The video is great! I love watching everything come together.

You want crocheters to be known as vandals? What a waste of yarn not to mention that the pics I've seen of "yarn bombing" are horribly tacky! Not good publicity for crocheting in my opinion!

How many trees and bushes will be damaged by the tangles of yarn...how many birds will be caught  in the tangles and die???

There are much better places to use our talents as crocheters, much better causes to crochet for.

This is the problem: It's ugly.

The same crap happened in CRAFT magazine, where crocheters were supposed to be grateful that an "artist" appropriated the chunky, dull yarn and huge stitches in an "Ironic" celebration of amateur-crafted items, as a mockery of Chanel and other fashion houses' designs.

As a reality check, ask yourself this question: Would an artist using knitting as the craft of choice be allowed to get away with the lack of competence, shown in those stitches? Would they be proud of the DIY-ugliness, or would they attempt to match their friends' standards of quality? They use crochet because it's expected to be ugly and cover up lumps of things without the precision a similar design in knitting would require -- and there's always the mention of Grandma and her ding-dang tissue box cozies.

When unskilled amateurs, from these hip artists to the nameless prisoner who designed Martha's release poncho, represent our craft, then disrespect for skill and taste we try to cultivate, is what we get. And what Char55 said: I'd much rather my work be used for beings who need it, than for inanimate objects that don't and public workers who have to clean up after me.  All in all, it's bad for the hook.

@cdthomas Almost all yarn bombing that I've seen in person and in the press is knit, not crochet (click through the links in the NYTimes article ...).  The one woman that primarily crochets is an artist whose work seems to be mostly displayed in galleries and showings (with occasional public installations that seem to be for publicity purposes).

Then I'm sorry for broadcasting my aspersions -- it's just that out here (CO), the yarn bombing's mostly crochet.

I got plucked that during our combination crafts/fashion show fair last week (which made my hackles rise, with all the sizeist shade being thrown), the only representation of crochet was with the local yarn bombing group, holding a crafts table for kids to crochet and glue bits together.

That meant weaving and knitting and other crafts were represented by pieces worthy of admiration and sales, while crochet was fit for the youngins to mess with. I would have surely thought that the craftswomen I saw present quality crocheted work at last year's event would return this year, but they didn't. Maybe I should have a tougher skin,  but the societal deprecation of crochet in comparison is nearly automatic, thus my reflexive response. Once I saw that typically color-garish pink/purple bull, I saw red....

Never heard of this til now. Went online and looked at several sites that described and photographed yarn graffiti, and I agree- it is pretty tacky stuff.

There are cold children, wounded warriors, and most recently, a heck of a lot of people in Joplin who have just lost home and hearth. A lot of reasons to crochet....something...anything....to let them know someone is thinking of them and wishing them strength and healing.

Yes you shared a good thing here with us.

My last brief post seems to have struck a chord, and though I'm inclined to avoid discussions involving