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From YouTube: NewsMakers: Yarn Bombing the Chair's Chair

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In a unique public art project initiated and funded by the Rosslyn BID, the Guerrilla Stitch Brigade yarn bombed County Board Chair Mary Hynes' chair last month, to draw attention to the project. The BID has asked the group to create an artistic way-finding system to enable visitors to more easily find Artisphere from the Rosslyn Metro Station. Partners include Artisphere, Arlington Public Art and the Arlington Public Library. Contact Jennifer Lindsay, Project Manager at artisphereknitting@gmail.com

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Welcome to newsmakers last week we caught the gorilla stitch brigade preparing to yarn bomb the county board chairs chair. Here's what happened.

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Well, I'm here with a group of people from the artist for yarn bomb project and we are yarn bombing Mary, Hines chair, oh.

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That is so cool.

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I'm, the organiser, the organiser, oh.

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Yarn bombing, is it really a new form of street art, that's sweeping the country in the world and it's a way for people to go out and do something harmless and fun, and beautiful and creative. It's just.

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A form of expression in yard, using knitting or crochet or other fiber techniques.

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Usually it's done in the middle of the night and the next morning you wake up and something in your your common commute or where you walk around, looks completely different, but they even did my gavel.

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I'm Jennifer Lindsay, the leader of the artists, fury yarn bombs, gorilla stitch brigade and miss Hines. Your chair has just been yarn bomb I want to thank the staff who helped us infiltrate the offices of the Arlington County for this artistic cause. This yarn bomb would not be possible without miss Hines support and commitment to public art and public engagement, but yarn bombing. The chairs chair is just a teaser, because the artists fear yarn bomb is a family friendly outdoor community fiber art project, I'm.

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Coordinating for artists, fear the Rosalind Business Improvement, District, Arlington, public art and Arlington public library that is open to everyone and.

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This project has grown from just yarn bombing the trees way too artisphere to a whole other secret gorilla, yarn-bombing, that's going to take place in the spring that we can't tell you about, but this is just an indication of this.

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This is a taste, yes, don't have to know how to knit or crochet so beginners are welcome and their pieces will be used in every bit as important as the the pieces that more advanced people create.

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We have a number of places where people are meeting all throughout the community, but the main place that we're meeting is at artisphere on wednesday evenings from now through the end of februari and we're meeting from six to nine p.m. in the Upper Town Hall, which is a really extraordinary and beautiful space, with lots of comfortable types of seating tables and chairs and sofas and couches. Happy.

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Doesn't go up there, though this is in my office.

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Knitting alone is really fun, but knitting in a big group of people is about the most fun thing. I can imagine. Do.

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