Cat and dog crocheted raindrops in Vancouver.
Howie Woo
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They're at it again! Yarn bombers have set their sights on the Olympics and they are "improving the urban landscape one stitch at a time." Those subversive knitters and crocheters are bombing Vancouver with yarn graffiti.
When I wrote a post last month about Yarn Bombing, the Olympics were just a twinkle in the yarn graffiti artists' eyes. Now Vancouver is awash in corporate advertising, tourists, scary black vehicles, athletes, news agencies...and yarn!
Authors Mandy Moore and Leanne Prain, the covert textile street artists who wrote Yarn Bombing: The Art of Crochet and Knit Graffiti, hail from Vancouver. So, it would be only fitting that the Olympics and Vancouver's public spaces would be the recipients of some fine yarn artistry.
This yarn grafitti, "Old Lady Bomb," by Oriana, can be seen in Stanley Park, Vancouver. For more about this installation, check out Yarn Bombing:
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Vancouver's residents are both prideful and sensitive about their cities rainy reputation. So far the Olympics have sampled a bit of rainy Vancouver days. Vancouver blogger and crocheter, Howie Woo decided to do something to ease Vancouver's reactivity to their rainy city.
"In Vancouver, we're sensitive about our reputation as a rainy city...With the Olympic-sized attention arriving here soon, our rainy self-consciousness has resurfaced...I thought it might be therapeutic to crochet some raindrops."
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Yarn bombing the Olympics has the potential to put smiles on the faces of millions of visitors to Vancouver.
Here's Howie Woo's rainy day post.
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