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Yarnstorm the Twelfth: Handmade Herd

Posted by Deadly Knitshade on Feb 21, 2011 in Deadly Knitshade, London, Shorn-a the Dead, The Fastener, Yarnstorms | 6 comments

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

Posted by Deadly Knitshade on Feb 14, 2011 in Deadly Knitshade, Lady Loop, London, Shorn-a the Dead, The Fastener, Yarnstorms | 12 comments

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

Posted by Deadly Knitshade on Feb 11, 2011 in Deadly Knitshade, Lady Loop, London, Permission to Yarnstorm, Shorn-a the Dead, The Fastener, Yarnstorms | 1 comment

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

Posted by Deadly Knitshade on Feb 11, 2011 in Deadly Knitshade, London, Shorn-a the Dead, The Fastener, Yarnstorms | 2 comments

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

Posted by Deadly Knitshade on Oct 17, 2010 in Deadly Knitshade, London, Shorn-a the Dead, Yarnstorms | 7 comments

Shiver me stitched timbers! Knit the City be findin’ themselves marooned at London’s Camden Crawl! What be there to do but yaaaaaaaaaarnstorm, we ask ye? Here be pirates. Here be blasted bilge mice. Here be wenches. Here be hoards of scurvy pirate butterflies. Here be what too much moonshine can do fer yer. The Bluestocking Stitcher’s Freddy Scurvy Danglin’ in t’ wind . Here be Freddy Scurvy. Freshly hung fer a life o’ crime on the high seas. He’d sell his toothless old grandma for a mug full o’ moonshine. I’d not buy her though. She smells like...

Yarnstorm the Ninth: Wall of Wonderland

Posted by Deadly Knitshade on Oct 11, 2010 in Deadly Knitshade, Lady Loop, London, Shorn-a the Dead, The Fastener, Yarn Corps, Yarnstorms | 4 comments

The Yarn Corps were beginning to get very tired of sitting on the South Bank, and of having nothing to do.

They were considering (as well as they could, for the hot day made them feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of knitting something sneaky would be worth the trouble of getting up and finding the yarn, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by them.