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Still, yarn bombing seems to be having its moment in pop culture.

In addition, a type of graffiti called yarn bombing, has spread worldwide.

People who push a stroller for twins around with only one baby in it, and yarn bombing.

Yarn bombing is supposed to "cheer people up and enliven the environment," she says.

Yarn bombing was cute for a month; now it's annoying and should be fineable.

Yarn bombing is a form of street art where people cover public objects with colourful knitted designs.

Yarn bombing's popularity has spread throughout the world.

The street art has been called "knit graffiti" and yarn bombing or "yarnstorming".

Video projection, yarn bombing and Lock On sculpture became popularized at the turn of the 21st century.

In Albany, yarn bombing grew from community angst over a pub that was demolished and not, so far, rebuilt at the town's main beach.

Originally a graffiti painter, Reiger switched to "yarn bombing" after spending time in jail for using paint.

What is yarn bombing?

That same year, the yarn bombing book from Canada reached Albany as a Christmas present to a 15-year-old from an older cousin.

Photo: A woman puts knitted yarn on a street pole during a 'yarn bombing' in Sydney last week.

"I had heard about urban yarn bombing in towns in England and I had wanted to do something similar," she said.

But local knitters fancied marking the occasion with a spot of 'yarn bombing', aka 'graffiti knitting'.

Anyone handy with a pair of needles is encouraged to take part in International Yarn Bombing Day on 9 June.

Three film crews contacted her about making yarn bombing documentaries, and several graduate students e-mailed her about writing theses on the subject.

Many of these people also reached out to Magda Sayeg, a 37-year-old Texan who is considered by many to be the mother of yarn bombing.

"I've no idea who is responsible, it might be 'yarn bombing', but I crochet and I know that they are proper crochet stitches," she added.

The book borrows from the vernacular of street graffiti and half-jokingly positions yarn bombing as an illicit alternative for knitters bored making yet another Christmas sweater.

For more information on how to make them and where to send them, visit the Yarn Bombing Los Angeles Call for Entry page.

YBLA organically grew out of a series of participatory yarn bombing events in Los Angeles, California.

The last month has been particularly busy ever since a Canadian knitter declared June 11 International Yarn Bombing Day on Facebook.

Whether yarn bombing is the work of artists or glorified knitters, the view of law enforcement is clear: it is considered vandalism or littering.

Yarnbombing is another recent form of graffiti.

They have also brought yarnbombing to their community in Essex with their postbox yarnbombs.

By then the group adopted the collective name Yarnbombing Los Angeles (YBLA).

Yarnbombing Los Angeles (YBLA) is a group of guerrilla knitters that have been collaborating since 2010.

Yarnbombing 18th Street formed a Facebook page and was soon joined by 50 local and international cohorts who signed up to create their own original site-specific installations.

Joann Matvichuk of Lethbridge, Alberta founded International Yarnbombing Day, which was first observed on 11 June 2011.

Another book, CAFAM Granny Squared: Yarnbombing Los Angeles was published in 2013, to document the event of that name.

Inverness Old Town Art, which is behind the scheme, has refused to say how much of the budget provided by the Scottish Arts Council and the council has been allocated to the week-long "yarnbombing" project.

But they can strike anywhere and on Saturday, June 11th this global network of "graffiti knitters" will target objects in local areas that they want to enhance with their handiwork, as part of the first International Yarnbombing Day.

Chelsea Conaboy provided readers with a brief history of yarnbombing: “The evolution of knitting as street art is largely credited to the work of Magda Sayeg, 36, an artist who began yarnbombing five years ago.

As a graffiti knitting street artist she is attributed with creating the term 'yarnstorming' as a less violent alternative to the popular yarnbombing in graffiti knitting and the creation of the 'stitched story' style of graffiti knitting using amigurumi and handmade objects to create a themed artwork rather than the traditional cosy.