How I Spent Yarn Bombing Day

Yesterday was a rousing success and one heck of a good time.

I had started the day before with a practice run on a Golden Gate Park visitor map. By the next day my piece was amazingly still there, but looking a little down in the dumps from the morning dew and SF fog.

 My first yarn bomb of the day was too good to pass up. A life-size bronze portrait of horticulturalist and former Superintendent of Golden Gate Park (as well as one of its original builders), John McLaren. He loved the park and its plants and trees, but absolutely despised the idea of any statues invading the peaceful landscape.

So of course, they built a giant statue of him — located right across from a giant cemented area where noisy roller skaters dance around to obnoxious disco music.

Went over to the AIDS Memorial Grove area, but it was pretty crowded. We had to surreptitiously wait a little while to photograph this piece up because an older couple stopped to look at it.

 I made sure to hit up the lamp post right outside my living room window…

…so now all I have to do is look right outside and see my handiwork.

There was one more piece featured in the video, but unfortunately we couldn’t snap any pictures of it before Johnny Law rolled up and we hightailed it outta there!

All in all, I’d say it was a mightily triumphant endeavor.

I hope everyone else had a safe and wonderful IYBD!!