Yarnstorming for Pride

Rebel Yarns was at it again.

The group of guerilla knitters stormed Memorial Park's amphitheater late in June to affix rainbow colored yarn concoctions to trees, poles, ropes — anything that would stand still long enough to get festooned.

South Orange knitter Sue Rexford, aka "Wooly Momma," called it "Yarnstorming with Pride for all our friends" — the colorful creations went up and stayed up for the first-ever , a day that was blessed with fine weather and the good news of .

The isn't the first time Rexford and friends have wrapped their knitted art around the towns.

(the night before Halloween, 'natch), Rebel Yarns — Rexford's posse of knitters, crocheters and other fiber artists — took their colorful threads to the streets for their first night of what they then called "yarnbombing," or "mischief knitting." At the time Rexford described yarnbombing is a sort of fiber graffiti, where the artists leave their mark in wool or cotton and hope that it doesn't get taken down before others get to see it.

Rebel Yarns affixed their Halloween creations in the cover of darkness, but Rexford was proud to be out in the sunshine wrapping the threads at Memorial Park in June. 

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