Take a walk in Uptown Waterloo and you can’t miss their work. It’s everywhere. You’ll be hard pressed to find bike rack that hasn’t been affected.
And it’s not just bike racks anymore it’s spread.
Yes you guessed it, uptown’s been besieged with Guerilla Knitters. These brave folk aim to make our streets a little more warm and fuzzy by random Yarnbombing. I love it!
Perhaps the best example I found was at the artandmylife blog. Gotta applaud the efforts to make a tank warmer and fuzzier!
If you look at the bike rack knits, notice that they have to be finished on-site. It’s not velcroed or anything. they finish the knit at installation time. Pretty neat.
Call me Scrooge, but I don’t like them. I’m a knitter and I like the idea but I think a lot of them are ugly. As for decorating the tank – I remember seeing furniture made out of machine guns. I’d like to see THAT kind of transformation of a tank.
I guess the knitters get a thrill out of their guerilla art, but personally, I’m pretty neutral on the look – the aesthetics are not why I like them. I like them because they are protecting the paint job on my bike. I’m tired of having my bike’s paint scratched off by whatever I lock it to. Keep up the good work, you crazy knitters.
Cambridge is not immune – a whole bridge got hit back in the summer.
Cool one Kevin.
Check out this one we had sent in by a Russian reader
http://pionaa.livejournal.com/30800.html
There’s a link on pionaa’s live journal to a flicker site with a bike from NYC that’s most appropriate. I’d have linked in directly but in order to respect the author I’ll post the link – http://www.flickr.com/photos/slice/4728980633/
Our friends from Wonderful Waterloo posted facebook links to two knitting gangs active in Waterloo Region.
Knitjutsu (The original) – http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=208994482067
Yarn Bombing in Waterloo (The not original) – http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=144544728903784