USA Projects

The first week of February was perhaps the most eventful as the CAFAM Granny Squared project got the official support from city hall and Yarn Bombing Los Angeles received a granny square from a celebrity participant!

At this point we have 456 participants from 47 states and 24 countries around the globe. We have already received over 7,000 crocheted granny squares and started sewing the 5 inch squares together to create the colossal granny squares. As this is a major undertaking in and of itself, we have the following granny sewing parties all around the town:

FEB 10.... 11am-4pm...YBLA public outreach booth at Mastodon Mesa.
…………….7850 Melrose Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90046
join YBLA to sew together granny squares
https://www.facebook.com/events/471695329544925/
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FEB 12...6-8pm...Granny Sewing Party at Future Studio
…………….5558 N Figueroa St Highland Park, CA.
join YBLA to sew together granny squares
http://www.facebook.com/events/138152089683710/?fref=ts
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FEB 16...2-5pm... Craft and Folk Art Museum public outreach workshops
……………. 5814 Wilshire Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90036
join YBLA to sew together granny squares and also for our Urban Letters workshop and help decide on the next set of phrases YBLA installs weekly on CAFAM www.cafam.org
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FEB 17.... 11am-4pm...YBLA at Mastodon Mesa.
…………….7850 Melrose Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90046
join YBLA to sew together granny squares
https://www.facebook.com/events/471695329544925/
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Feb 24.... 11am-4pm...YBLA at Mastodon Mesa.
…………….7850 Melrose Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90046
join YBLA to sew together granny squares
https://www.facebook.com/events/471695329544925/

If you’re in Southern California please feel free to stop by and pass the info along to your friends!

Thank you for making all of this happen,
YBLA

PS. daily updates posted on our facebook page https://www.facebook.com/pages/Yarn-Bombing-Los-Angeles/203525286331494?fref=ts

Wow, we are getting there!... So far, we've stitched together enough grannies to make two 18' tall columns of orange and white stripes!!! Yup, that's what we've been working on during the holidays, sewing together the grannies that our participants have been crocheting! :-)

At this point we have a community of 277 participants who are crocheting the individual granny squares and new artists & crafters are signing up every day. We have already received 1734 of the 5000 squares we need to cover the facade of the Craft and Folk Art Museum. With new grannies arriving at our studio at the 18th Street Arts Center in Santa Monica, CA on a daily basis, looks like we'll be in stitching mode for a while!

more to follow soon

Our reaction to the first of the crowd sourced crocheted granny squares Yarn Bombing Los Angeles received back in mid November 2012, which pretty much sums up our excitement when we receive work or feedback from any participant at any point!

We just got 160 granny squares from Susan Cabianco, Farmington, NM that put the total number of squares received over the 1500 mark!!!

We couldn't be happier with the public outreach component of our work which is creating a platform for hundreds of artists and crafters to collaborate for a public art project.

It's about community building through participatory, collaborative and public art practices... and also about having the resources to realize this grassroots effort :-)