Road trip!!

So at the end of last month I took a road trip to see a friend who was giving birth soon. It was her sister, mother and I on this trip. My friend gave birth to a beautiful baby girl. In the mean time while we all waited for the newest addition I was busy making things. Two monkeys and some flowers for a yarn bomb. I love to travel and yarn bomb the places I visit even if it is a simple one.

Then last Sunday my P.I.C invited me to the park to do some yarn bombing. We sat there and hung out and watched all the passers by torcher themselves as we sat and crocheted. She made one for the tree and I made one for the lamp post. I love those colors!!! they are so bright an vibrant! I hope you enjoy!!

Crestline

So a good friend of mine asked me to go with him while he had to sit at a bank in Crestline, Ca because he works for a security company and he had to watch the bank. So while I was sitting there I wanted to do something while I was there. I finally remembered a heart pattern I had done. It super easy! And Voila! There you have it!

November yarnbombing

So today I decided that I would go and sit at my local Starbucks and sit and make all 21 of my yarnbombs. Well I finally did what I set out to do. All 21 are made and the need tags added to them and then the distribution can begin. I have done the hardest part of it all now. I think I am going to have to create a special page on my website for this particular event. I have considered doing clusters of them. There are three colors so maybe I will group them together.

I rather like the idea of participating in a, what I am assuming is a world wide event. Well I guess it is safe to assume because I know pixi knit is doing it and she is in England. And I am sure I saw something about it being done in Australia. So then it is! :)

I hope my hearts make people feel special. Love them and take the home and smile every time they see it.

Updated

Well yesterday I FINALLY got around to uploading pictures and things to my computer. I was able to update the website with my latest creations.

I am however two days behind in the 21 days to yarnbomb November. Maybe I will just make a bunch for December.

Stay tuned......

21 Days to yarnbomb in November....

So when I was first invited to join I wasn't going to do it, but now I am rethinking it. I haven't done any yarnbombing in quite sometime. I feel like I should be doing some so people will smile, but I have been so incredibly lazy!!! UGH!! It always seems to win out! So here I am with less then 5 hours to go for the day...... Guess I should get crackin!

Whats next....

Well I had finally completed the yarnbombing for the 18th street arts center. I didnt get everything done that I wanted to do but I got most of it done. It was such a great experience and I had so much fun meeting new people and seeing what they came up with.

I took a few things down but left somethings there so that there would still be something there. I guess there was a memo sent out that I didnt see asking us artists to leave our things up but I did not see it until it was to late.

Now I have to find new homes for the things I took down. Most of which I have plans for!!! yay!!

I have a few other projects that I need to work on before I can get back to my yarnbombing activities!

More to come!

Santa Monica May 21, 2011

UPDATE:


     Went to this months meeting alone. My partner in crime had a wedding to go to so she couldn't make it. BUUUTTT I did get a lot done in the past two months. So far I have the no parking sign/ 4x4 post/ white pole done. They are all right next to each other so I had to make it larger the farther down I went. The colors look awesome!!! I should have brought it so I could put it up, but oh well. I also finished the pole that goes diagonally down on the outside of the building where all my other poles are. It is a yarn that is variegated and goes from dark green to light green to white and starts all over again. I want it to look like ivy and not a pole which I think I accomplished well! YAY!!! :) So i have started on the pole people, which i ned to figure out how to give them arms. I could just have them laying straight down, which would make it way way easy but then where is the fun in not complicating my yarnbombing project even more!!! So after that I am going to work on the white pole that are connected to the no parking sign pole. And if i have time, a.k.a get off my lazy ass and start crocheting like there is no tomorrow (LOL "rapture"), then I will be able to get this all done! YAY!

I love going to the meetings and seeing what the others are working on. This one girl named Laura made a gigantic heart, a real looking one. It looks so great!! I am so excited for this to be done!!

Santa Monica :) YAY!!!

     One day I found out about this yarnbombing event it Santa Monica, Ca. I am so so so super excited about it!! I went to the first meeting on February 19th. It was so great and so inspirational to be in such an artsy atmosphere! I loved being at the 18th street arts center. I went and picked out my spot I wanted. I saw a photo of all the areas that were up for grabs and I instantly fell in love with this section where there are some poles in front a building that prevent the building from being hit. Also, next to that there was a bunch of poles for gas meters and such. I am super super excited to do this. There are a great bunch of people whom are working on this whole project. So far I have about two feet done for a "no parking" sign pole.

I already have something that I want to put up that was donated to me from Ted Elliott who's wife Jan Elliott made sometime before she passed away earlier this year. This will be a tribute to her. I can't wait for the next meeting. I really need to get working on these things so the will be ready for June. 

Craft on my crafty friends!!

New oppertunities

Today I went to an open call yarnbombing at the 18th street arts center. Here is the area's I will be working on..........

So many ideas!!! So so excited for them to all come to life!!!

Ideas are flying around

I have been so busying concentrating on non yarnbombing crocheting and knitting. But I do have a few ideas for new yarnbombs that I can not wait to actually get to making them.

Stay tuned.....

Whims are great!!!

On a whim I decided to drive to San Diego this weekend and visit a friend. She wanted to take me to her favorite beach called Sunset Cliff's, and since I was going to be there I decided to make something. It is small but its still there. :)

Camping and jeeping and yarnbombing... oh my!

This past weekend I went camping with a friend and my sister. We had so much fun. While we were out jeeping around the desert I made a yarnbomb. Nothing to spectacular but I thought it would be nice to leave my mark at the beginning of the trail. Purple and white were the colors t his weekend, as I also yarnbombed or camp spot. I am not sure how long that one will be up because there are camp hosts that sit there and make sure everything is back to normal when everyone else has left the camp area.

Work yarnbomb

So while I was working on all of my gifts for Christmas I was making a blue and white scarf and hat set. The hat was done but after working on the scarf for a while I had noticed that I missed a stitch way back when. Since it was stripped I couldn't just pull it out and fix it. Hence it became my latest yarnbomb. I told my boss at work that I was going to do it and he said ok. It's about a story and a half up in the air on a water pipe. :)

YAY!!!! New stuff comming soon!!

Right now i have a yarnbomb for Valentine's Day, which is looking awesome!!!!

I also have something in the works for St. Patrick's Day!!! I can't wait for you all to see it!

Something shall come eventually

I put my yarnbomb making on the back burner for the holidays. I made 3 scarf and hat sets in about a week and a few days. I was A LOT of work, but everyone loved their gifts so it was WELL worth it!! :) I am trying to decide what colors I want to do next. I think orange and blue, for my sister. She mentioned that one time.

I also want to make some clovers for St. Patrick's day and yarnbomb the local Irish pub! TEE HEE!

On a different not, someone had emailed me about what happened to my life saver yarnbomb. Thanks for letting me know!!!

Date Received	12/20/2010 12:17 AM
Your name	Cathy
Enter your message	Hi - Just to let you know, your Lifesaver yarn bomb at the corner of Ransom and Chicago was cut off by city employees. My husband saw them in them in the act. :-( Drove a friend from out of town around to see your creations. Love the turkey!!

Stolen Pieces......

So far i have had two pieces stolen, or taken down. The first one happened on November 9, which was two weeks after I put up my "lifesaver" yarnbomb. I really loved that one and put a lot of effort into making that one. I have a god idea of when it was taken just not by whom. I like to think that someone admired it so much that they just HAD to have it. It would be nice to know what did happen to it.

The other one that got taken happened overnight. I put up two red and white stripped candy cane pieces during the evening. When I drove by the next day one of them was gone. :( I don't know why just one of them was taken down. The other one (fingers crossed) does not look like it has been messed with. I don't mind if people take them down, i just hope they went to a good home and weren't taken down out of malice.

If you know what happened to them you can write me in my guest book. I would Greatly appreciate it. :)

Happy holidays!!

Oopsy! :)

I have inadvertently made a new yarn bomb. I was making a stripped scarf for the annual family Christmas gift exchange. After a long long time i looked back at what I had done and realized that i missed a stitch one third of the way up. Since I had made it stripped I couldn't just undo what I had done and redo everything, so now i have a new one to put up. I need to go measure some poles in the neighborhood to see where it can go.

Hello

My name is Mj. "Hi Mj!" lol :) I started yarn bombing around April or May of 2010. I had joined a Stitch N' Bitch group sometime before that, and in a newsletter there was a mention about yarnbombing. It sparked my curiosity! I looked it up on Wikipedia and fell MADLY in love!! I wanted to be apart of this hug movement of "rouge knitters." Ever since then it's been loads of fun.

My first one was a pink and white striped street sign pole. The Christmas before my wonderful mother bought me yarn because i was getting heavily involved in crocheting again. So I thought to myself that the pink and white yarn would match well with the plant that went half way up the pole. While I was putting it up at ten o'clock at night the neighbor, whom I knew, came home. He asked what I was doing and he loved it!

 Soon after I made another one. It was purple and green.

And after that I've done it wherever I could. Everywhere I went I tried to do something, leave my tag.

Eventually I got a website, and some "business cards" for tags to leave on my yarn bombs. I have received several email and form submissions from the website. Its been great fun!!