I recently joined Instagram and have been excited to share photographs of my yarn bombs on Instagram. It’s a lot of fun & whilst it’s actually new technology it has that lovely old fashioned feeling that I used to get with a Polaroid camera & it has a vibrant immediacy about it. So much fun. I thought I’d share some of my Instagram photographs on my blog.
THIS TREE IS BEING YARN BOMBED WITH A BASIC KNITTED TEXTILE. THE POLAROID PHOTOGRAPHY HIGHLIGHTS THE COLOURS & TEXTURES BEAUTIFULLY.
THESE POLAROID PHOTOGRAPHS ARE ALL SNAPS OF KNIT GRAFFITI OR YARN BOMBING. THESE ARE SIMPLE FENCE POSTS AND LAMP POLES ENCASED IN COLOURFUL KNITTING.
I PUT TOGETHER THIS POPCORN YARN BOMBING KIT AS A BIRTHDAY GIFT FOR A FREIND.
I HAND ROLLED THE LITTLE POPCORN BALLS OF WOOL & ADDED A PAIR OF KNITTING NEEDLES
MY FRIEND LOVES DOING CRAFT & THIS WAS A PRACTICAL, FUN & WHIMSICAL HANDMADE GIFT THAT I COULD EASILY PUT TOGETHER MYSELF
I WRAPPED IT WITH SOME CELLOPHANE & TIED IT WITH SOME SCRAP RIBBON LEFT OVER FROM A PREVIOUS CRAFT PROJECT
I GOT THE POPCORN BUCKET FROM THE REJECT SHOP, BUT YOU COULD DECORATE YOUR OWN BUCKET OR RECYCLE AN OLD ONE AS LONG AS IT’S NOT GREASY FROM BUTTER RESIDUE. AFTER THE WOOL HAS BEEN USED THE BUCKET CAN BE RE-USED FOR A MOVIE NIGHT.
I SNAPPED THESE POLAROIDS OF THIS GREAT YARN BOMBED BICYCLE ON RUNDLE STREET IN ADELAIDE, BACK IN 2012. I LOVE THE CROCHET OWL & RAINBOW KNITTED CROSSBAR.
YARN BOMBING BIKE RACKS WITH KNITTING & CROCHET IS EVEN MORE FUN THAN KNITTING A TEA COSIE
BIKE RACKS LOOK A LOT LIKE RAINBOWS
YARN BOMBING IS A FORM OF CRAFT, STREET ART, PUBLIC ART & ALL THINGS NICE
MY FRIEND SARAH-JANE YARN BOMBED HER CHILDHOOD TRIKE & DONT IT LOOK SWEET
2012 WAS THE YEAR I TRULY EMBRACED YARN BOMBING. BELOW ARE A HANDFUL OF POLAROIDS OF SOME OF MY PROJECTS FROM THE PAST YEAR.
A COLOURFUL POLAROID OF ONE OF MY FAVORITE YARN BOMBING PROJECTS. A BROKEN KIDS BIKE THAT I FOUND IN THE NEIGHBOURS RUBBISH PILE & BROUGHT BACK TO LIFE WITH KNITTING & CROCHET. I STUFFED THE HANDLE BARS WITH POLYFIL TOY STUFFING TO FATTEN THEM UP.
I AM BASICALLY SCARED OF GUNS. I THOUGHT I WOULD SOFTEN UP THESE TOY GUNS BY COVERING THEM IN CROCHET & KNITTING.
YARN BOMBING TOYS HAS BEEN A LOT OF FUN FOR ME & IT’S A GREAT WAY TO REPURPOSE WORN OUT & OVER-LOVED TOYS
CRAFT, KNITTING, YARN BOMBING & PHOTOGRAPHY ARE MY FAVOURITE HOBBIES.
EVERYTHING LOOKS GOOD COVERED IN KNITTING & EVERYTHING LOOKS CUTE & COLOURFUL IN POLAROID PHOTOGRAPHY.
YARN BOMBING OR KNIT GRAFFITI IS MY MOST CHERISHED FORM OF STREET ART & A NICELY TEXTURED YARN BOMB ALWAYS MAKES ME SMILE.
YARN BOMBING CONTINUES TO BE A FUN & CREATIVE MIX OF TRADITIONAL CRAFT & STREET ART. THESE SWEET KNITTED BUGS & BEE’S HAVE BEEN STITCHED TO A STREET SIGN.
CROCHET BUTTERFLIES ADORN THIS YARN BOMBED POLE OUT THE FRONT OF MY LOCAL MP’S OFFICE.
YOU REALLY CAN YARN BOMB ANYTHING & YOU DON’T NEED TO BE A MASTER CRAFTSPERSON JUST BASIC KNITTING OR CROCHET SKILLS ARE ENOUGH OR YOU COULD JUST CUT UP OLD JUMPERS & SEW THEM ONTO TREE’S, POSTS, FENCES & TOYS.
WHAT I REALLY ENJOY ABOUT YARN BOMBING IS THE WAY IT BRINGS A KIND OF ALICE IN WONDERLAND FEEL TO EVERYDAY OBJECTS.
