Editing Knitting (section)

==Graffiti==
{{main|Yarn bombing}}
In the 2000s, a practice called knitting graffiti, guerilla knitting, or  [[yarn bombing]]—the use of knitted or crocheted cloth to modify and beautify one's (usually outdoor) surroundings—emerged in the U.S. and spread worldwide.<ref name=yarnbombing>{{cite news  | last = Anonymous  | title = Knitters turn to graffiti artists with 'yarnbombing'  | newspaper = The Telegraph  | date = 2009-01-21  | url = https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/4305406/Knitters-turn-to-graffiti-artists-with-yarnbombing.html  | access-date = 2009-05-25  | location = London  | archive-date = 15 June 2018  | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180615080713/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/4305406/Knitters-turn-to-graffiti-artists-with-yarnbombing.html  | url-status = live  }}</ref> Magda Sayeg is credited with starting the movement in the US and Knit the City are a prominent group of graffiti knitters in the United Kingdom.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2010/oct/10/graffiti-knitting | location=London | work=The Guardian | first=Maddy | last=Costa | title=The graffiti knitting epidemic | date=2010-10-10 | access-date=12 December 2016 | archive-date=22 June 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130622072046/http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/oct/10/graffiti-knitting | url-status=live }}</ref>  Yarn bombers sometimes target existing pieces of graffiti for beautification. For instance, [[Dave Cole (artist)|Dave Cole]] is a contemporary sculpture artist who practiced knitting as graffiti for a large-scale public art installation in Melbourne, Australia for the Big West Arts Festival in 2009. The work was vandalized the night of its completion.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.theage.com.au/national/artists-in-pink-fit-as-big-knit-vandal-unravels-artwork-20091128-jy53.html | location=Melbourne | work=The Age | title=Artists in pink fit as Big Knit vandal unravels artwork | first=Mark | last=Russell | date=2009-11-29 | access-date=18 January 2010 | archive-date=22 January 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160122221523/http://www.theage.com.au/national/artists-in-pink-fit-as-big-knit-vandal-unravels-artwork-20091128-jy53.html | url-status=live }}</ref> A new movie, shot by a Tasmanian filmmaker on a set made almost entirely out of yarn, was partially inspired by "knitted graffiti".<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-11-04/a-tight-knite-film/4351930 | location=Tasmania | work=ABC | title=A new movie, shot by a Tasmanian filmmaker on a set made almost entirely out of yarn, was partially inspired by "knitted graffiti" | first=Fiona | last=Breen | date=2012-11-04 | access-date=4 November 2012 | archive-date=22 January 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160122221524/http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-11-04/a-tight-knite-film/4351930 | url-status=live }}</ref>