Toronto Craft Alert

Yarn Bombing at the Textile Museum of Canada

Hello Fellow Yarn Bombers,

We are excited to announce a special project we’re working on with the Textile Museum of Canada. As patrons of the museum we’ve noticed that there is fairly low visibility from street. After talking with one of the museum Board Chairs, and observing the many city bike racks and planter in front of the museum we decided that it would be fun to form a crew and “yarn bomb” the racks and planter.

Yarn Bombing is the act of re-claiming boring, sterile areas by creating colourful knitted, crocheted, woven, macrame, etc. covers or cozies out of yarn. Usually a group of yarn lovers will form a group or “crew”, make the cozies, and do the installation late at night – creating an overnight transformation of a space.

We are planning a large project for the front of the museum for both the planter and the bike racks.
Our plan is to decorate the planter and bike racks with a large cozy made up of a multitude of swatches and add “flowers”, and other adornments to the existing foliage.

If you are interested in submitting knitted, woven, quilted or crocheted items such as flowers, swatches, granny squares, amigarumi, etc., please mail them to the address below by May 15th! We would love to get this project up in time for the Museum’s annual Yardage Sale.

Please be advised that your submissions cannot be returned to you
If you are interested in sending swatches please do not send any that are bigger than 7″ square. Please have fun with textures, colours, fibres and applications.

If you have any questions, we invite you to contact at: fibrelabyarns@gmail.com

Address for submissions:
Alisa McRonald
23 Murdock Ave
Toronto, ON M4C 1E3
Attn: Yarn Bombing

You may include your name… or you may remain anonymous, if you wish.
Contributions and participation will be acknowledged on the Textile Museum Volunteer Blog. (www.strandnews.ca)

To read more about yarn bombing please see the link below:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yarn_bombing