YARN BOMB!

I belong to a crazy group of knitters and crocheters.....we meet each Tuesday night and call ourselves the Fiber Floozies! Here is a little more about us....
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Have you ever heard of a yarn bomb?! They are fun, silly and very colorful...google yarn bomb and you will see a variety of examples! Locally, there have been yarn bombs in Lawrence and Wichita recently. Tuesday Night Knitters yarned a piano downtown during the summer for Symphony in the Flinthills. During Dirty Kanza, someone yarn bombed a bike downtown.

Many months ago one of our members, Melinda, had a great idea to Yarn Bomb the Central Care Cancer Center (where she works) in October for Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Immediately the Floozies were on board and starting planning. We started making pink pieces to be wrapped around trees, poles, and more. Melinda found body part patterns that we could knit or crochet representing the different types of cancer. All of the planning and knitting came together on Tuesday, October 2nd. In the cover of darkness, dressed in black, we met with our supplies and spent several hours bombing the Cancer Center with pink yarn! It was so fun! We covered the trunks of about ten trees, several poles, a bench, a bike rack, bushes, and Melinda made an educational display inside the Cancer Center.
 

The crazy yarn bombers!



Barb made a wreath with our knitted and crocheted boobies!

  

We hung the boobie wreath and "You Have Been Yarn Bombed" inside. We each signed the sign using a funny yarn pseudonym...like "Happy Hooker" or "Granny Squared"!

  

Up close..we used all types of pink yarn.

  

Several of the body parts in our "Body Part Tree". We made a bone, uterus, brain, heart, kidneys, lungs, eyes, ears, pancreas, testes, lymph nodes, and more!



Three trees right at the entrance of the Medical Arts Center.



I love the contrast of the pink yarn with the green leaves!

 

The Ribbon Tree...there are over 20 different ribbons representing all types of Cancer Awareness.

 

Tree with fringe!



The display inside Melinda made. Each body part we made has information beside it about that type of cancer.



Several Floozies were on KVOE on Wednesday morning. I went over my lunch on Wednesday to take more daytime pictures. You can find a bunch of photos on Facebook under our Tuesday Night Knitting page. We all had a fun time and hope the community enjoyed our little "prank". I had a friend make up t-shirts and we are going to have a few printed. We are hoping to make an annual event out of our yarn bomb!!