Question?

Curiousity killed the yarnstormed cat. It was nothing to do with the fact we covered it in yarn. Oh no.

You have questions? We have some answers.

How do you recruit the Yarn Corps?
Becoming an Agent of the Knit the City Yarn Corps and gaining access to the secret wool-lined Yarn Corps bunker requires quite frankly scary levels of yarnstorming obsession and undefinable knitting graffiti superpowers.

The trial of woolly fire involves rituals that the existing agents would rather hang themselves on their own chain stitch noose than disclose. If you are Knit the City Yarn Corps material we will find you. You may wish that we hadn’t.

We do, however, encourage fledgling yarnstormers to shove a link to their yarnstorming blog at us. We’ll shine it up real nice and put it in pride of place on the Other Graffiti Knitters shelf.

Why ‘yarnstorming’ and not ‘yarnbombing’?
Knit the City ‘yarnstorm’ rather than ‘yarnbomb’ as a move away from any terrorist associations, being of a gentler disposition. The Yarn Corps feel a bit sheepish about being labelled as dastardly yarn terrorists. We live in a city where ‘bomb’ is possibly not the best word to bandy about, even if it is woolly. But everyone likes a storm.

Will you take part in our event/publicise our cause/become our dancing monkey?
Agents of the Knit the City Yarn Corps spend 9 to 5 working in ‘real life’ jobs, maintaining our cover stories to protect our secret identities. This means that our time is precious and yarnstorms must be carefully considered.

We also live by the rule that a true yarnstorm comes from within the dark heart of each sneaky stitcher. We cannot be told.

We also have pointy sticks if you become insistent.

Still curious? Email us.

5 Comments

  • Carin
    October 11, 2009 at 4:05 pm

    Hello Knitsters,

    I’ve just relocated to Edinburgh and I’ve been looking for bulky wools/natural fibers to work with. It seems there aren’t many shops that carry that sort of knitting material! Do you have any advice for local/or/online purchasing or is there a knitting underground up North that I can join?

    Thanks,
    Carin

    Reply
    • bluestockingstitcher
      October 11, 2009 at 8:43 pm

      Hi Carin

      We are London based so have little knowledge of the shops of Edinburgh. We also favour yarn made from pure-bred Acrylic. We’d suggest asking these guys about knitting shops in the area http://www.ravelry.com/groups/city-knitty as they are local.

      PS. There is no underground in Edinburgh. I believe the trams do needlepoint, though.

      PPS. We cannot tell you of yarnstorming groups in Edinburgh as the first rule of yarnstorming is that you do not reveal the identities of other yarnstormers. The Edinburgh knitting group mentioned above may be aware of someone, though.

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  • sally cousins
    November 11, 2009 at 3:01 pm

    hi, i’m looking for a charity similar to hats4thehomeless.org, which is american, that i can contribute to in the uk – any ideas?

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