Covent Garden in the tourist-clogged heart of the city. The Yarn Corps has been eyeing this cobbled canvas for a while now, and Worldwide Knit in Public Day practically screamed for a bit of subversive stitching where the city could see it. After all if you’re going to thrust the woolly face of the knit into the public eye you may as well do it where as many people as possible can wonder at it.
Four members of the Yarn Corps converged in the corner of one of London’s oldest market squares, where Roman knitters once stitched their stolas and togaed stallholders touted their wares, and brought the yarnstorm to a humble wooden barrier as the tourists flowed by.
Cobbles and a cosy crime
London barely batted an eyelash as the whirlwind of wool flew around the barrier, sprouting yarn-scented blooms as it went.
Bloomin' knitting
We also had the pleasure of having this historic step in the direction of yarnstorming first the city, then the world, recorded by the lovely folks from BBC News.
A happy handstitched barrier beamed in the late afternoon sunshine of a slightly confused and bemused Covent Garden. The Yarn Corps snuck away from the scene of the cosy crime and disappeared to stitch in the shadows once more.
Halt! Yarn crossing
You've been yarnstormed
The campaign to knit the city has well and truly begun.
4 Comments
June 24, 2009 at 9:15 pm
Fucking legendary! My ladies did me proud!
June 24, 2009 at 9:18 pm
Ah the sweary pride of the Purple Purler.
June 28, 2009 at 4:09 pm
brilliant! knit long and prosper!
June 29, 2009 at 9:20 am
[...] and then knitting 4 scarves in a row, there are some more advanced knitters who do things such as knit storming or knit bombing. It is akin to grafitti, which has snuck up on the art world and innocent commuters [...]