NEWS: Knitta, Please!

"We're taking graffiti and making it warm, fuzzy and more acceptable," says AKrylik. "I like the duality there. Also, I really think there can be a lot more to the new, alternative knitting craze than meeting at the local coffee shop every Sunday afternoon to make scarves together -- not that I don't like to do that, too."

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Victim No. 1 is the owner of an SUV in the Museum District. Poly shoves a pink, white and blue cozy on the antenna, bending over just long enough for AKrylik to snap a photo for their Web site, www.myspace.com/knittaplease.

"You know, we have these friends with all these punk-looking little boys," jokes AKrylik. "We should just pay them to tag."

On the way to Westheimer they stop at the corner of Hawthorne and Dunlavy and revisit their greatest work so far: a stop-sign pole wrapped in a five-foot-tall orange-and-blue cozy. "We knotted it on," says AKrylik, "and it took forever."

Buttons, they've learned, are where it's at.

Poly stands guard while AKrylik puts a pink, red and gray swatch on the bike rack at Poison Girl; it's done faster than you can say "Christo." The duo then walks down that stretch of Westheimer that might as well be called Aerosol Alley.

"I've always wanted to have a nice, big, giant garage door and a sign that says, 'Graffiti away, if you're good,' " says AKrylik. "I love Gone and I love Next. Those are two really good taggers."

"I like it when it looks like there's effort, like, 'Man, somebody climbed up on that freeway pole,' " adds Poly.

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"There's really no message or point," says AKrylik. "It's not an ideological experiment or anything -- just something we thought would be fun and funny at the same time."

Speedphreak said:
Knit Dawn of the Dead.

amaz0nmatchu said:

I'll see your knit Dawn of the Dead, and raise you a

knit Cthulhu dildo cosy (no, I'm not the seller).

Speedphreak said:

Wow, that's a tough one to beat....all I've got is a plain old willie warmer: