Well, fuck

This post is a bit late, but a couple of days after our last yarn bomb we went back to the scene of the crime. Things we saw: benches, trash. Things we did not see: adorable knit things. Why? Why does our city keep taking down happy public art? It's not hurting anyone or anything. And why is cutting our knitting off of benches in the downtown square more important than picking up the empty food wrappers two feet away?

And no one got arrested, the end.

We had yarn bomb No. 2 and 3 tonight! In what is apparently becoming a tradition, here are some shitty cell phone pictures taken in the dead of night. Enjoy!

We hit up the downtown square with some darling handles for the benches. We tried to look inconspicuous, but its surprisingly difficult to casually stitch things to benches. 

To make up for our lack of activity last month we dropped these lovelies as well. These gator feet were originally meant for some parking meters, but we all know how that project ended (in scissors and tears). Instead they found a lovely new home on a bench in the Sun Center.

Pretty flowers

So I recently discovered how much fun it is to knit flowers. And the cabal's current project is knitting little handholds for a park bench downtown. Since our city is mean to homeless people, we have armrests in the middle of the bench, so it's taking a little longer than I'd like. But today I realized how cute my yellow flowers would look on the bench. And so I present to you, a blurry picture of another yarn bomb in progress:

Yarn bomb sadness

Sadly, our first yarn bombs were taken down a day or two after we put them up. But rest assured they looked bitchin'. This is the first one we sewed on. If you can't read the embroidery, it says "OM NOM" because we put it outside a delicous coffee establishment.

Detonation

More (hopefully less shitty) photos to come.

The Target

Pre-yarn bombing

So we (the We Share Needles cabal) are all geared up for our first yarn bombing, and have plans to start small with a parking meter cozy in downtown Gainesville. Right now I'm making a long, stockinette rectangle to sew on the meter poll. It's a pretty horrible yellow acrylic yarn, so we're excited to get rid of it and move on to the shiny new acrylic yarn we got today on our craft store field trip. We got two skeins of bulky multi-color. One is pretty much rainbow colors, and the other is shades of green and blue. More excitement to come.