The crocheter, also a writer and actress, has achieved fame over the past few months dressing the Berlin Bear, an ursine statue in Los Angeles' Griffith Park.
Captain Hook, left, attends a yarn bombing mission in Los Angeles' Griffith Park in March.
"What I'm going for is ridiculous," Hook told NPR, whose reporter she allowed to accompany her on a bear-dressing mission. "I want it to look like this bear has a grandma that just won't stop making it ridiculous clothes that it has to wear."
The Los Angeles public has embraced the bear, as has Marshal Barrena, Griffith Park's senior gardener and the bear's overseer.
"It puts a little spring in your step, seeing something like that in the morning," Barrena told NPR.
Hook, who grew up on a commune in the 1970s, is part of a worldwide movement of yard bombers. The industrious, anonymous stitchers include the Calgary Art Bomber and the Happy Hookers, who recently covered a row of traffic barriers with warm caps, and a group of German guerrilla knitters who covered the cold metal bars of a Berlin subway train with comfy cozies in January.
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Hook admitted that her hobby has raised questions among her friends, but points out that yarn crocheting is more productive than channel surfing."When people sort of look at me like, 'Where do you find the time to do these kinds of things, don't you have a job and don't you have friends?,' I think to myself, Where do people find the time to spend hours on Facebook or Twitter or watch their favorite TV shows?" she said.
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