Knitta Please’s Magda Sayeg Is Covering the World in Yarn!

<a href="http://inhabitat.com/tag/yarn-bombing/">Yarn bombing</a> -- the practice of knitting cozy, psychedelic sweaters and scarves for inanimate objects on the street -- grew to prominence in the middle of last decade, and it doesn't seem to be going away anytime soon. Leading the charge is <a href="http://www.magdasayeg.com/home.php">Magda Sayeg</a>, founder of <a href="http://inhabitat.com/knitta-please-graffiti-you-can-cuddle-up-to/">Knitta Please</a>, who has been called "the mother of yarn bombing". Sayeg has been producing some of the cleverest, most mind-boggling yarn art we've ever encountered.

In one of her most ambitious installations, Magda Sayeg knit an entire staircase in Sydney.

Here, Magda yarn bombed both a scooter and a girl.

In Paris, Magda Sayeg crocheted a leg warmer, shown here with the Eiffel Tower in the background.

In one of her more dramatic works, Sayeg knitted colorful covers for the gun and dagger of this large statue in Bali.

Outside of the Texas state capitol in Austin, Sayeg yarn-bombed several rows of tree trunks.

In 2011, Magda Sayeg worked with the North Brooklyn Public Art Coalition to produce "Plan Ahead," a large installation beneath the Williamsburg Bridge.

Way back in October 2005, Sayeg founded Knitta Please, a collective of yarn bombers who set to work covering mundane urban objects like parking meters, street signs and lamp posts with colorful yarn.

Fast-forward seven years, and Sayeg is still at it, but with time her projects have grown more ambitious and audacious, covering whole cars, buses and motorcycles with yarn.

Like any form of graffiti, there’s a subversive aspect to yarn bombing, but it’s also the rare form of street art that property owners don’t seem to mind (after all, yarn is easier to remove than paint), and in fact, they often embrace it.

In 2010 Sayeg told the Wall Street Journal that she rarely hand-knits. "That's the irony of it all—I'm still not good at knitting," she said.

Sayeg has been working on some large commissioned works recently, including the massive “Plan Ahead” installation in New York, covering the AC ductwork of Etsy.com’s headquarters in Brooklyn, and a solo show in Rome.