Knit the City are a crack team of woolly warriors turning the city Knitwise since February 2009.
Knit the City are part of an ongoing campaign to guerrilla knit the city of London, and beyond that the world.
No part of the city is safe from Knit the City’s woolly war on the mundane, humdrum and expected. We will bring woolly sunshine to you where ever you dwell. We’re nice like that.
Each of the Yarn Corps‘ individuals have their own reasons for their knitty crimes.
Guerrilla knitting or ‘yarnstorming’ (or ‘yarn bombing‘ with a nod to our guerrilla knitting cousins across the pond and Knitta Please who inspired us to begin our yarnstorming campaign) is the art of covering part of the world in a knitted or crocheted fabric. It is a street art that harks back to woolly thoughts of grandmas and nice cups of tea by the fire, takes that stereotype by the blue rinse and drags it kicking and screaming into the street to wrap round a lamppost, blanket a bollard, or swathe a signpost.
7 Comments
June 29, 2009 at 4:26 pm
Love this! What a neat idea.
June 30, 2009 at 12:49 am
Thanks.
Feel free to yarnstorm your own neighbourhood. Go on.
September 14, 2009 at 11:45 pm
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October 18, 2009 at 10:03 pm
I uh, would not recommend you do that. Knit some flowers to put on the grave? ps. KTC, I’m writing an article on you for my school newspaper.
October 18, 2009 at 10:10 pm
We wouldn’t do it either. Bit of an odd thing to do…
Yay! Do we get to see your school paper article when it’s written?
February 25, 2010 at 11:04 am
Hi! Wonderfull idea!
I’m from Munich and I’m seriously thinking about knit this city, too
Greez,
Antonia
March 9, 2010 at 4:35 pm
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