In February, Lisa had an idea to
do something that she’d wanted to
do for a few years – yarn bomb the
caravan! Yarn bombing is considered a
type of removable graffiti intended to
personalize and add warmth to otherwise
cold and sterile places and objects. The
start of the yarn bombing movement has
been attributed to a Houston woman
called Magda Sayeg who covered the
door handles of her boutique with handknitted
covers back in 2005 although
there have been other forms of yarn art
displayed prior to this. Thanks to the
internet, the idea was soon embraced
by graffiti knitting and crochet groups
around the world and the movement has
seen projects transforming all manner
of inanimate objects into cozy pieces of
art by covering them with crocheted and
knitted shapes. Having seen some photos
of other yarn bombed caravans on the
internet, Lisa thought a yarn bombed
Sunliner would look awesome.
“I asked my sister to put out a call to
the Facebook crochet group she was in,
for people to send in crochet squares, and
send they did! We had a huge response,
all up I think five hundred plus from
all over the land, including some from
Indonesia! In May, the process of joining
them together began. It was a huge task,
laying out the squares into blocks the
size of the different sections of the van,
and with my sister’s help, joining them all
together”, says Lisa.
Meanwhile Louis was given the task
of going over the caravan to make sure
that everything was functioning and legal
for registration.
Once the pieces were all sewn
together into sections came the
challenging part of figuring out how to
make them all fit on to the van.
“Louis brainstormed how to make
outer frames for the side windows to
attach the crochet to, and I figured out a
I asked my sister to put out a call to the Facebook crochet group
she was in, for people to send in crochet squares, and send they did!
Lisa and her Egg
22 | vintagecaravanmagazine