IYBD – Awesome!

Here in Devonport is a statue that is a memorial of a much loved local lady,

Nicole, who was unfortunately killed in a car accident.
The statue is treasured and she is often decorated with various
fresh and/or plastic flowers.

Two years ago I thought she looked a bit cold, so I gave her a pair
of leg warmers and a scarf. She really needed some new winter gear
so for International Yarn Bombing Day, I decided to replace them.

I couldn’t throw away the daffodil and breast cancer brooches someone
had pinned on the old scarf so I decided to put them back again!

I also decided to recycle a piece that has been lying around at home for a while.
This piece was originally put up to comment a graffiti exhibition at
Auckland Art Gallery a year ago. They removed it straight away...
But I managed to get it back, so here it is again!

This is what I think about International Yarn Bombing Day!

All photos by Michael Miller

Hot hot hot

I have spent a couple of days in Rotorua.

For you who are not familiar with Rotorua, it’s the most geothermal part
of New Zealand with lots of geysers, boiling mud and steaming pools.

We went to Wai-O-Tapu and I had made a woolly tag to leave behind.

(view towards the Champagne pool)

We also went to a very fun place called Agroventures,
where you can fly on a jet stream or do a bungy jump.
Nope I didn’t do any of those but I raced my son in the Shweeb.
Good fun!

(Image from Agroventures)

So I left a tag behind


While in Rotorua, the terrible earthquake in
Christchurch happened. My thoughts are with you
in this very difficult time...

Family hobby

Mum and sis are visiting from overseas.

They are pretty good at woolly tagging too!

Missed out?

Did you know that he’s already been?

A very Merry Christmas to you all!

I’m back

It’s been a long winter and on top of that August has been awfully wet.
Yarnbombing just hasn’t been that tempting...

But a week ago I started to feel the itch!

Hey everyone:

American love

A couple of weeks ago, I went to the Knit Night at Mecca here in Devonport.

It was very relaxing to chat and knit with other crafty people, over a glass of wine.

I met a lady from the USA, who had spent six months here in New Zealand.
We had a long chat about knitted graffiti and she said she was so inspired by my bits and
pieces around Devonport, that she wanted to put up a couple before she went back!

She left NZ this weekend and look at the lovely woolly tags she left behind!


Look at all the beads!


Love it!

Love in Whangamata

I have had a fab weekend in Whangamata and I left some love behind.

This is the third piece I have left in Coromandel.
I wonder if the ones in Coromandel Town and Whitianga are still there?
If you have seen them, please let me know!

The love of it

There is a very cool UK website called theloveofit.
They write about fun things in life and they have a new article about yarnbombing.
Sandie, who wrote it, and I emailed a bit and, yep, Knitty Graffity is there!

Read the article here

her magazine

The latest issue of her magazine is out and it has a cool article about
knitted graffiti, vegan yarns, knitting on the internet etc.

Read the article here

Recycled graffiti

The pieces I had returned to me from the recent

knitty happening are way too pretty to lie around my lounge.
So tonight I put them up in public again.

I picked a spot where lots of kids (and parents) pass by
when they walk to school. I hope they will enjoy them!

Recycled graffiti – I like it!

Not a very good photo, I know, I will take a new one in daylight!

I also (for the first time!) removed one of my old pieces.

I decided it was time to go to wool heaven...
It’s been there for 10 months – not bad!

Knitters – I hope you’re happy with the new location?
The poles are 17cmx37cm if you feel like adding another piece!

Woolly advertising

A friend of mine asked me if I could help her “do a fence”.
Need I say that she was part of the heartening in Parnell?

They are having a big garage sale at the school and didn’t want just
an ordinary sign. So we made a woolly sign instead!
(And, yes, she asked for permission.)

(Garage sale! Sat 24 April 8am)

Looks pretty cool, doesn’t it?!

Welcome to the fair

Last weekend was the big annual school fair at our school.

I wanted people to feel welcome so I knitted a colorful piece
full of green and blue beads.


The school fair is over but the woolly tag is still there,
welcoming the kids to school.

Let’s stitch up Khartoum Place!

Some art galleries around Khartoum Place here in Auckland
have founded Auckland Art Precinct,
and today they had a special Open Art day.

The invitation to a knitted graffiti happening in a post below,
was to show support for the Auckland Art Precinct.
(Hence the black and yellow colours.)

Today the gorgeous pieces I have had sent to me, were put in place.

Khartoum Place
Yes, it’s right outside Auckland Art Gallery,
where I put up Awesome a couple of weeks ago!

If you walk up the steps you come to Upper Khartoum Place,
where we decided to prettify two bike stands.

450 silver beads leave a challenge to whoever wants to pick it up.

Big thank you

to all the knitters,
to Laurel for helping me putting it up,
and to Mira for taking the fab photos.

The greenest green

An amazingly fluorescent green piece was in my letterbox today!

Eeeek!

Thanks Yvonne!

And I have finally finished my own piece

This is a sneak peak of another piece that is going up on Sunday.
Probably the best one I’ve done so far...

Stay tuned

Woolly mail

Woolly mail have started to arrive in my letterbox.

Look at these amazing pieces!

From Glennie in Devonport, stripy and stylish.

From Megan in Tauranga, a beginner but has still sent me 2 pieces!


Sarah from CottonKiwi made this fab Jolly Rogers. So cool!

Sarah also made this one, a bit curled up now but will look great when put in place.

Sarah’s mum has contributed with this amazing piece full of yellow “knots”!

The Gritty-Knitter in Whanganui sent me 3 funky pieces!

Thanks guys!

On Sunday they will decorate...

To be continued

The Queen

Today there’s a Kid’s Treasure Hunt here in Devonport.
It's organised by friends of mine and they asked me if I wanted to knit a clue for them!

“ The Band Rotunda behind the library has musical notes around the bars.
What is the tune? Find a clue on the banister.”