"Yarnstorming (also known as yarnbombing): the art of enhancing a public place or object with graffiti knitting"

(Or putting knitting on something unexpected in public and running always giggling wildly)

WHO?

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Operating from a secret underground wool-lined bunker in the heart of the busy metropolis of London, Knit the City’s Yarn Corps spend most of their lives operating under assumed names and living their lives like every day people.

WHAT?

Guerilla knitting or ‘yarnstorming’ is the art of conjuring up a piece of knitting or crochet, taking out out in the world, releasing it into the wild, and running away like a mad thing.

WHY?

Frustrated to see we’re not battling society’s horrors by knitting jumpers for homeless baby penguins with tuberculosis? What’s the point of what we do, dammit?!

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Parliament Square Phone Box Cosy: The Revenge

There is one thing that Knit the City are definite about. It is our golden rule. We will NEVER do another Phone Box Cosy. No. We won't! Nope. You can't make us! Uh uh! NO! NO! NO! Oh go on then...

Yarnstorm the Sixteenth: Stitched Street Art Show

What's a typical graffiti yarnstorming day like for the ladies of the sneaky stitching Knit the City yarn corps? Now there's a question. It involves sneaky stitching and the great outdoors, but without a plan this one was going to be interesting...

Yarnstorm Boot Camp bumped to October

Fancy joining Knit the City at the UK's first ever yarstorming boot camp? Due to trouble involving radioactive sheep and an infestation of yarn zombies, KTC's Yarnstorm Boot Camp has been moved to 19-21 October 2012. Woo hoo!

Learn to yarnstorm at Knit the City’s Yarnstorm Bootcamp

GRAFFITI KNITTING NEEDS YOU! For the first time ever you can join two of Knit the City’s most hardcore handmade heroes, dastardly Deadly Knitshade and fibre-flinging The Fastener for a weekend of woolly mischief on the wonderful Isle of Wight. Quick! There's a limited number of Bootcamp places!

Permission to Yarnstorm: Tate Britain Unexpected Artworks

What happens when one of London’s most famous art museums invites two of...

Berlin: The lonesome tale of the Woolly Currywurst

The last installment of our Berlin Book Launch: So far our book launch had included...

Yarnstorm the Fifteenth: Tree of Tintenfisch

What’s a graffiti knitting book launch celebration without a swarm of skybound squid (or Tintenfisch as squid are called in Germany)?

Yarnstorm the Fourteenth: Bobbing Bear-lin Luftballons

Once upon a time there were four sneaky stitchers who lived in a secret wool-lined Bunker in the heart of the ancient city of London. There they knit and crocheted and made magic with their needles which they sent out into the world to seek its fortune.

Permission to yarnstorm: Kirby’s Epic Yarnstorm

When the world's most famous computer game company loses one of their best-loved characters in a giant magic sock there are very few people who they can call for help. We were armed to the teeth with sharpened needles and were on our way...

Yarnstorm on Screen: Handmade Herd

The Handmade Herd has wended its way across London Bridge and disappeared into the labyrinth of London. Still here? Want more? A last encore? Well, button those lips and slip behind this curtain. Let the Magic Lantern of the sorceresses of Alt Artist show you the wonders of the Handmade Herd with Moving Pictures.

Yarnstorm the Twelfth: Handmade Herd

Ladies and Gentlemen! Ewes and Rams! Roll up! Roll up! Today, for one day only, those wool slinging wonders of the Knit the City Yarn Corps will be driving a Handmade Herd across London Bridge before your very eyes!

Yarnstorm the Thirteenth: Hubbub of Hearts

Love. It's squishy. It's smooshy. It's warm and cuddly. And today it's made from wool. In honour of the day of mushy love that is Valentine's Day the Knit the City Yarn Corps brought a world of woolly yarnstorming love to the people of Piccadilly Circus.

Permission to yarnstorm: Knit the City knit John Smedley

It was an unlikely match: one of Britain's oldest knitwear designers (they've been making trendy knits for over 200 years) and one of London's sneakiest stitching crews. But when John Smedley invited the Knit the City Yarn Corps to show a little of their history in graffiti knitted form we were wooed by just how much history they had.

Yarnstorm the Eleventh: Stitched Sealife Escapees

We interrupt this programme to bring you breaking news from London’s Natural History Museum. Reports are flooding in that four of the Museum’s inmates have broken out of their jars and are causing havoc throughout the building.

Yarnstorm the Tenth: Plunder of Pirates

Shiver me stitched timbers! Knit the City be findin’ themselves marooned at...

Yarnstorm on Screen: Nutcracker Knitmare Before Christmas

Bringing you a bit of festive fibre on film our Fairy Godmothers of Documentrydom, the Alt Artist girls, have put together a little movie of our Knitmare Before Christmas.

Yarnstorm the Eighth: Nutcracker Knitmare before Christmas

Twas the Knit before Christmas in cold London Town, Where a lone ballerina was cast with...

Yarnstorm the Seventh: Gate of Ghouls

Come closer, mortals, we wish to tell you a tale of tube-flavoured terror… Knit the...

Yarnstorm on Screen: Oranges and Lemons Odyssey – the movie

Once in a lifetime a film comes along that will touch your heart, make you laugh till tea comes out of your nose, make you cry till you get a dehydration headache, and make you wish that you could live you life again and do it alllllll so differently that world peace ensued and all famine was wiped out. This is not that film. But it is pretty freaking cool.

Yarnstorm the Sixth: Oranges and Lemons Odyssey

Knit the City's six-hour yarnstorm to the tune of one of London's oldest nursery rhymes. Grab your citrus fruit and join us!