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On Saturday I pulled up to the bike parking near the northwest entrance to Powell’s Books on Couch and noticed this sweet, hand-knit bike rack cozy. I have no idea who made it but I’d love to see more of these (especially on those angular new staple racks on the transit mall). Check it out below…
Does anyone out there know who made this?
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no, but there is an international trend of “knitting graffiti”
for example
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knitta
easy on the paint jobs. nice
Looks crocheted to me, not knitted…
Awesome, whatever the style! 🙂
This is awesome. I assume the final stitches (or whatever) are completed on the bike rack. Whoever is doing this, awesome! I love it.
Now I really feel AT HOME. What a mood lifter. As good a lifter as the blooms and the bicycles. Hollihocks to the knitter!
knitta please
Whoever designed those new bike racks must also own a powder-coating shop. Terrible design.
looks like Knitta to me too.
http://deputy-dog.com/2008/11/urban-knitting-worlds-most-inoffensive.html
Love it. It looks to be a sunny weather design – If you’ve ever left an afghan in the rain it swells, droops and looses structural integrety over the long haul but maybe the sun will dry it out enough that it will go year round – Good timing with our sunny spring weather.
…Maybe they do bicycles, too..(?)
It’s called guerilla knitting. ; )
That is full of awesome
I’m am so convincing my wife to start doing this. Eugene will soon be covered in crochet! (if I can talk her into it.)
A warm bike rack is a happy rack.
Looks like the bike phantom has struck again!
When I first saw this a couple weeks ago there was a little tag on it with the knitter’s blog address:
http://astitch.blogspot.com/
Cool!
😀
The first thing that popped into my head when you mentioned the transit mall racks was gosh, if they don’t like blue staples they’ll hate knitted cozies… :’D
I wonder if it’s the same person who knitted the giant ATM cozy at Backspace: (http://jaybill.com/photos/tags/sitting/tags/superbowl/photo/3271638821/atm-cozy.html)
I LOVE the knitta video . Thanks for sharing, mmann!
I was talking to someone I know about doing this when the new staple racks went up…but I suggested that local knitters/crocheters wait till the new bus mall is up and running for a bit, and trimet/downtown-clean’n’safe stop paying attention once everything’s running smoothly. Until then, I’m guessing bike rack cozies and other graffiti/stickers/tags will be removed immediately for opening festivities/media attention.
If anyone wants to make a group up to tag those staples on the mall with knitting let me know, I’d love to play along. We could form a group on Ravelry or something to organize it.
I agree w/ bikey knitaholic above to wait till hoopla passes. They still may not last particularly long.
But does it rot in the weather?
“Anonymous Rogue Knitters” – from the wikipedia link. I love this. I’m gettin’ my posse ready.
Mark, like anything, it would depend on your materials. There are SOOO many different types of yarn.
I thought Id share this!
I had seen the knits around the round chains sometime ago in the blogesphere and just recently saw it via ffffound.com
here it is 🙂
http://www.fubiz.net/2008/12/23/urban-knitting/
it has weathered pretty well. Here it is, 01.28.2010
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wittcogmbh/4309874165/