Guerrilla knitter on the loose
I hiked in Gabriola’s 707 Acre Wood today, and came across this: a few trees wearing, um, sweaters? Really. I am not making this up. Somebody has been knitting for trees, and now several trees are sporting fanciful knitted stripes.
I don’t know many knitters, and don’t knit myself. But a friend who does knit came for dinner tonight. She says what we have here is a case of guerrilla knitting.
So there you go, Gabriola: there’s a guerrilla knitter in our midst.
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3 Responses to “Guerrilla knitter on the loose”
qmackie on 16 Mar 2010 at 12:12 am #
Also known as “yarnbbombing”: there is, of course, a blog dedicated to it.
http://yarnbombing.com/
http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=1345444
I think this is to be encouraged! Gabriolans! Flash those needles and make sure this is not purls before swine…
Stetler on 16 Mar 2010 at 12:23 am #
Some of the stair posts at the Whalebone beach are also wearing sweaters. Or maybe they’re tube socks.
Gabriolan on 16 Mar 2010 at 9:54 pm #
qmackie – Thanks for the links! That’s fascinating. Glad to know Gabriola is right in there with the DIY installation artwork thing.
Stetler – Well! I’ll have to go down to Whalebone and take a look at those stair posts, then. Thanks for letting us know about those.