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Knitters turn to graffiti artists with 'yarnbombing'

telegraph.co.uk — Graffiti artists have added a new tool their traditional aerosol cans - knitting needles and a ball of wool.

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  • emecks, on 01/21/2009, -3/+69At last something to keep Banksy's grandmother occupied.
  • RadiatedAnt, on 01/22/2009, -0/+44Knitta please...
  • mbelrose, on 01/21/2009, -0/+35When knitting needles are outlawed, only outlaws will have knitting needles.
  • awtripp, on 01/22/2009, -0/+21Knitta stole my bike!

    ....and made it a sweater?
  • Zippo, on 01/21/2009, -1/+13Better hope there's no kittens nearby.
  • harristotle, on 01/22/2009, -1/+12"Quick before the cops get here!"
    Click click click click click
    "Damnit James, stop working on your mom's sweater!"
  • inigomntoya, on 01/22/2009, -1/+10Vandalism is not funny. It is sad that old people like this are forced out of the nursing homes and onto the streets with only a ball of yarn and knitting needles.
  • mjwildcat, on 01/22/2009, -0/+9Stitch n' Bitch ftw
  • GVR90, on 01/22/2009, -2/+11Wow, it's not from the Onion.
  • lelebelle, on 01/22/2009, -0/+8Hooligans.
  • Narcism, on 01/22/2009, -4/+12And instead of working 9-5, I could be at a soup kitchen! Instead of buying a couch, I could be buying material and sewing blankets! Instead of driving to work, I could be walking 15km (9 miles?).
  • no2gates, on 01/22/2009, -1/+7That is so cool. Plus it's warm and toasty..
  • protogenxl, on 01/22/2009, -0/+6Young Man: Oh well we sometimes feel we're to blame in some way for what our gran's become. I mean she used to be happy here until she, she started on the crochet.

    Reporter: (off-screen) Crochet?

    Young Man: Yeah. Now she can't do without it. Twenty balls of wool a day, sometimes. If she can't get the wool she gets violent. What can we do about it?
  • Groucho88, on 01/22/2009, -0/+6Old people will take over the world one day...
  • kodekitten, on 01/22/2009, -0/+6As a knitter struggling to survive a New England winter..... I kinda feel like this is a waste of warm yarn :>
  • miggie, on 01/23/2009, -0/+5As a knitter I approve this fad!
  • zip000, on 01/22/2009, -0/+4I knit entirely too slowly to use it for graffiti.

    It took me like a month to make a scarf...and it is only a so-so scarf at that.
  • TalkGibberish, on 01/22/2009, -5/+9I swear that says "YAMbombing"
  • roxbot, on 01/22/2009, -0/+4Cats.
  • inactive, on 01/22/2009, -1/+5I wonder if these artists listen to hippy hop.
  • torchstar, on 01/23/2009, -0/+3What happens when it rains? The bus may not fit in its sweater anymore...
  • digmystuff, on 01/21/2009, -12/+15REPOST.

    Here is the better mirror, more images + video:
    http://deputy-dog.com/2008/11/urban-knitting-world ...
  • sexybobo, on 01/22/2009, -1/+4And since it only takes a pair of scissors to remove doesn't damage anyone's property.
  • tgjerusalem, on 01/22/2009, -0/+3It was derelict before they got to it.
  • jgray1975, on 01/22/2009, -1/+4What a waste to time. Should do something more valuable with their time like play video games or surf Digg.
  • boozedrinker, on 01/22/2009, -1/+4I don't know it seems to me that it's a ***** ton of time to invest just to go throw it on something - knitting takes forever. What a waste of time! I mean, you could be masturbating or something with that time!
  • inactive, on 01/22/2009, -0/+3Gangsters knitting out their territories, this is the hard knock life.
  • jaggedsphere, on 01/23/2009, -0/+3knitwits...
  • mattearle, on 01/22/2009, -1/+4That first pattern towards the front of the bus is totally from here: http://www.knittingillustrated.com/beautiful-patte ...

    Hilarious (embarrassing) that I know that.
  • lucienve, on 01/23/2009, -0/+2Hrm - Why are the signs on the bus (and on the tires, and windows...) in what appears to be Chinese, when the article says the woman is from Texas?
  • DulcetTone, on 01/23/2009, -0/+2Finally, someone trying to keep society from unraveling
  • e1en0r, on 01/23/2009, -0/+2Wooligans.
  • mogdor, on 01/22/2009, -1/+3Yes, that's the name of the website.
  • newman8r, on 01/23/2009, -0/+2yeah, covering up stop signs is always a good idea
  • ,,|,_, on 01/23/2009, -0/+2Knitta Please is a group that started in Houston. They now have members all over the world. Folks from Houston have also knitted a stone in the Great Wall of China and other silly things while on vacation.

    http://www.knittaplease.com/
  • inigomntoya, on 01/22/2009, -0/+2Eh - they'll die off...
  • banmeagaindigg, on 01/22/2009, -1/+3kerning fail
  • KingGorilla, on 01/23/2009, -0/+2Well you can always stay in the bus with the heater on.

    YO DAWG. I HEARD YOU LIKE TO SURVIVE WINTERS SO WE PUT A BUS IN YO SWEATER SO YOU CAN STAY WARM WHILE YOU STAY WARM
  • bacon_skoda, on 01/23/2009, -0/+2i like You just got Yarned better.
  • leahface, on 01/27/2009, -0/+2There was something similar to this on digg a couple of months ago. It's so fun.

    http://digg.com/arts_culture/urban_knitting_the_wo ...
  • bacon_skoda, on 01/23/2009, -0/+2"yea i think i'll go spent 140 hours to knit something that will be destroyed woohoo!"

    Yet there's tons of people on WoW
  • G001, on 01/23/2009, -0/+2Ravelry.com's tagline, though you have to sign in to see it:

    "Where my stitches at?"
  • ncapone, on 01/23/2009, -0/+2Grandma?
  • KingGorilla, on 01/23/2009, -0/+1going at about 40 mph. May have turn signal on despite no sign of making a lane change
  • threon, on 01/22/2009, -1/+3gayfitti
  • sammydeath, on 01/23/2009, -1/+2not graffiti atall, just some weirdos tryna make a quick buck off the "street art" trend, and looks like its working being such a paper as the telegraph
    Knitting? come on....hows that cool
  • squeevey, on 01/22/2009, -3/+4I think what siszam is getting at, is that the time you are wasting knitting something for a bus, you knit something that is going to be MORE purposeful.

    Sure we could all do things actively to help people, but this just is somewhat baffling. I look at that bus and I see a bunch of blankets.
  • JustinHopewell, on 01/23/2009, -0/+1Digg up, thanks for sharing.
  • chedonline, on 01/22/2009, -1/+2Oh yeah, much more efficient.
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