Center Parcs

I've just got back from a rather wonderful hollybols at Longleat Center Parcs. It was a fun packed week with all my chums and I wish it hadn't ended!


Its been an absolute age since I did any yarn bombing. I was actually starting to feel like a bit of a fraud when talking to people about it. This holiday was the perfect opportunity to get stuck in again. I've been making large pieces on the knitting machine - its the only thing its good for to be honest - and had one stripey number which would look perfect on a tree. On the cycle path near our villa I donned this lovely tree with its new woolly attire.

Actually, I was not the first to yarn up there. I forgot to get a pic but there were some pieces there done by  Handy Roach


P.S. I've got well into Instagram lately so a lot of my pics will now have a sepia tone!

Little bit of collaboration

The Bristol Knitivist were out in force a few sunday's ago. We decked GF Bridge with knitty things that have a sunshine or camoflage theme

I contributed a camo rail cosy topped of with camo pom poms and a rail cosy with natural camo butterflies (although as Twee as Volk pointed out, these actually look more like squid that butterflies!)

And here are some of the other fabbo knitty bits from the other knitivists

I go passed the bridge every Monday after choir praccy and quite a few peices are still there which is ruddy marvelous

All Dressed up with Nowhere to Go

Another Sunday morning yarn bomb. Blue the Wow Gorilla is now all dressed up for a night on the tiles.

I did it all in seed stitch to stop it curling. Bow tie is held in shape with mini straws. I tied it on pretty tight to try and stop people pulling it off over his head, I'm sure they'll find a way though.

This is going to be my last yarn bomb for a while, lots of pressies to make and would quite like to build up some stock for selling.

Ta ta

Nanna does Liverpool

So I get home from one night away and the Gorilla's bikini top has been pinched and its bottom has become very very saggy! While out with Bobby and Nicky at the tail end of the Harbour fest I made up a new top. Just spent ten mins adding the top and repairing the saggy pants. Hopefully they will fair a little better now.

We were at Ruth and Paul's wedding this weekend in lovely Liverpool. In what is becoming a bit of a pattern, for their wedding pressy I made them a robot loo roll cover. Paul loves his robots - they are a significant feature of a lot of his art projects. Ruth's art involves all things sinister and challenging so I thought this a rather fitting gift

Introducing Vampbot!

Hes naughty, very very naughty

They seemed very pleased with their gift which made me feel nice and warm inside. They weren’t the only ones who liked him though. Some of the bar staff tried to steal him! – poor show eh. He was thankfully retrieved so all is well.

While in a different city I thought is almost criminal not to add a little knitted item to the outdoor furniture. We were staying at really cool place called Parr Street Studios. At the bottom of Parr street, outside Cream is a roundabout with some lollipop structures. I added a pacman and ghosty

Gorilla Knitting - Wow Gorillas gone swimming!

Up at the crack of dawn this morning. Out Bombing by 6.30.


As soon as the Wow Gorillas were released I was determined to get them in some sort of knitwear.


This lucky one gets a Gorillakini!

I imagine it will be gone by the end of the day, but I won't know as I'm off to a wedding in 10 mins!


Ta ta

Oooh look Nanna is in PRINT!

This is all very exciting. Theres an article in the summer issue of Cloth all about Yarn Bombing and theres a bit about lil ol' me!

Its all down to Pip who put me in contact with Matthew who wrote the article (and what a lovely read it is too). THANKS PIP!!!!!!!

I'm thinking of subscribing, its such a lovely lovely publication, all about crafty fun things.

Its been over a month since I tied anything to a lampost, knitted pressies have just taken priority recently. Hopefully I'll be able to put something up for Harbour festival.

ATP Guerilla Knitting

Just got back from the Animal Collective ATP. It was triffic wonderful goodness, mostly due to the company of Bobby, Sian and JP. I kept up the knitting while I was there and dished out finger tache to nice people I met and some people I think are brilliant like Ariel Pink. He wasn't quite sure what it was and just kept smelling it.


Here are some peices I put up around the pavilion

Mega tache only lasted a few hours.




This Space Invader went up on Saturday lunchtime and stayed there for most of the weekend. I saw a chap wearing it like a hat on Sunday night though - never thought I'd see that!



Sorry, pics aren't great, I was having too much fun! Will put more up when I get them off Rob and Sian.
Some guy tweeted that he saw them and thought they were cool - WINNING!

Cottage Inn Space Invader

We went out on the Tower Belle to Beese's tea rooms for my Birthday celebrations on Good Friday. We headed to the Cottage Inn for booze and chips afterwards. I popped up an old favourite while we were there with the help of Sailor Cat.

I popped over the next day and it had been turned round. That happens to allot of my yarn bombs actually - strange.

Nanna does Africa

Well, Well, Well, I have 3 reasons to celebrate today.

1.  Its me Birfday
2.  I’m back in the wonderful Brizzle after our holly bols in South Africa
3. I managed to do 3 Yarn Bombs while I was away!

I had an incident at Heathrow when I forgot to move my knitting from my hand luggage to my suitcase. I had to chuck a pair of needles. Luckily within 1 hr of landing in Johannesburg, I was able to pick up a replacement pair – RESULT.

The pieces I put up are technically not great, but their positioning is pretty impressive.

First up, an old faithful at the Union Buildings in Pretoria. These are very impressive buildings that house the SA government and president offices. Jacob Zuma could well have been watching me as I attacked his grounds! The buildings look out over a really beautiful large sloping garden and here is where Nanna’s SA yarn bomb No. 1 was placed.

We were staying with and being guided around by Gareth, my Dad’s mate from their Uni days. He was really enthusiastic about the yarn bombing and encouraged me to make up a couple of pieces of the SA National Park’s logo – the Kudu.

Here is the logo

Here is a Kudu we saw in Kruger Park (check out those curly horns!)

 And here is my Graffiti

This is positioned in the Berg en Dal rest camp, a short walk from reception. Dad hid me while I was putting it up but as soon as we walked away some rather intrigued staff members started fiddling with it. It was still there when we left though.

Last of all I put another Kudu logo up at the Royal Natal park in the Drakensberg Mountains. It’s a triffic place for walks with some spectacular views. Although this is not technically the logo for this park, I still think it works.

In gratitude for Gareth’s enthusiasm I also did a little sampler of a Rainbow trout to live at his Trout Farm near Dullstroom. Will add a pic shortly.

You can probably tell from the pics above that I only took a few different coloured yarns with me. I also made the majority of the peices in the back of a Landrover hurtling down the N3 and N1.

Back to the Bombing - Walrus and Space Invader

I've not been feeling 100% this week, I think I caught some disease floating around at work. I decided to skip gyming and spend the evenings on the sofa knitting up some pieces for public display - its been far too long.


I've noticed Gaol Ferry Bridge is becoming a bit of a Bristol yarn bombing Mecca, so I wanted to get in the mix.


Following the finger tache success, I made a big one for the railings so people can squat down in front of it and pretend they have a super large walrus.

I also put up a mini classic

As this seem to be a knitting friendly location I'm hoping these two bad boys stay up for a while, but they are at grab level so I'm probably being too optimistic