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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.

WWKIP 2013 - June 8 in Honolulu

TheFUZZ will be observing World Wide Knit in Public Day (WWKIP) 2013 at Spalding House, repurposing parts of the Fibonacci striped tree sweater to decorate the new family room. If you'd like to help out, we're looking for people to seam pieces together (we'll provide tapestry needles and yarn). If you'd like to hang out, please bring a knit or crochet project to work on! Sunblock, insect repellent, sunglasses, and brimmed hats are recommended. There's a water fountain available, and the cafe sells drinks and food. Kids are welcome!

When: Saturday, June 8, 2013, from 12 noon - 4 pm
Where: Honolulu Museum of Art Spalding House (2411 Makiki Heights Drive, Honolulu)
Link to the museum calendar: International Yarnbombing Day

Parking is free, but the lot is small. TheBus route 15 (Pacific Heights/Papakolea) stops in front of the museum; please check route information on TheBus.org or 848-5555.

Entrance to the Spalding House Cafe is free to the public during open hours (please note that the cafe will only be open until 2 pm). If you would like to explore the grounds (where we'll be working) and the exhibits, please pay the admission fee at the front desk. The Honolulu Museum of Art is participating in Blue Star Museums: from May 28 - Sept 1, the museum is free to active military personnel and their families with valid ID. Please check with the museum or Blue Star Museums for a list of acceptable IDs.

After the Yarnstorm

Photo credit: MK Carroll

The Honolulu Museum of Art Spalding House yarnbombing has been successfully defused. Special thanks to lilikoiknits to helping out with figuring out which strands of yarn to cut!

Sunset

Installation of TheFuzz yarnbombing at Spalding House

The yarnbombing installation at Honolulu Museum of Art Spalding House is coming to a close. August 26, 2012, will be your last chance to view the yarnbombing on the grounds (although the monkeypod branch sleeve will remain up for a little while longer, until arrangements can be made to remove it safely).

The Honolulu Museum of Art Spalding House is currently open Tuesday - Saturday from 10 am - 4 pm and Sunday 12 pm - 4 pm, with a Garden Gallery tour, led by a docent, at 1:30 pm Tuesday - Sunday.

55' of Mathematical Awesomeness!

We're just warning you now... wonder and amazement may be two emotional responses evoked when you happen upon ArchiPURLago's Monkeypod tree sweater. It's 55' of mathematical awesomeness! Yes, you read that correctly, fifty-five feet!

The Fibonacci sequenced stripes, in bold sunny colors, span the entire length of one of the tree's longest branches, practically reaching out to touch you or touch your heart is more like it. And the installation had one of the volunteers, Rita Scott, an experienced climber, actually tying off and climbing up into the canopy to seam the final piece together!

See the finished piece and the all TheFuzz yarnbombs at the Honolulu Museum of Art's Spalding House until Art Spree, July 14th. The details, you'll find them here.

A Knitted QR Code?! Now that's High Tech.

Did you get a chance to check out the Tattoo Honolulu Exhibition at the Honolulu Academy of Art yet? If you did then you may have noticed one—soon to be two—of the Chinese horse statues greeting visitors is wearing a beautiful lei and a knitted saddle in honor of the horses that carry the Hawaiian pā`ū riders. But instead of carrying a lady, this horse is carrying information—and some high tech info at that!

It's a knitted QR code! Scan the code with your smart phone and it will send you here, to TheFuzz blog, where you'll find info for TheFuzz's Yarn Bombing Exhibition at the Honolulu Museum of Art's Spalding House. Pretty awesome yeah?! We thought so too.

The lei, saddle and letters were knit by our very own AchiPURLago and Aloha Knitter, Megan (Lilikoiknits on Ravelry), knit the QR code for us. They both did an amazing job!

You can find all the info about TheFuzz Exhibition in our Big Announcement post here. As well as on the Museum's Exhibitions page here.

We invite you to visit Spalding House, our work will be up through July 14th. You can come hang out with us this weekend too. Saturday, June 16th, from 12pm–4pm. We will be offering a yarn bombing workshop! And Sunday, June 17th, from 2pm–4pm. We will be hosting a lecture on yarn bombing and our work. We hope you can join us!

Photo credit: ArchiPURLago

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