Yarn Bombers

Rogue knitters cover up the ugly.

by Barbara Annis

posted 8/7/2010

"Cherry Luvbomb" and "Buy Art" are Ann Arbor graffiti artists with a twist. These two "traditionally sized" women (to borrow a term from mystery writer Alexander McCall Smith) are neither particularly young nor fleet of foot. Yet in July, they and their needle-wielding posse stealthily "yarn bombed" a fence on Washtenaw Avenue and several trees and poles near

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