Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Who Knew?: Knitta, please....
















































Ok, this is totally cool...

Did -knot- er, not know this existed until today.... Guerilla knitting squads?! That is awesome... The little statue above is in DC, and the trees are by Carol Hummel in Cleveland. There's a "yarnbombing squad" started by Magda Sayeg in Austin, TX that has been doing it around the world, called (gotta love it) Knitta Please...(top picture)

When Knitta Please first began tagging in 2005, yarnbombing was the collective's response to the mass-produced. By inserting handmade art in a landscape of concrete and steel, they were cheekily adding warmth to our urban fixtures. Knit graffiti reengages us with our environment: the parking meters, buses, bike racks, lamp posts, car antennas, columns, statues, exposed plumbing, all of the furniture in our urban world that goes unnoticed every day. And of course, Knitta makes the streets prettier along the way.


Knit-covered trees, little knit hats and scarves for statues, knitted road signs....

4 comments:

Shelayna said...

That tree is so amazingly fabulous! We humans are capable of such whimsy! The statues are pretty great too!

genericitis said...

They've hit up Newtown, Sydney, Australia too;

http://www.flickr.com/photos/genericitis/4410056931/in/set-72157611830426461/

Zabrinah said...

Thank you for sharing!

This is soooooo absolutely cool!

I love it.

:)

Best wishes from one blogger to another,

~Zabrinah

Sarah said...

Ok this is awesome. Forget tagging, everyone should just learn to knit!

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