Maybe the long winters that drive me indoors also drive me toward quirky creative projects. But that wouldn't explain the thousands of knitters who produce exuberant, extensive and extravagantly colored yarn bombs in perfect paradises. For me, yarnbombing parking meters outside of our own Kitchen Theatre Company a few years ago was great fun. It's a joy thing. Because it's fun to surprise people by contrasting morose hardscapes with cheerful hues in soft fibers outdoors where they "don't belong." To express happiness. Show delight. Or challenge the status quo. I wanted to capture the idea that we couldn't wait what the Kitchen would serve up next. With two parking meters right outside the front doors, it was an ideal set-up. So diving into my scrap yarn, scrounging for graph paper, and adopting some Fair Isle patterns were all I needed. After that it developed into a backstage mystery. This installation lasted more than a yea...