WHY?

What are the underlying subversive, feminist and political aims behind your woolly street art?

They've put a giant squid on a the father of modern biology! There must be a catch!

Desperate for us to be waving woolly protest banners, setting yarny bras on fire and shoving little old knitting ladies face-first into a vat of hot stitched subversion? 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?!

Many folks hound us for a gritty underside to our kooky little knits. We’d like to leave them wondering but they keep asking. So we’ll keep it simple.

We are unashamed to admit that we yarnstorm most simply because unleashing our squishy art on the world makes us and others happy. Put an 8-metre giant knitted squid on a statue of the father of modern biology, or a giant cosy on a phonebox under the paranoid gaze of CCTV, and see how it makes you feel. Go on. We’ll wait here… See?

There’s a bubbling love of life behind our street art. Stony-faced and outraged art has its place, but life is also beautiful, enchanting, heart-squeezingly graceful and all kinds of weird. Consider it a stitched shove that whispers “Wake up! The world is a mad and marvellous place and we all get to live in it.”

If we must have a mission then one thing we do hope is that our sneaky stitching encourages others to bring their city to life in ways only they can imagine. After all a city without citizens is just  an empty shell of a place.

We are women who are very passionate about our beliefs. We do have strong opinions and grand ideas in the tangles of our brains. We’re just not screaming them through our stitching. You’ll have to listen more carefully.

Change and making the world a better place can be done with a grin instead of a grimace, a whisper instead of a bellow. What we do can alter the way people look at their world. How it alters it is up to them.

That’s really our point. You shouldn’t need to be told what to see in our stitching. It’s your mind and your world. Start thinking. We’ll keep on knitting.