Bombing The Streets With Yarn, BTW I’m Renee
Hey Stitchify readers! I’m honored to have been invited to do a few guest posts this month. Let me tell you a little something about something. I stumbled across an article on a crew called Knitta Please a few years ago in a knitting magazine. It was a short write up that left you hanging and the group was still very much a mystery. I came across another article this past month in another magazine (I’d love to name it but I can’t, I’m a magazine junkie so there are just too many possible reads it could have been in) which inspired me to do a bit of online research about this group of knitters… it goes something like this. Knitta Please began in 2005 with a group of frustrated knitters who had a bunch of unfinished projects lying around. I know I have them, tucked away in corners, in baskets under bookcases and in the backs of closets but I would have never dreamed of creating a group that tagged the streets with knit graffiti. They hit the streets of the cities around the world with chapters in Stockholm, Houston, New York to name a few. Their goal is to make your average street sign, bus stop, parking meter look like art. Are you ready, get your needles out and round up a crew.. you’re gonna need a look out!
Subversive Knitting? Sweet!
Gotta love those pole cozies!