn bomb at the Bruny Island Health Centre
What a great community project done by some great elderly citizens. What wonderful projects people can undertake when they get together over a cup of tea and a biscuit.
Lovely crochet butterflies
The ladies have been knitting and crocheting up a storm & I will be keeping track of their efforts so watch this space for more photographs soon.
I got a bit crazy with the knitting needles & the junk pile & the front door, last year. Not only did I yarn bomb everything in sight but I also made a kind of garland out of old novelty spoons, seen tied to the yarn bombed posts. I love junk, yarn, crochet, craft & knitting.
I found this rock on the beach & yarn bombed it with multi coloured crochet. I crocheted around the rock ( no pattern ) until it fit snugly like a little woolly skin.
I am feeling rather purple today so I have decided to share some photographs of purple yarn bombs. Lovely chunky loose knit tree cosies are the theme of these photographs.
These Yarn bombed trees are well weathered & situated in a paddock on Bruny Island Tasmania The texture & colours found in Yarn Bombing are just right for interesting photography.
YARN BOMBING IS A FUN AND COLOURFUL HOBBY FOR KNITTERS, CROCHET ADDICTS & LOVERS OF ALL THINGS QUIRKY & COLOURFUL. HERE IS SOME YARN BOMB PHOTOGRAPHY TO BRIGHTEN YOUR DAY.
Have a lovely day
I was lucky enough to be part of the YARN BOMBING WINE project at Taranga Winery in South Australia. We yarn bombed an old and gnarled grape vine, which was subsequently photographed and used as the cover art on a wine label. The Wine is a 2012 South Australian Shiraz. See the website for Yarn Bomb Wine
This wine was produced by Corrina Wright at Tarranga Winery South Australia. Special mention goes to Sarah-Jane Cooke for working with me on yarn bombing the vine.
JAZZ UP YOUR OLD BANGLES BY WRAPPING THEM IN YARN. I USED WOODEN BANGLES TO MAKE THESE. THE STRIPED BANGLES ARE MADE WITH A SINGLE BALL EACH OF MULTICOLOURED YARN, THE YARN FORMS GREAT STRIPES AS YOU WRAP IT.
THESE BRACELETS WOULD MAKE THE PERFECT GIFT FOR A CRAFTER, YARN BOMBER OR KNITTER OR CROCHET ADDICT
My mother has this lovely Buddha statue standing serenely by her front door. The winter came & I was doing some yarn bombing around the neighbourhood, so I decided to knit Buddha a pink scarf.
Yarn bombing keeps trees, poles & statues warm and colourful in any season.
YARN BOMBING 