Art of Knit the City

Introducing fiber craftsmanship in expansive sunshine in occupied open territories, Knit the City include a paper or fabric tag onto each one work, bearing the logo and site location and the expression "Admit your burglary".
They started their work with a basic 'at home', a wooden obstruction in London's Covent Garden before happening to make their most well-known piece, the Phonebox Cozy, a handknitted snuggled up made to fit a phone enclose London's Parliament Square while leaving the phonebox usable.

From here pieces formed into 'sewed stories' starting with the "Web of Woe", a 13-foot cobweb, complete with insect and victimized people, in London's Leake Street, Twitter's first live yarnstorm including the six houses of worship of the Oranges and Lemons nursery rhyme, a Wall of Wonderland outside the South Bank's IMAX to praise Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland revamp, a danseur statue at the Royal Opera House secured in characters from the Nutcracker Suite, and a string of weaved hearts which they swung from the statue's bow in Piccadilly Circus seven meters high.

The specialists have likewise demonstrated work at Tate Britain and have tuned in workmanship ventures outside the Uk.they have additionally been authorized to create establishments by knitwear outline organization John Smedley at their leader store and machine diversions monster Nintendo.

Knit the City

Knit the City maintains a sense of humour about their group's beginnings and tells a different story each time they are interviewed. The genuine story is that the collective was founded by Deadly Knitshade, later revealed to be author and Stitch London founder Lauren O'Farrell, who anonymously invited five hand-picked members to join forces in February 2009 on a mission to "turn the city knitwise". The collective was partly inspired by O'Farrell's 2007 London Lion Scarf charity event, when her Stitch London craft community created giant scarves for London's Trafalgar Square Lions to raise money for Cancer Research UK, and partly by a 2009 event in which Magda Sayeg of Knitta Please, Stitch London, and Guardian journalist Perri Lewis collaborated in graffiti knitting London's South Bank.

The members of the group use superhero-style names to hide their real identities. Initial Yarn Corps members were Deadly Knitshade, Knitting Ninja, Lady Loop, Shorn-a the Dead, Bluestocking Stitching and The Purple Purl, with the addition of The Fastener in October 2009. In creating the group's identity, Knitshade also coined the term 'yarnstorming' as a less violent alternative to the US term yarnbombing. The term has now been adopted by many groups, and was first used in the media on BBC News in June 2009. 

Deadly Knitshade is widely credited with innovating the concept of telling 'stitched stories' in graffiti knitting and crochet, using amigurumi knitted and crocheted characters, creatures and objects. The earliest recorded example of this is Knit the City's "Web of Woe" installation in August 2009, which was installed in London's Leake Street. The concept has since been adopted by groups worldwide and made national news.

Knit the City

Knit the City, are a group of "graffiti knitting and crochet" street artists founded in London, England in 2009. The collective is credited with being the first to go beyond the simple 'cosies' of early graffiti knitting to tell 'stitched stories', using knitted and crochet amigurumi creatures and objects in their public installations.. This practice has been taken up by groups internationally.

The title Knit the City: A Whodunnknit Set in London by Deadly Knitshade was published in German by  in February 2011, and in the UK by Summersdale in September 2011. The book covers the group's history and showcases examples of their street art.

The street art has been called "knit graffiti" and yarn bombing or "yarnstorming". The group's aim is to "to guerilla knit the city of London, and beyond that the world, and bring the art of the sneaky stitch to a world without wool".

Knit the City was founded by Deadly Knitshade in February 2009 with six members. The 'Yarn Corps' grew to seven members with the addition of The Fastener in late 2009. In October 2010 two members left the group and one became inactive, leaving the group with four active members.
The group continue to graffiti knit as a foursome of Deadly Knitshade, The Fastener, Shorn-a the Dead and Lady Loop.

Knit the City

Knit the City, are a group of "graffiti knitting" artists founded in London, England in 2009. The collective distinguished themselves by being one of the first to go beyond the simple 'cosies' of early graffiti knitting, handmaking knitted and crochet creatures and objects to add to public areas, sculptures or structures, creating fibre art installations that were influenced by their surroundings.

The street art has been called "knit graffiti" and yarn bombing or "yarnstorming". Their mission is to "to guerilla knit the city of London, and beyond that the world, and bring the art of the sneaky stitch to a world without wool".

Knit the City was founded by Deadly Knitshade in February 2009 with six members. The 'Yarn Corps' grew to seven members with the addition of The Fastener in late 2009. In October 2010 two members left the group and one became inactive, leaving the group with four active members.

The group have continued to graffiti knit as a foursome of Deadly Knitshade, The Fastener, Shorn-a the Dead and Lady Loop.