Knit the City’s Yarn Corps weren’t always of tight-knit band of guerrilla knitters. They were lone woolly wolves, going about their yarnstorms in their own style and stitches. Some of them didn’t even know they had it in them to take their knits to the streets.
It would take a twist in the thread of fate to bring them and their knits together. It may never have taken place, but the thread of fate had other ideas…
A master appeared on the yarn-wrapped horizon. A wandering sensei of the stitch arrived from a far off land. London’s first guerrilla knitting event cast on its first tentative stitches, the South Bank of London was littered with the sneaky knits of a hard day’s yarnstorming.
South Bank Skate Park: graffiti on graffiti action
Tate Modern: load of woolly bollards
South Bank Skate Park: safe and snug
Knightrider Street: a tribute to the Hoff
St Paul's Cathedral: cosy-necked traffic beacon
On that day the first stitches of the woolly warrior band that would become Knit the City were cast on. The lone wolves of the wool had found their pack, and London had found its Yarn Corps…
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