The Fastener

Learn to yarnstorm at Knit the City’s Yarnstorm Bootcamp

Posted by Deadly Knitshade on Feb 7, 2012 in Deadly Knitshade, Events, The Fastener, Travelling Yarnstorms | 2 comments

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: Handmade Heroes! The Knit the City Book Launch

Posted by Deadly Knitshade on Sep 22, 2011 in Book Launch, Books, Deadly Knitshade, Events, Lady Loop, London, London Book Launch, Movies, Permission to Yarnstorm, Shorn-a the Dead, The Fastener, Yarn Corps, Yarnstorms | 1 comment

when the Knit Signal shone on the skies above Soho, the KTC Yarn Corps: Deadly Knitshade, Shorn-a the Dead, The Fastener and Lady Loop, leapt into the Knitmobile and faster than a stitched speeding bullet hotfooted it our book launch.

Permission to Yarnstorm: Tate Britain Unexpected Artworks

Posted by Deadly Knitshade on Sep 14, 2011 in Deadly Knitshade, London, Permission to Yarnstorm, The Fastener, Yarnstorms | 0 comments

What happens when one of London’s most famous art museums invites two of London’s most infamous sneaky stitchers through the doors and lets them bring the yarnstorm with them? Simple really. We took the art world and our world of woolly mischief and squished them together. Deadly Knitshade and The Fastener yarnstormed Tate Britain in arty style… The Fastener conjured up colours from the Tate’s collection. All that painty potential squeezed into tiny tubes ready to break free and run riot on the canvas, patiently waiting to be dabbed onto the end of a brush and turned...

Baby yarnstormers and graffiti knitting artists in residence

Posted by Deadly Knitshade on Jul 4, 2011 in Baby Button, Deadly Knitshade, London, Solo Yarnstorms, The Fastener, Yarn Corps | 2 comments

Things have been a bit quiet on the Knit the City front as our Yarn Corps are busy, busy, busy. Fear not! We’ll be back soon but in the meantime both Deadly Knitshade and The Fastener have been busy.

A Right Royal Stitch Up: Behind the Hubbub of Hearts

Posted by Deadly Knitshade on Apr 27, 2011 in Deadly Knitshade, How We Made, Lady Loop, London, Shorn-a the Dead, The Fastener | 0 comments

Royal Wedding bells are clanging so loud across the UK that most of us can barely hear ourselves knit.

Love the Royal madness or loathe it there is no escape, and back in February we gave our own woolly Royal wave to the big event and wrote London a handmade love letter, with our Hubbub of Hearts.

Permission to yarnstorm: Kirby’s Epic Yarnstorm

Posted by Deadly Knitshade on Feb 26, 2011 in Deadly Knitshade, London, Permission to Yarnstorm, Shorn-a the Dead, The Fastener, Yarnstorms | 7 comments

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…