“I don’t just call myself a yarn bomber, I call myself a Vancouver yarn bomber,” says Deirdre Pinnock.
We are sitting in a café on Main Street in Vancouver’s Mount Pleasant neighbourhood. The street outside has been dug up to make way for the city’s newest underground train; down the block, local restaurants and mom and pop shops are slowly being replaced by chain restaurants and supermarkets. This is Deirdre’s neighbourhood. She’s seen the street, and her city, go through many changes over the past few decades.
“Yarn bombing shows my pride for my neighbourhoods…here, up Kingsway, over to Renfrew. I do it for the love of my city and to give back to my community.” A prolific yarn bomber, Deirdre uses her creativity to express how she feels about her city and its citizens through crochet.
All photos courtesy of Deirdre Pinnock unless otherwise specified.
