What a day it was! It took Danny and I several hours to get this loom built but we did it, and with only one trip to the hardware store for a couple of nuts and some doweling. I am as giddy as a little girl on Christmas morning....can't wait to warp up this weekend!

The pictures above progress from a pile of wood on the floor to a built loom and a happy Janna! 

My friend Corrie made a suprise visit from Montreal this week so we spent the morning eating delicious blueberry pancakes and Indigo dying fabric and yarn. It was such a treat to spend time with her in this way and on such a gorgeous sunny day.

My indigo vat in the laundry room..

Oh the wonders of indigo!

I knit this little shrug for Noa, the little girl I used to Nanny.  She said really likes it, and then asked for it in pink.  Of course I'm making her one.

I made a cozy for a parking meter at Main & Hastings this morning (you can see Carnegie Hall in the background of the first photo). As I sewed it a city truck parked beside me. I was a little nervous at first and then surprised when the city worker just got out, swept around me and proceeded to explain that he often gets asked what the strangest thing he's ever seen on the job is. Apparently this is it.

I checked on it a couple of hours later and it was still there, but with some additional contents compliments of the crow on the telephone wire. This is one blessed parking meter, it is all cozied up in hand-spun, hand-dyed, luck struck merino wool!

I have a feeling this will not be the last of yarn bombing for me....stay tuned

Janna

Also see Yarn Bombing blog post about this bomb.... http://yarnbombing.com/hurray-for-wooly-parking-meters
Photos by Craig Sinclair