guerrilla knitting
(also guerilla knitting)
noun [mass noun]
The action or activity of covering objects or structures in public places with decorative knitted or crotcheted material, as a form of street art. Also called yarn bombing. if you’ve ever wanted to sing in a choir or take part in guerrilla knitting, now is your chance...
- I might join a guerilla knitting gang and festoon the local park with woolly Christmas decorations.
- Whether you want to call it yarn-bombing or guerrilla knitting, this craze has spread across the world in a colorful display of environmentally friendly public art.
- The infamous guerrilla knitting group, dubbed the 'Graffiti Grannys' have struck again, this time hitting a tree with dozens of pretty white snowflakes.
Derivatives
guerrilla knitter
- A guerrilla knitter has left woolly creations all over Saltburn-by-the-Sea in Teesside.
- The mystery knitter, one of an army of secretive "guerrilla knitters" who have recently sprung up across Britain, has left woolly creations all over the town.
- The guerrilla knitters have also yarn bombed the tree by the War Memorial with lots of Valentine's hearts.