Thursday, May 31, 2012
Can I get a diet coke with that?
This is a tribute to all the really health conscious Americans out there! I see your litter on the sidewalk daily.
Apparently this is hipster gold
So, I'll be the first to admit that I'm not even sure what a hipster is, but I've been told that my PBR knitter is hipster gold.
Nothing like a cigarette and the Sunday paper
Here is the very first thing I ever attempted to knitter. If you guessed that I was talking about the Sunday paper, you are right, but I gave up and tried a cigarette and the case instead. They turned out ok.
What is Knittering
As most amazing things happen, this idea came from a drunken conversation between my friends and I at two o'clock in the morning. We were talking about yarn bombers, which we are not. There's no beef here with the yarn bombing community, but why's it gotta be all flowers and flutterbys?! We wanted to make an activity for the other knitters. The ones that hated highschool, and loved punk rock. The ones that haven't not stolen a stop sign, or thrown bacon all over a cop car at least one time in their lives. The ones that kinda give a s*** about the environment, but don't care at all about what they wear to work. If even one of these descriptions matches you, then you should read on... So, knittering is litterally knitted litter secured to the ground so that it can't possibly be thrown away! In a sense, it is a response to yarn bombing. We don't want to be pretty or cute; our knitting work is not beautiful. Knittering does not increase the aesthetic value of the neighbourhoods or parks in which we secure our knitter. We aim to make people that engage with our knitter think simultaneously about how gross and how cool this stuff is...but really, it has just been super fun and hilarious to come up with all this junk. Think about what you see on the ground around your neighbourhood and let us know your knittering ideas. Maybe you'll see it on a street corner soon.
Patterns for all of the knittered objects will be available shortly. We want all knitters with the ability to make these objects to be able to obtain the means for creating the knitter. There are only two things that we ask of you if you choose to begin your own knittering project and therefore be in our little knittering army. 1)We would appreciate it if you didn't sell your knitter because it totally defeats the purpose of our social experiment, and 2) don't take this knitting too seriously! Its all in good fun at the end of the day.
p.s. depending on the response to our first knittering raids, I can set up some classes to teach anyone who fancys how to knit some of this trash.
Happy knittering!!!
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