Yarn Bombing: part 2

A little present for my bff's parents, on a neighborhood street in south Toledo. My girls were with me when I left this, and as I was tying it to the basketball pole, my DD was yelling, "Mom, I don't think they are going to like that! They don't even know you! They won't like a stranger put knitting on their pole!". After I explained that yes, I did know them (since I was 4 years old) and yes, they would like it, DD was mad at me for laughing about it. "Why do you think something that is pretty is funny?" So suddenly, the knitting went from being a thing that would annoy someone to being something pretty. Ah, the mind of a 6 year old...

Yarn Bombing: my new hobby

I adore this.

And so tonight, with my best buddy Melissa, we did this:

(Airport Highway in south Toledo, right in front of the Happy Rose buffet.)

Then we put this on our friend Tom's car. A little while later, I got a phone call. "Michelle, did you put some knitting on my car?" I haven't laughed so hard in a while. Neither had Tom. And neither had Melissa. Yeah, it was like we were 12 again. I love being silly.


I need to figure out how to do this: