Knit the City: your friendly neighbourhood graffiti knitters

Berlin: Bobbing Bear-lin Luftballons – the Movie

In these dark and dismal times of civil unrest, crashing stockmarkets and tins of baked beans that cost an arm and a leg, the world really is in need of a bit of handmade magic. Back in March we travelled all the way to Berlin to release some of our woolly mischief...

Permission to Yarnstorm: Handmade Heroes! The Knit the City Book Launch

when the Knit Signal shone on the skies above Soho, the KTC Yarn Corps: Deadly Knitshade, Shorn-a the Dead, The Fastener and Lady Loop, leapt into the Knitmobile and faster than a stitched speeding bullet hotfooted it our book launch.

Permission to Yarnstorm: Tate Britain Unexpected Artworks

What happens when one of London’s most famous art museums invites two of London’s most infamous sneaky stitchers through the doors and lets them bring the yarnstorm with them? Simple really. We took the art world and our world of woolly mischief and squished them...

Berlin: The lonesome tale of the Woolly Currywurst

The last installment of our Berlin Book Launch: So far our book launch had included floating fairytale Brothers Grimm and ‘I heart Berlin’ bears, flying frog princes, and skybound riverside squid. All of them had enjoyed a bit of the book-launch limelight. It was...

Yarnstorm the Fifteenth: Tree of Tintenfisch

What’s a graffiti knitting book launch celebration without a swarm of skybound squid (or Tintenfisch as squid are called in Germany)?

A Right Royal Stitch Up: Behind the Hubbub of Hearts

Royal Wedding bells are clanging so loud across the UK that most of us can barely hear ourselves knit. Love the Royal madness or loathe it there is no escape, and back in February we gave our own woolly Royal wave to the big event and wrote London a handmade love letter, with...

Yarnstorm the Fourteenth: Bobbing Bear-lin Luftballons

Once upon a time there were four sneaky stitchers who lived in a secret wool-lined Bunker in the heart of the ancient city of London. There they knit and crocheted and made magic with their needles which they sent out into the world to seek its fortune.

Permission to yarnstorm: Kirby’s Epic Yarnstorm

Kirby kidnapped by evil wizard, Yin Yarn, in shock misunderstanding over tomato ownership! The horror! When the world’s most famous computer game company loses one of their best-loved characters in a giant magic sock there are very few people who they can call for help....

"Yarnstorming (also known as yarnbombing): the art of enhancing a public place or object with graffiti knitting"

(Or putting knitting on something unexpected in public and running always giggling wildly)

WHO?

Operating from a secret underground wool-lined bunker in the heart of the busy metropolis of London, Knit the City’s Yarn Corps spend most of their lives operating under assumed names and living their lives like every day people.

WHAT?

Guerilla knitting or ‘yarnstorming’ is the art of conjuring up a piece of knitting or crochet, taking out out in the world, releasing it into the wild, and running away like a mad thing.

WHY?

Frustrated to see we’re not battling society’s horrors by knitting jumpers for homeless baby penguins with tuberculosis? What’s the point of what we do, dammit?!

Sneak Peeks at our Yarnstorms

What happens when one of London’s most famous art museums invites two of...

The last installment of our Berlin Book Launch: So far our book launch had included...

What’s a graffiti knitting book launch celebration without a swarm of skybound squid (or Tintenfisch as squid are called in Germany)?

Kirby kidnapped by evil wizard, Yin Yarn, in shock misunderstanding over tomato...

The Handmade Herd has wended its way across London Bridge and disappeared into the labyrinth of London. Still here? Want more? A last encore? Well, button those lips and slip behind this curtain. Let the Magic Lantern of the sorceresses of Alt Artist show you the wonders of the Handmade Herd with Moving Pictures.

(To tune of 2001: A Space Odyssey) Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa. Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa....

Love. It’s squishy. It’s smooshy. It’s warm and cuddly. And today...

It was an unlikely match: one of Britain’s oldest knitwear designers (they’ve...

We interrupt this programme to bring you breaking news from London’s Natural History...

Shiver me stitched timbers! Knit the City be findin’ themselves marooned at...

Bringing you a bit of festive fibre on film our Fairy Godmothers of Documentrydom, the Alt Artist girls, have put together a little movie of our Knitmare Before Christmas.

Twas the Knit before Christmas in cold London Town, Where a lone ballerina was cast with...

Come closer, mortals, we wish to tell you a tale of tube-flavoured terror… Knit the...

Once in a lifetime a film comes along that will touch your heart, make you laugh till tea comes out of your nose, make you cry till you get a dehydration headache, and make you wish that you could live you life again and do it alllllll so differently that world peace ensued and all famine was wiped out. This is not that film. But it is pretty freaking cool.

“Oranges and Lemons,” said the bells of St Clements. “You owe me five...

In the dark and dingy depths of the Leake Street tunnel we, the Knit the City Yarn Corps,...

Having yarnstormed themselves a scene of horror, the Yarn Corps dissolved into the...

Cor blimey, guvnor. Some cheeky little blighters’ve yarnstormed me dog and...

Covent Garden in the tourist-clogged heart of the city. The Yarn Corps has been eyeing...

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