If you're a bird, I'm a bird

According to Wikipedia "Yarn bombing  is a type of  graffiti  or  street art  that employs colorful displays of  knitted  or  crocheted  yarn or fiber rather than paint or chalk. While other forms of graffiti may be  expressive ,  decorative ,  territorial ,  socio-political commentary ,  advertising  or  vandalism , yarn bombing was initially almost exclusively about reclaiming and personalizing sterile or cold public places. " I have a part-time job of placing exchange students with host families. It is not always easy finding families to open their homes. If they are a interested, there is something else holding them back, like moving or their husband or the size of their house or the schools. Life happens. I love when I find families that jump right in and we finish u p the process in a couple days and before I know it, they are selecting their student! One day I came up with an outside-the-box ide...

"I like making a piece of string into something I can wear." ~Author Unknown "The only place where housework comes before knitting is in the dictionary." "Stitch your stress away." ~Author Unknown "All my scattering moments are taken up with my needle." ~Ellen Birdseye Wheaton, 1851 "Properly practiced, knitting soothes the troubled spirit, and it doesn't hurt the untroubled spirit, either." ~Elizabeth Zimmerman "If I stitch fast enough, does it count as aerobic exercise?" ~Author Unknown "For people allergic to wool, one's heart can only bleed." ~Elizabeth Zimmerman "Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting." ~Ellen Glasgow "Everybody tells me that they would love to knit, but they don't have time. I look at people's lives and I can see opportunity and time for knitting all over the place. The time spent riding the bus each day? That's a pair of...