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Reminder: this blog has moved!

TheFUZZ is now at thefuzzhawaii.tumblr.com, and we're posting information about how you can lend a hand with the yarnbomb being finished this weekend!

This Saturday and Sunday (June 21 and 22, 2014), we're seaming up hundreds of knit and crochet squares in preparation for Monday morning. No experience needed, and we'll provide all the materials. After the exhibit, the squares will be cleaned, repaired, and donated as blankets to organizations including Project Linus.

GO (green)

ArchiPURLago and granny²did a quick collaboration on this BikeBike rack so that a local reporter could tag along with us, and we're glad we did! Once ArchiPURLago saw the "GO" in the BikeBike racks, she couldn't unsee it (and did this Ready Set GO yarnbomb), so we did a bit of a visual pun and used green yarn to spell out GO and accented it with leaves, a tree, and a woodgrain patterned handlebar.

#ourkakaakowifi and TheFUZZ Hawaii

TheFUZZ was commissioned to do a yarnbomb for the launch of Our Kaka'ako WiFi (providing free high speed WiFi in Kaka'ako), and we cranked up the knitting machines to get it done on a tight timeline.

We commissioned Patrice Walker to use her phenomenal crochet skills to make a functional QR code panel (scan the code with a smartphone or tablet app, and it takes you to the Our Kaka'ako website). She's detailed the process on her blog, Yarn Over, Pull Through, and I'm looking forward to trying out the Fair Isle crochet method she used. Patrice has done a lot of Crochet By Numbers work, but this project was a little different for her and I appreciate her taking the time to show us how she planned and then executed the project!

ArchiPURLago has been having fun playing with reflective yarn - this photo shows the embroidery in indirect light. The first photo in this post shows the embroidery with flash photography, lighting up!

This was a fun project to take on, and we'll be taking advantage of the super high-speed wi-fi to post more photos from the scene! We've just started a Tumblr to make it easier to post photos on the fly, by the way (thefuzzhawaii.tumblr.com), and have been hashtagging Instagram and Twitter posts with #thefuzzhawaii to make it easier to find out what we've been up to.

Looking to contribute to a yarnbombing?

If you are interested in contributing to a yarnbombing:

Yarn Bombing Los Angeles will be covering the facade of the Craft and Folk Art Museum in Los Angeles with granny squares in the spring of 2013, and you can help by sending them crocheted granny squares. Please read through their call for entry carefully to be sure you are sending them what they need!

A secret yarnbombing project in Honolulu is currently in the works. 4" x 4" (10 cm x 10 cm) squares of knit or crochet in any color/fiber are requested, with a deadline of December 15, 2012. YarnStory in Honolulu is available as a dropoff point for finished squares, and there is also a big bag of assorted yarns that are available for use in yarnbombing (for this project or any other project, just go to YarnStory and tell Kim you'd like to pick up some of the yarn for yarnbombing - it's free!).

If you have yarn to donate, YarnStory will accept donations of clean, useable yarn for yarnbombing. TheFUZZ is specifically seeking natural fiber yarns (e.g. 100% wool) in any color/weight/amount, but feel free to bring in whatever you have.

And The BIG Announcement is...

Honolulu Museum of Art Spalding House got YARN BOMBED by TheFuzz!

In conjunction with the second annual International Yarn Bombing Day—June 9th, 2012, Honolulu's inaugural yarn bombing crew, ArchiPURLago, Granny² and Hanasaurusrex, a.k.a. TheFuzz, and their super crew of volunteers and contributors, tagged the gardens of Spalding House.

Representing knit and crochet, traditional and contemporary, funky and fab, we've gone from the teeny tiny to the larger than life, and we'd love to share it with you!

You can come visit TheFuzz yarn bombs anytime in June and through Art Spree in July, 2012.

Every Wednesday and Thursday in June from 2–4pm TheFuzz founders will be at Spalding House for Sit & Knit and we'd love it if you came by to hang out! If you're a knitter or crocheter, bring a project. If you've never knit or crocheted in your life, that's okay, just bring yourself and we'll answer any questions you may have or if you're down for it, we'll show you how!

We will also be hosting a yarn bombing workshop and lecture this weekend, June 16–17th. See below for details.

June 16th, 2012—Yarn Bombing Workshop, 12pm–4pm

We'll have various tools of the trade to show and a project you can make to yarn bomb yourself!

June 17th, 2012—Yarn Bombing Lecture, 2pm–4pm

Come learn about yarn bombing from ArchiPURLago, Granny² and Hanasaurusrex. We'd love to meet you!

July 14th, 2012—Art Spree—Pom Pom Bomb, 10am–4pm
TheFuzz will be at Honolulu Museum of Art Spalding House's annual art-and-performance family fun day making pom poms to yarn-bomb.

The Honolulu Museum of Art Spalding House
2411 Makiki Heights Drive
Honolulu, Hawai‘i 96822
808-526-0232

If you're not familiar with Spalding House, In July 2011, The Contemporary Museum gifted its collection and assets to the Honolulu Academy of Arts, merging the two museums.

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hanasaurusrex

Big Project Progress!

Wow! "That's a ton-o-yarn," you say! Well, you'd be right. Stay tuned for the big announcement! This project's going down, err... up, rather, in just a few days!

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hanasaurusrex

Pow Wow Hawaii 2012 | Part I

I had to sneak in on the all the fun going down during Pow Wow Hawaii this year. Pow Wow Hawaii is a global art event created and lead by Jasper Wong. The website describes Pow Wow as, "... a gathering of contemporary artists that engages with the broader community in the process and creation of art." This year they had over 50 artists, mostly with graffiti/street art backgrounds, from around the world come and do they're amazing mural magic all over the Kakaako district here in Honolulu. I thought it was fantastic... you can see for yourself.

I created several yarn bombs, this one was made up of about 60+ granny squares all sewn together to cover the city "bike" lock in front of Fresh Cafe and Loft in Space. 60 granny squares may not seem like a lot, but factor in that I made them—and my other yarn bombs—all in less than a week, and I'd say that I must have been working some magic of my own!

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hanasaurusrex