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!

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