Crochet Me A City

Opinion is hugely divided on the issue of graffiti, and I am talking about the very creative variety which is both artistic and has some kind of social voice, as opposed to the 'Govan Young Team Was Ere' kind. I personally am a big fan of Banksy and the few bits of graffiti we have in Glasgow by him always make me smile as he seems to genuinely have something to say. Of course, there will be others who see it the scourge of the inner city and a symptom of a greater social problem.

But there is one kind of graffiti I think that even the most hardened anti-graffiti campaigner would be offended by, and it seems to be popping up over the world. Crochet and knitting graffiti. Crews of nimble fingered knitters are brightening up the urban landscape with colourful yarn covering trees, statues and even entire buildings.

Imagine waking up to find a crocheted tree in the park or scarf around a statue's neck?! Beats Glasgow's Duke of Wellington statue with the traffic cone which seems constantly perched on top his head.

Queen Michelle

images from www.deputy-dog.com

Comments

[Natali]

Funnily enough, I am really really pro-graffiti and street art, but I hate that people are covering trees with anything. If you're covering the bark of trees, you're messing with the ecological balance of insects/birds that live there. And that is not cool.

The rest of it is lovely however.

[Isabel]

That tree just made me smile. What a lovely, heartwarming form of 'graffiti'.

[Bouncing Evil Ginner]

That's amazing. I can't even imagine how to crochet around a tree or a bollard or big chain link. Very pretty!! I like the scarf too :)

[The Six Six Sick Girls]

These pictures are amazing! Does anyone know where they are from? It looks like the writing in the background is Swedish.

[lady coveted]

i love knitta please...
my favorite was the jimi hendrix guitar warmer in seattle.

[Tiffany]

I'm totally digging the crochet random link in the chain photo.
That is just spectacular.

Yay crochet!

[LD]

Living in Glasgow I have two opinions about graffiti on one side l think it’s really cool, especially when there’s an agenda like the ‘f*** capitalism’ one which have managed to make their way onto various walls around my uni and also if it looks good which I guess is subject to opinion , though on the other hand I don’t appreciate knowing ‘Steph loves Redo’ or any other nedish message left for the masses who take the bus. And I love the traffic cone on the Duke of Wellington statue though I do think he needs a style up-date maybe a blower hat or we could go a bit more dangerous and give him a beret.

[Paloma]

What!!! That's RAVISHING

[Paloma]

In which city is this?

[Ally]

There is a tree covered in crocheted graffitti in Melbourne too! It is beautiful and unexpected

[enc]

I love this. I wish someone here would do it.

[Brigadeiro]

I just got back from Melbourne, which has some amazing graffiti (I have a poor example in my recent post), but crochet graffiti? It looks amazing!

Ally (above) - where was the crocheted graffiti tree in Melbourne? shame I missed it!

[Chichi]

Is so amazing what you could do with crochet. However I wonder what they would look like after few raindrops or when it just to happen to snow.

[Shen-Shen]

This is amazing!

I kinda want to go cover things with yarn now.. Hmm..!

[Ms Constantine]

Wow. I thought that the tress must be photoshopped at first. That's truly amazing.

I generally don't have a problem with graffiti if it's artistic, like the Banksy stuff. But in NZ most of the graffiti is about some stupid person trying to get their "tag" out and scrawling their name everywhere. It's ugly.

[Mike]

thats amazing
i wonder how they croched all the way up a tree

[stephanie rose]

Hello, I love your blog and would be eternally happy if someone visited my fashion blog at http://lifeandstuf.blogspot.com/
thank you!
s

[eyeliah]

I love these, I wonder how they may look after they get some weather on them though - icky! If I could crochet I would so do this in my town!

[lopi]

Ha, back in June I did a paper for my architecture school on this subject, titled "Guerilla Kniting". I really had fun researching it AND I got a 9 out of 10. Two birds with one stone!

[KD]

That's super amazing stuff right there!

[Kitty]

Thats amazing! I would love to wake up and find something like that near me!

Kitty x

[Sal]

This pleases me. Like down deep in my soul.

[daywalker]

absolutely gorgeous! much better than billboards and advertising :)

[the likkle girl who wurve pwetty things]

Corrine, whose blog I read, is an English artist living in Ohio. She's a part of the JafaGirls art collective and they make "artistic mischief" via knit graffiti too. See photos here:- http://sitekreator.com/jafagirls/other_art_projects.html

[The Fashion Assistant]

Sooooo cute!!!!
I can't crochet but I can finger crochet!!!