What is good//Knit the city

Knitting has quite a specific stereotype. Many people think it is only old women who knit. However over the past few years knitting  has revolutionised and become something within the environment.

'Knit the City make street art. But not as you know it. We are a band of sneaky stitching graffiti knitting and crochet artists. We have an ongoing mission to guerilla knit the city of London, and beyond that the planet, and bring the art of the sneaky stitch to a world without wool.'

Here on the left shows a knitted telephone box in the heart of London. It turns something generic into something unique. The colours and textures give the telephone box a patchwork look and almost like it is a cartoon. This kind of craft applied to the real world attracts toursits. 

'Our squishy street art does many things'
Street art in England can be seen as a criminal offence and an act that is frowned upon. However this 'Knit the city' concept has changed the perception of street art. It has made it innovative cultural.

Knit the City’s Yarn Corps weren’t always of tight-knit band of guerrilla knitters. They were lone woolly wolves, going about their yarnstorms in their own style and stitches. Some of them didn’t even know they had it in them to take their knits to the streets.

It would take a twist in the thread of fate to bring them and their knits together. It may never have taken place, but the thread of fate had other ideas…

A master appeared on the yarn-wrapped horizon. A wandering sensei of the stitch arrived from a far off land. London’s first guerrilla knitting event cast on its first tentative stitches, the South Bank of London was littered with the sneaky knits of a hard day’s yarnstorming. 

http://knitthecity.com/