Yarn Bombing

So, it's been a month and a half since my last post, but I'm keeping with the street art theme.  This time though... its Yarn Bombing!  Yarn bombing (also called yarnbombing, yarnstorming, guerrilla knitting, or graffiti knitting) is a type of graffiti or street art that employs colorful displays of knitted or crocheted cloth rather than paint or chalk.  Yarn bombers target anything from parking meters and trees to statues, cars and buses and like most street artists, these knitters often do their work in the middle of the night. Some artists , like "The Ladies Fancywork Society", hide themselves behind crocheted masks while they work, and although it is technically illegal, there are yet to be any known arrests.  This colorful street art has become such a global phenomenon, that it even has its own day now.  June 11, 2011 was the first annual International Yarnbombing Day.  This is a movement I could get behind!

A knit bike in Brooklyn. Image by Steve Faust.  Imagine having to undue this before your ride home.

This amazing leg warmer on a Parisian statue is a piece by the Knitta Please founder and the mother of yarn bombing, Magda Sayeg.

This Parisian pothole was decorated by activist Juliana Santacruz Herrera.  For more of her work, check this out!

Agata Oleksiak's (Olek) homage to Banksy as seen in The NY Times article, "Graffiti's Cozy, Feminine Side."

This yarn bombed army tank is shown in the book, Yarn Bombing, featuring artists from Yarnbombing.com.
This is definitely one of my favorites because it takes something so tough and destructive and makes it cute and harmless looking.  The little ball of yarn coming out of the gun is amazing!

A colorful picnic by Knitta Please.

And yet another amazing piece by Knitta Please.

Now I just need to see an awesome yarn bomb in person!
Thanks to Apartment Therapy for the info!