The practice of yarn bombing originated in the US with Texas woman Magda Sayeg. When managing a clothes shop in 2005, Sayeg was struck by her ugly concrete and steel surroundings, and so tried to cheer things up by knitting a door handle for the shop and a cover for the pole of a nearby road sign. Spurred on by the positive reactions of passers-by, she began splattering her creations in different locations across the world, and yarn bombing was born.