Artigianati.com

By Nicole Saidi

(CNN) -- Forget spray-painting crude symbols under the cover of night. Colorful knitters armed with needles and skeins of yarn are unleashing their own brand of colorful guerilla art to breathe new creativity and spirit into the machismo of urban art.

Denise Litchfield of Sydney, Australia, is one of these global artists. She helped cover an old men's restroom with yellow yarn designs, and then shared photos of the display with CNN iReport. She says she loves guerrilla knitting because it's so unique, different and unmasculine.

"It's a response to the growing street art world to make a distinctly feminine statement in urban art in a way that is far less harmful to the surroundings. As in, it does not need solvents or cleansers to remove. It's stitched on, and if you don't like it, you unpick it."......

Read more at -  http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/12/04/knitting.irpt/