International Yarn Bombing Day

This month we celebrated Youth Day here is South Africa (16 June), a very important day in our history. A day the youth took to the streets and publicly voiced their frustrations. This month also saw another day of celebration – International Yarn Bombing Day (11 June).

Yarn what? You may ask.

Yarn bombing, yarnbombing, yarnstorming, guerrilla knitting, or graffiti knitting is a type of graffiti or street art that employs colorful displays of knitted or crocheted cloth rather than paint or chalk. Wikipedia.

While I was pondering these two commemorative days it occurred to me that a merge of causes would be brilliant. Yarnbombing Youth! Now that would be something… it will give our rebels a cause again.

I would love to live in a yarn-carrying society rather than a gun carrying society. A place where destruction is replaced with construction, a place where we feel safe and warm, a place that feels like home.
I think that if more kids took to yarn this generation will be the bomb!

So let's join the handmade revolution and shout this mantra with me...