Public workshop where tweens learned to weave friendship bracelets using straw looms.
completed friendship bracelet
Another public workshop where workshop goers learned to finger knit their very own garlands and made pom poms to decorate them with.
Public workshop I taught where participants learned how to finger knit with t-shirt yarn in order to create their own DIY statement necklaces!
Over the course of 6 weeks, I taught cross-generational finger knitting and pom-pom making workshops to seniors and teens at East Los Angeles Library.
Installation Day: The result of the 6 week collaboration with teens and senior citizens in the community of East Los Angeles was a yarn bombing of the library and surrounding park's entrance.
Detail of bicycle rack yarn bomb in front of the library.
Several of the trees were yarn bombed for the project.
Detail of yarn bombed trees. Yarn bombs were made by finger knitting acrylic yarn and attaching handmade pom poms.
Whimsical, colorful, and bright: young adults and seniors collaborated together at workshops I taught at the library to learn how to finger knit and make various-sized pom poms.
Garlands made of acrylic yarn and DIY pom poms decorate surfaces in front of the library.
As part of an after school enrichment program I taught weekly Crochet Club workshops throughout the school year to grades 3 - 7. Projects included teaching students how to crochet hats and dye their own yarn.
I directed the Yarn Bomb O'side (YBO) Project at the Oceanside Public Library for the City of Oceanside's inaugural Art Walk. The project connected local artists, local businesses, and cultural institutions such as the Museum of Art and Library, together in a giant community art project. With the library serving as the epicenter, the work of over 60 fiber artists resulted in 30 yarn bombs being detonated across downtown Oceanside, CA.
I directed the YBO Community Art Project at the Oceanside Public Library for the City of Oceanside's inaugural Art Walk. I taught workshops at library during the weeks leading up to the yarn bombing. Featured here are monsters some of the librarians knitted and crocheted for the entrance to the library.
Many local fiber artists and stitching circles collaborated on the project. This is the work of North County Knit and Crochet Group's yarn bombing of the library's bicycle rack.
Besides the library, revitalizing the once vibrant Artist's Alley in Downtown Oceanside was the focus of the community project. Over 200 squares were contributed from fiber artists all over Oceanside and San Diego County, including the local senior center and elementary school where I also instructed workshops.
The Oceanside Public Library's stitching group contributed over 100 miniature sweaters to the yarn bomb, which hung over the Oceanside Civic Center's reflection pool.
As a thank you for their sponsorship of the YBO project, some fiber artists yarn bombed local french bakery Petite Madeline's tree with cupcakes.
Much like the residents of Oceanside, the yarn squares that were contributed to the YBO project came in all shapes and sizes and were stitched together by a team of volunteers that I led.
In celebration of the city's first Art Walk, the Oceanside Museum of Art also participated in the YBO Community Art Project by yarn bombing an easel with old sweaters.
Some of the yarn squares made by the community were used to yarn bomb the library's meditation rock.