Tag Archives: Yarn bombing
Jan van Riebeeck gets a much-needed Heritage Day makeover
Posted on 23. Sep, 2011 by Jonathan Cherry.
Early this morning we followed the trail to take a few snaps of a Heritage Day yarn bombing that that we got wind of happening in Adderley Street.
We think a World Design Capital nominee city is a little lost without a splash of colour on it’s old statues now and again…especially on the occasion of Heritage Day. Jan van Riebeeck even seemed to enjoy his South African flag warmers.
It’s all part of Virgin Active’s Leg Warmer Love guerrilla yarn bombing campaign.
Bok Friday Bomb
Posted on 09. Sep, 2011 by Jonathan Cherry.
Danie Craven get's into the spirit of the RWC
It’s the start of the 2011 Rugby World Cup today – and celebrating in true sartorial style the Danie Craven statue at Coetzenburg in Stellenbosch has been adorned with knitted Springbok colours.
Pote vir die Bokke
Even the dog got the treatment. GO BOKKE!
It appears to be all part of the ambient Leg Warmer Love ‘yarn bombing series’ that has been popping up on the streets of Cape Town.
Yarn bombing: Jamie Lee Curtis visits the Old Biscuit Mill
Posted on 29. Aug, 2011 by Jonathan Cherry.
In the 80′s Ronald Reagan, aerobics and leg warmers were huge. If you were alive in the 80′s and didn’t hang out in an aerobics class sporting woolen warmers you were less than noticeable as this [slightly NSFW] clip from the movie Perfect demonstrates.
With a ‘leg warmer yarn bombing’ at the Biscuit Mill on Saturday and the name of Virgin Active been thrown around as being behind it – could we be seeing the return of Jamie Lee Curtis, leotards, leg warmers and the Axel F sound-tracked studio session? Awesome!
More pics here
Yarn graffiti in Cape Town
Posted on 20. May, 2011 by Jonathan Cherry.
Mount Nelson MyCiti stop
Heard of yarn graffiti / yarn bombing / guerrilla knitting? According to Wikipedia – it’s a type of graffiti or street art that employs colorful displays of knitted or crocheted cloth rather than paint or chalk. So far we’ve only seen it being done in foreign locations – but now it seems the brand new MyCiti bus route as been tagged with a colourful splash of jersey.
More pics here
Boom!
