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Thursday, July 30, 2009

Art Saves: Kiba Rika

Today's Art Saves creation and guest blog comes from my creative and crafty friend Kimberly Hirsh, aka Kiba Rika:


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Here's a picture of a hat I crocheted. I wanted to take a moment to encourage people to participate in fiber art. It saves in many ways:

- It makes a statement in the form of guerilla yarn art
http://crochetme.com/blog/spied-guerrilla-yarn-art-nyc

- It makes people feel better when they're sick
http://www.headhuggers.org/

- It makes people aware of their consumption habits
http://www.counterfeitcrochet.org/

- It makes people think about the amazing environment in which we live
http://www.theiff.org/reef/index.html

I think The Plain Janes would be on board, especially with the guerilla yarn art.

Check out your local craft store or do a search online for "crochet" or "knitting" to learn one of these excellent arts!

- Kimberly Hirsh

6 comments:

Little Willow said...

I definitely think the Janes would dig this. Thank you, Kiba, for sharing your craft AND these excellent links!

Lorie Ann Grover said...

So very cool! Thanks for all the links as well. :~)

Melissa Walker said...

I love guerilla yarn art! Awesome.

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