Crochet Graffiti

Flower Power Continues ♥

Johanna donated some spare bits of crochet and Nancy and I decided to incorporate these beautiful crochet medallions into a craft/yarnboming piece on the corner of Datyon and Walnut in Yellow Springs, Ohio.  The top portion has the crochet and the black band has flowers by the flower power gang.

 Johanna

Flower Power in Yellow Springs, Ohio

and boy did we have it Friday morning at Brother Bears.

Pierre Nagely aka Jafalad, Karen Russell aka Jafalass, Nancy Mellon, Corrine aka Jafabrit, Talitha Greene, Susan Gartner, Karyn Dietrick, Stacey Kesling, Sarah Strong, Beth Holyoke and Chelle Palassis all worked on this beautiful pile of flowers for the Textile Graffiti coming up on Dayton/Corry Street, SOON!

Next Flower Power Get Together is same place March 26th around 9am, please join us and  bring spare felt, needle, thread, scissors and any spare buttons.

 

 

Updates

Winter has slowed us down a bit but we plot, in between Nancy’s business Getaways for Women, and my current obsession with Contemporary Embroidery Art we have started working on our pieces for textile graffiti, a new image for the art box, and been dragging poor mr.plato around.

 Mr.Plato  &  Felt Flowers for the Textile Graffiti Project

Flower Power

 Karen aka Jafalass is helping Nancy and I  make flowers for our textile graffiti project

Mr.Plato is hanging out at the Bryan Center for Women’s Voices Out Loud Exhibit  (he LOVES women)

Corrine is exhibiting three pieces at Mount Ida College Gallery, Newton MA

Drawing In Thread :  Contemporary Embroidery
3.30 – 5.2.2010
Reception Thursday, 4/8/10 from 5:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
with Gallery talk on 4/8/10 at 6:30 p.m.

If you are in Yellow Springs you can see Nancy’s work at the village Artistans Gallery, Corrine’s aka Jafabrit’s at IN A FRAME on corry street (just ask to see my work), or at Jafabrit’s Art ,and of course we have knit/textile graffiti in various places around town.

Need a place to stay check out  Stay In Yellow Springs website

For a list of events around town   YS Arts…..Chamber of Commerce

Need a weekend trip with workshops and everything planned for you, then check out Getaways for Women

 

Yarnbombing Cartoon

Jafa Street Hotties LOL! Virgil Hervey posted this funny cartoon on his Yellow Springs Blog, which had me in stitches. If you want to keep up with local news, gossip and opinion then Virgils blog is the place to go. For local news check out Yellow Springs News and for arts and culture the YSarts Blog.

Recent Publicity

“Local artists Corrine Bayraktaroglu and Nancy Mellon, aka the JafaGirls, stand behind a pole they have tagged with knit graffiti on Dayton Street. Their Yellow Springs public fiber art is featured in the new book, ‘Yarn Bombing,’ from Arsenal Pulp Press.“

Yellow Springs News

Skeins away! Yarn-bombers strike

Yarn Bombing Book

Nancy and Corrine are proud to be included in the new yarn bombing book and amongst so many experienced knitters/crocheters. If you get a chance to check the book out you will find it visually beautiful with great ideas, patterns, interviews,  and some amazing work.

The giant pink bunny on the Italian hillside has to be my FAVE.

The Art of Crochet and Knit Graffiti
by Mandy Moore and Leanne Prain
Arsenal Pulp Press

Knit Graffiti by the Jafagirls
Nancy Mellon and Corrine Bayraktaroglu

correction on page 43: Yellow Springs Ohio (not Colorado)