Decorate your town with yarn like STICKKONTAKT.

The guest blogger is STICKKONTAKT and are a crew of graffiti knitters that decorate our streets and squares with yarn and cloths to then write about it on their blog http://www.stickkontakt.blogspot.com/.

People ask us why we knit around public artefacts. We understand why they ask the question. The question is relevant. Although it is difficult to answer. The answer is too long to give to someone passing by. Our graffiti knitting is absolutely political. We hint and point at problems that occur in our society due to how people in the society act, but our knitting is so much more.

Yarns, knitting needles and crochet hooks fill a function in our lives. After many text messages and phone calls we usually manage to agree to a time when our projects on the side of guerilla knitting – work, school, and family – get put on hold. At that point a meeting can take place. Most of the meetings are held at the Stickkontakt headquarters in Årsta; Javasavi Kaffe. Coffee, cookies and a table full of yarn is what we need to get the creativity going. But it also needs a great deal of friendship and verbal communication.

Through communication we create projects that everyone in the group contributes to. The projects mean we come closer to each other and have something in our lives that's just ours. An ongoing process where knitting and crocheting, that means something to us, is in focus and where nobody else can come in. We do something that makes our life meaningful. Our lives are filled with substance. Someone near and dear has called our meetings a “cackling chicken farm”. Perhaps... A guerrilla knitting group of chickens that enrich their lives without apologizing or standing down.