A couple of weeks ago I did a little private yarn bombing project. I was inspired by someone near and dear to me who had been doing a lot of work with rocks in her yard. Once the idea struck me, I couldn't wait to do this.
OK, so I covered 4 rocks and one brick, for a little extra humor.
I began with this rock and it remains my favorite. This one is crocheted. I made up the design as I went along, "engineering" it to fit.
It was a fun challenge to figure out how to crochet something to fit around an ovoid.
The rest were just rectangles that I knit on relatively large needles and sewed closed around the rocks. I decided to make plastic tags for each rock that said 1/5, 2/5, etc., so that my victim could figure out that there were five to find. When I placed them in her yard, some were more obvious than others .
When I am surrounded by rocks like these -
...it really doesn't seem THAT bizarre to cover rocks with fuzzy yarn.
To see some really amazing yarn bombing projects, check out yarnbombing.com. One recent project that is particularly stunning is shown in the post http://yarnbombing.com/hello-spring. I'd love to know how they got the fire department to help with the installation!
