OMG OMG OMG!!!! I am so excited about this one!! I am lucky enough to have been a part of Yarn Corner's recent project to Yarn bomb an entire film clip set for several songs of Gossling's new EP! An overview of the project from Yarn Corner is this:

We will be helping to yarn bomb a series of four videos culminating in the end which is a fifth video - a Gossling concert that will be streamed online. We also have the potential to have Gossling take the set around the country on her national tour.

I joined Yarn Corner when this project was in it's early stages and signed up to be a part of it. There were only a handful of parts left up for grabs and I wanted something small to begin with so I opted to make 5 rubber duckie 'jackets'. The ducks in jackets were intended to sit on the piano. Cool.
We had certain specific colours to work with. I went and bought the 5 little ducks and made jackets for them in different colours from the pallet, decorating each with a contrasting flower just for something different! It wasn't that easy to make a duck jacket!!! I looked at some patterns and tried and tried again but ended up half using a pattern and half inventing my own pattern but it worked!

My Duck Jumper Pattern:

(US terms, 8 ply yarn, 4mm hook)

Row 1: Chain 20 (keeping a slightly looser tension than normal to make working row 2 easier),

SS into first chain

Row 2: Chain 1, SC into each chain and join with a SS to beginning chain 1 stitch

Row 3: Chain 3, 2DC into each stitch, SS into beginning chain 3 stitch

Row 4: Chain 3, *2DC in first stitch, 1DC in next* repeat to end, SS into beginning chain 3 stitch

Row 5: Chain 3, 1DC in each stitch to end, SS into beginning chain 3 stitch

Row 6: Chain 3, 2DCtog to end, SS into beginning chain 3 stitch

Row 7: Chain 3, 1DC into each stitch to end, SS into beginning chain 3 stitch

Put the jumper on the duck with the join at the back, turn duck over to crochet last row whilst on the duck

Row 8: Chain 3 2DCtog to end. SS into beginning chain 3 stitch. 

  

They quacked around at home for a while but then I took them to a Yarn Corner meet and passed them on to the group admins to bomb on the set!
I wasn't overly excited about it until the time started to get closer to the release of the first video...then I started to think, ooh, soon I'm gonna see my Duckies in a film clip! hehe

And here it is, Gossling - Wild Love, Live from Bakehouse Studios:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfLJ3RRTHaM

2nd Song - Heart Killer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2AADvxr4GQ&feature=youtu.be

Here are some photos taken of the set as well.

How AWESOME is that piano!? 

Can't wait for the other 3 songs, and you know what? My son Nazeem and I are Gossling's newest fans! I am loving the song and Nazeem keeps asking me to play it again! :D

Just incase you were worried, I AM still trying to continue the weekly yarn bombing but in a less ... compulsory fashion. I'd have been really annoyed if I got behind with it but this way, it doesn't matter so much if that makes any sense at all! :P
So anyways, when some of my previous yarn bombs were quickly removed or destroyed by unappreciative sorts, someone suggested, 'don't give up, just choose a more adoring audience' - KIDS! Just as well I am a childcare worker!!!!!!
I've had a yarn bomb planned for work for quite some time now. I wanted to put a bird in a nest with some eggs, in a tree outside in the Childcare Centre playground, but I was waiting for autumn when the trees would be relatively bare, making it easier for the kids to spot. ... I couldn't wait any longer so I bombed it inside instead! lol

The little birdie in it's nest has been sitting on my coffee table for a while, being enjoyed by my son, Nazeem. His teacher Ms Mel, was 'jealous' when I yarn bombed my boss' desk a few weeks ago, so this birds nest was always intended for her room and children. This Wednesday morning, when I dropped Nazeem at 'school,' Ms Mel wasn't there yet so I set up a table as an activity for the children, with plants and a branch for the nest to sit on. And here it is :D

And I left a cheeky note for Ms Mel too!

For those interested in the birdie pattern, here it is. This is the first amigurumi pattern I have attempted and it was surprisingly easy :) 

P.S. I have now had requests to yarn bomb other rooms of the centre. Hehe... Does it count if someone asks you to do it? Is is still technically a yarn bomb? I guess it is if it's a surprise as to what and when it will be. But at least I will know this birdie will be appreciated and not destroyed...or rather if destroyed it will be the result of being loved to death! ;) 

This is the first post of a redefined blog. I am quitting my 52 week yarn bomb challenge while I am ahead. While I have been keeping up so far (just) I know I won't be able to keep it up for too much longer as I also like to make things for others and I'm finding it difficult to do it all. And life is also about to get hectic at home as we jump on the IVF roller coaster again.
So, although it will not necessarily be a one-a-week affair anymore, I will still post regularly of my yarn bombing adventures! :D

This weekend was a long weekend and before heading into the city with my family, I picked up a big rose I had recently crocheted, to leave in the city somewhere. I also took with me some green yarn to make leaves and a band for it in the car on the way. I made the band standard pole size (19cm) with the plan to put it on a pole somewhere. 'I'll know it when I see it,' I thought...

We were headed for Moomba but when we got to the city, the parking situation was horrendous and we finally found a park about 3kms away from the festival. However we found ourselves outside the Royal Botanic Gardens so we decided to go there instead as it was a lovely day and all we really wanted was a day out so it didn't matter. It was much more peaceful anyway and Nazeem had the freedom to run around.

First stop, the Children's Garden within the Botanic Gardens. I looked around for places I might plant my bomb...there weren't many poles in the garden and certainly not any the right size. I thought about putting it on a rung on the back of a park bench but hadn't yet found the 'right' place when we climbed up a mini treetop walk in the children's garden. Up there we were standing amoung the tops of giant bamboo and there on a bamboo pole at eye level I knew I'd found the right spot.

from below

What better place to put a flower than in a garden and a children's sensory garden at that!

I'm gonna skip most of the story this time but the pictures are the important part anyway right???? :D

So on the main road near my place, some road work is about to begin and the road has been lined with flouro orange buntings. I noticed that many of the flags are missing and there followed the idea of replacing a few of them with crocheted ones! :P
To go with the flouro theme yet stand out, I went with flouro green! hehe
I made 3 (coz I love odd numbers) in different designs.

On Sunday morning, Nazeem woke earlier than usual and when we go up I thought it the perfect time to go and install the flags. So we drove to the spot and Nazeem in his pyjamas watched from the car as I stitched the flags on. It was a beautiful sunny morning and it was very quiet out. This time I looked up at cars going past just to see if anyone was watching because I normally make myself the only person on the planet but I tried something different this time and you know what? Not many actually noticed I was doing something out of the ordinary. Ha, funny how we expect that everyone must be staring and it's not necessarily the case.

Here they are:

I'm not sure why I didn't take a photo from the other side, I hung them so that the right side was facing the road not the footpath. Perhaps I should have done it the other way but never mind.

Here are the patterns I used for those interested
granny bunting, baby bunting.

I challenged my neighbour to spot my latest yarn bomb before I posted a pic. The next day she found it and was very pleased with herself LOL