I have several reasons for yarnbombing...and in no particular order they are:
1. I enjoy creating a piece of fibre art as part of my therapy to cope with chronic illness and being housebound much of the time.
2. It provides an outlet for my creativity and need to make things. I have always created and been a maker.
3. It allows me to add colour, whimsy and a touch of the personal/homemade to city streets, helping me claim back my surroundings from the impersonal, rigid conformity of city infrastructure.
4. Each yarnbomb is a gift to my community or to people I may never meet. It is a way to thank and support the community/people.
5. It is my method of spreading kindness and happiness. It is the way I have chosen to try to make the world a better place, by supporting and encouraging the idea of "paying forward" or giving freely something which I hope makes others smile.
6. It supports my need to advocate or raise awareness for causes I feel passionately about without being overtly or aggressively pushing a message.
7. Yarnbombing gives me scope to invite collaboration locally and internationally and build friendships and peer support. The personal element of connecting with others is highly satisfying.
8. Finishing a piece and installing it gives me joy: a deep, personal happiness and satisfaction that I have shared my creativity freely and given back to the world.
And lastly, because it is fun.
Jane
Aka Queen Babs, yarnbomber
1. I enjoy creating a piece of fibre art as part of my therapy to cope with chronic illness and being housebound much of the time.
2. It provides an outlet for my creativity and need to make things. I have always created and been a maker.
3. It allows me to add colour, whimsy and a touch of the personal/homemade to city streets, helping me claim back my surroundings from the impersonal, rigid conformity of city infrastructure.
4. Each yarnbomb is a gift to my community or to people I may never meet. It is a way to thank and support the community/people.
5. It is my method of spreading kindness and happiness. It is the way I have chosen to try to make the world a better place, by supporting and encouraging the idea of "paying forward" or giving freely something which I hope makes others smile.
6. It supports my need to advocate or raise awareness for causes I feel passionately about without being overtly or aggressively pushing a message.
7. Yarnbombing gives me scope to invite collaboration locally and internationally and build friendships and peer support. The personal element of connecting with others is highly satisfying.
8. Finishing a piece and installing it gives me joy: a deep, personal happiness and satisfaction that I have shared my creativity freely and given back to the world.
And lastly, because it is fun.
Jane
Aka Queen Babs, yarnbomber