Crafty graffiti turns clever with this example of spraypaint sneakery from "the Banksy of Bulgaria". The anonymous artist has turned figures from the "Moving with the Times," sculpture in Sofia's city centre, into American icons and DC Comics characters.
Superman, Robin, the Joker, Ronald McDonald and Captain America are all there in fabulous spray-paint splendour.
Break out the yarn and get sneaky with your stitching! It's International Yarnbombing Day!
To celebrate the big event here are ten of our favourite graffiti knits and links to the sneaky stitchers who created them, from the quirky craft of Knit the City to the street knits of Knitorious MEG.
Now get out there and start yarnstorming stuff with your knitted and crocheted goodness, dammit!
Click on the image below to wander through the woolly gallery.
Yarnbombing, yarnstorming, knitting graffiti or fibre street art. Whatever you call it it's a tradition that is popping up in all corners of the world and making more waves than ever before. But how did it all begin?
The team are asking you to help keep an independent film on a craft phenomenon rolling and you'll be rewarded too. Not only will you get a warm fuzzy feeling, there's also the chance to be credited in the final cut. If you can't help with cash there are other ways to help .
Give a little, give a lot. Help the cinematic storytellers proudly take craft to the big screen.
This year Worldwide Knit in Public Day crashes headlong with International Yarnbombing (or yarnstorming for the less violent) Day in a glorious spectrum of public purling this year on June 11.
To celebrate both of these Stitch London, the city's radioactive woolly Godzilla which has recently gone global, are holding their HUGE annual Stitch Crawl (going multi-craft after being the Knit Crawl for four years) to invite all crafty types to come out and craft in public in an epic tour taking in London's parks and a royal palace. They'll be graffiti knitting all the way too.
If you fancy it but can't join them then it's likely there is an event of one or the other in a city or town near you. Check out the WWKIP Day website for listings in your area and wander over to the International Yarnbombing Day on Facebook for more info on the sneaky stitching side of things. Or start one of your own.
Get out there and stitch where folks can see. Go on.
What's this? People are knitting pieces of fabric and putting them on objects in public places! Why that's unheard of! Woolly applause for the folks at the New York Times for the Graffiti's Cozy, Feminine Side that appeared in their Fashion and Style section.
Hunter Fine told Gothamist "Urban Traps is a project where we lay traps for certain subcultures. Our goal is protect neighborhoods from infestation and collect different species for further study."
There's plenty of graffiti knitting out there but HOTTEA is yarnstorming with a difference.
In an interview with MPLSart, the duo explain "The HOTTEA project developed after a trip to jail, but it was also heavily inspired by past experiences: A grandmother teaching the skill of knitting, anti-gay bullying from kids at school, and, most importantly, the relationships that that were developed along the way -- negative, or positive."
This time-lapse video of their Socorro installation is inspiring stuff:
Crafty graffiti turns clever with this example of spraypaint sneakery from "the Banksy of Bulgaria". The anonymous artist has turned figures from the "Moving with the Times," sculpture in Sofia's city centre, into American icons and DC Comics characters. 
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