It was after watching the Asheville Holiday Parade last month that we decided to walk around downtown Asheville and look for the yarn covered flat iron that we saw on the news. It was chilly that day, but I am more than willing to brace the chill just to see the fun art in downtown.
Yarn bombing is considered a street art and it was the third year that they’ve done it in the city, but it was our first time to see it. And that’s because that was the first time that I’d seen it on the news. I wonder how come I missed the previous ones? 🙂
So fun and so cool! This giant flat iron is located on Wall Street that runs beside the flat iron building. I think it would have been great to see them actually putting the yarn on.
The hubs wrote about the flat iron building before in his post, ‘The Great Art Deco Architecture of Asheville‘. And where the arrow is pointing is where the yarn bombed flat iron sits. Honestly, we’ve walked on this street before going up hill, but I certainly didn’t see the flat iron. I didn’t even know there was a flat iron there until I saw it on the news. My eyes were so focused on where we were going. We are supposed to watch where we’re going, right? 😉
They also yarn bomb the car meters on Wall Street.
That’s my son right there walking with us and checking Wall Street that is also full of different shops.
We really enjoyed looking at the artistic and creative yarn bombed flat iron and meters. I do wonder if they still have it now though. We’ve not been to that part of downtown again after that day. Going to take a look soon!
Have you seen something like this before?
That is really neat, but what happens when it rains? My sister is an “artist”, so I am sure she would appreciate this out of the box art.
That looks kind of fun. I have asked the same question as the other person what happens when it rains? People are so creative I wish I could be that creative myself.
Interesting. How is Asheville taking to it? It isn’t quite my cup of tea, but beauty is always in the eye of the beholder. 🙂
That’s awesome! I wonder how many days did it take for them to have that flat iron crochet bombing? That would be been a lot of work! anyway, it turned out great!
Wow..I have never seen those before. Super interesting.
That is so cool. I would love to see that in person myself. I wonder how long it took for them to do that and to make it to exact fit too. WOW!
These are some fancy yarn bombs. If left to me, I would have just wrapped the yarn around the objects.
Whoa, they actually do that?! I love it! What a creative way to brighten the sites that people see day after day! I think I need to start some Yarn Bombing in my town!
Oh how awesome. It would be fun to walk around and photographing everything. There is nothing fun to see around here except farming and amish country.
Oh wow, this is the first time I’m hearing about yarn bombing. Those artists are very impressive. I can’t believe they did the whole iron!
I keep hearing about yarn bombing but I have yet to seen it in person. I am an art lover and can appreciate it in all forms. I would love to see a yarn bomb in my neighborhood. So beautiful.
This is so cool! I would love to see this in person. It looks like it took a lot of time.
I love unique street art like this. Asheville sounds like such a nice place to visit.
This is a creative way to decorate the streets. I just hope to be as creative as these people are.
I have never heard of yarn bombing but this is so cool!! What a fun project!!
That’s so attractive! I have never seen anything like it. I guess people in our provinces here in the Philippines who are expert in making handcrafts such as yarns should make similar ones for the street posts as well to boost tourism.
Beautiful yarns.. My husband would love to visit this place, he loves art!
Such a creative ideas and it looks fun. I wish we had here in our city. i really admire that idea
How cool! I would also love to see those what they call yarn bombing. That is such a fun and artistic idea.
Those yar display are so cool!I really love your place sis, lots of things to do and see.
All these are beautiful. I can imagine the time they spent making them.
This is so much fun! I have never heard of yarn bombing, but if you are going to bomb something yarn seems a lovely choice.
This is so cool. It is a great way to add color to the streets. The big flat iron would have been hard to do.
That is so interesting!! It really makes for a beautiful city!
I’ve never heard of anything like this before but it’s super cool! I love the creative, artistic things like this.
That is really neat! I would love to see something like this around town. They’re so fun and creative.
I have never heard of yarn bombing but this is truly amazing. This would indeed be something to see some day. I can’t believe all the work that was put into this art or I actually can because I love to knit. Thanks so much for sharing this amazing beautiful art.
Wow, that is kind of cool. I have never seen or heard anything like this before. So cool.
Omg how neat!!!! This is a first for me seeing such a thing! So cool 🙂
I have never heard of yarn bombing before, but that seems to be pretty neat. Asheville seems so interesting. I’d love to visit there someday!
This is great! Love the colors and the great idea! It always puts a smile on my face when I see beauty and color on the streets!
We see this sometimes around New Bern and Swansboro and I always think it’s unique and fun. I wonder how they get them installed unseen though!
(P.S. Your url says yanr instead of yarn)
I saw something similar, but not as elaborate. It only took place in a park downtown, and people had created all sorts of sewn and crocheted shapes and artworks to hang on, around and in the trees and fencing.
OMG how awesome is that! That is so cute, I would have love to go see that! ♥
Wow! that giant iron is so cool!