paint and grime: Woolly Abandon

Feeling wild? Reckless? Want to break the law?? Well then, whip out those knitting needles and throw caution to the wind, live on the edge, cover something very public in your very best, brightest knitting.

Warm up a bus shelter, give the rubbish bin a cosy jumper, show everyone that tree trunks look great in cable knits too. Yarnstorm your neighbourhood.

Guerrilla knitting, graffiti knitting, urban knitting or yarn bombing. Call it what you will, the movement first garnered international attention in 2007 when the Jafagirls knit up some trees in Yellow Springs, Ohio and called it The Knit Knot Tree. Illegal knitting in a place called Yellow Springs? It doesn't get more badass than that.

Meanwhile, over in London, graffitti knitting collective Knit The City operate out of a woolly-lined bunker. It's members, all with terrifying assumed names (Deadly Knitshade, Shorn-a the Dead, Knitting Ninja) are constantly conspiring new ways to "enhance public places or objects with graffiti knitting". So far they have spruced up a phone box in Parliament Square, spun a spidery web of yarn in Waterloo and thrown a huge knitted squid into the lap of the Charles Darwin statue at London's Natural History Museum.

Closer to home we have the Twilight Taggers, knitting havoc across Melbourne. Telegraph poles, library books, bike handlebars and parking meters are no longer safe with these knitwits loose on the streets. Lock up your fixies and children, they might be next.