A month ago: the Yarn Corps are idly practising speedy stitching, learning the arts of covert crochet and sipping pear cider in their top secret bunker at Yarnstorm HQ. There is a frantic flapping at the window.
Opening the window admits one of Knit the City’s secret spy pigeons, very out of breath, who coos the news from the London streets.
An event is taking place in the Leake Street tunnel under Waterloo, where graffiti is free to roam without fear of the law. They’re calling it ‘gritting’.
After a brief moment of confusion, where several members of the Yarn Corps wonder why on earth people would gather to put salt on roads during icy weather and call it art, it comes to light it’s graffiti + knitting. Hmm…
The Yarn Corps, ever paranoid and still on the run after the Phonebox Cosy, suspect a trap. It’s the trap that gives them a yarnstorming idea…
The Knit the City Web of Woe is born.
WARNING: Some of the scenes from this yarnstorm may cause distress. Pregnant women and those with heart conditions should consult a doctor before viewing. Proceed with caution.
Our Web of Woe
Our hungry stitched spider
A button-eyed and very dead ant
A sweary butterfly
The tragic Lord and Lady Lovebug
A silent ladybird
Dead bugs
Mothra entwined
Croaked and crocheted
Flightless butterfly
Angel
Devil
Agggggh!
Erk!
Tiny tribute to Totoro
Escaping snail one
Escaping snail two
Wrapped rodent
Frightened fairy
Those butterflies really were sweary
Having yarnstormed themselves a scene of horror, the Yarn Corps dissolved into the shadows of a nearby pub. Safe in the knowledge that graffiti knitting has its place alongside graffiti of the more conventional kind.
A graffiti tribute to knitting
Visions of the next yarnstorm are already dancing in their heads…
The mysterous Yarn Corps girls behind the web
For the inside story from other Yarn Corps members see:
Deadly Knitshade’s A mouse’s tale or my part in the Web of Woe
The Purple Purler’s Amigurumi Madness! and A Tale of Tragedy and Woe
33 Comments
August 3, 2009 at 6:37 am
Hee hee hee – love the Web of Woe, so funny. Those knitted bugs would be easy to attach to boring wire fences everywhere and would certainly brighten up a lot of peoples days when they spied ‘em.
August 3, 2009 at 9:43 pm
Thanks!
Go forth and bug stuff!
August 3, 2009 at 10:26 am
That is the most awesome knitted/crocheted project I’ve ever seen!!!
August 3, 2009 at 9:43 pm
Awww shucks. *blushes*
August 3, 2009 at 11:48 am
Wow! I have to stand up and salute this many times over. By far the coolest thing I have ever seen. It’s now mandatory that I find a way to visit, just so I can see the web of woe – and other KTC originals.
August 3, 2009 at 9:44 pm
Yay! Come visit! We’ll save some yarnstorming just for you.
August 3, 2009 at 12:24 pm
Erk.
August 3, 2009 at 9:44 pm
Eek.
August 3, 2009 at 5:03 pm
Comrades! From across The Pond, I salute your efforts!! Knit On!!!
August 3, 2009 at 9:44 pm
We’ll do our damnedest.
August 3, 2009 at 5:29 pm
Those pictures are fantastic, thank you for sharing!
August 4, 2009 at 12:19 am
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August 4, 2009 at 11:48 am
you girls make me screem! you are already mythos. this web of woe will save you an eternal place in the hall of graffiti fame.
August 5, 2009 at 1:05 am
Awwwww shucks. We’ll save you a spot right next to us. We love your work.
August 5, 2009 at 12:48 am
Like all the other fellow commentators, “WOW”. I am in love with the concept of “graffiti knitting”. It is so dangerous and unexpected. You ladies and/or gentleman must continue this crusade and share the photographic evidence that knitting/crochet is cool and will NEVER die! To all you graffiti knitters I raise my glass and say “K1P1 yo and K2tog…”
jennine
August 5, 2009 at 1:05 am
*blushes on behalf of Yarn Corps* Thanks very much. We hope to continue yarnstorming till they lock us up.
August 5, 2009 at 5:08 pm
Fantastic work. Will be posting on the Leake Street web site about it soon!
August 5, 2009 at 6:24 pm
[...] As a “beginning” level knitter, I have to say I was amazed at the sight of completed projects. It’s mesmerizing to see even a scarf that is completed in less than a year. While I hone my skills, I will marvel at Knit the City’s Phonebox Cosy and Web of Woe. [...]
August 10, 2009 at 1:08 am
[...] disparues, notamment les petits animaux/monstres tricotés qui etaient disposées sur une enorme toile d’araignee tricotée . Forcement, ça attire ces petites choses colorees. Alors que j’étais la bas, deux [...]
August 10, 2009 at 5:34 pm
The web looked great. I will be featuring it in my film
. Particularly loved the angel. Jo
August 10, 2009 at 7:31 pm
Thanks ever so much. Glad it got immortalised in your film before it got pinched!
Can’t wait to see the finished movie. Will we all be invited to the première?
August 11, 2009 at 11:34 am
If you’d like to come you’re very welcome. It will be on Sept 11th. Are you guys doing any more yarnstorming before then? It would be good to get you in the film, as opposed to just the web! Didn’t manage to get anything in the tunnel, because you left so soon
August 12, 2009 at 12:45 am
[...] Where? Yarnstorm the Fourth: Web of Woe [...]
August 12, 2009 at 11:55 am
What happens to the cute things? Is someone guarding them or do people steal them?
August 12, 2009 at 1:08 pm
Are you sure you want to know what happens? It’s a sad story…
August 13, 2009 at 10:27 pm
[...] brilliant idea and the work that they spent on it (well done ladies). (See their creativeness HERE). Although i am sadly not a part of that fab group, i had brought 2 bombs with me to throw on a [...]
August 19, 2009 at 5:54 pm
I’m into teeth and I LOOOOOOOOOOOVE mothra, mothra rules. mothra rocks I LOVE MOTHRA
August 19, 2009 at 11:32 pm
If Mothra was still around he’d love to hear that. It’s what Mothra would have wanted.
August 20, 2009 at 1:25 am
You all are brilliant. I can’t believe you put an angel in the web :0
August 20, 2009 at 2:09 am
[...] waterloo, yarnstorm It is fair to say that small and fluffy parts of my soul went into the Web of Woe. Standing before it’s beast-trapped span of stitching and spiderness a mix of pride, horror [...]
August 20, 2009 at 2:10 am
[...] In the dark and dingy depths of the Leake Street tunnel we, the Knit the City Yarn Corps, lost our Web of Woe not 24 hours after it was so carefully [...]
December 13, 2009 at 2:34 am
i am interested in making the freaky stuff where can i buy patterns…
December 16, 2009 at 3:44 pm
The patterns come from our rather deranged minds. Poke about in yours and see what you can find. Go on.