Fun! Some 69 parking meter poles along Montague Street in Brooklyn Heights are now donning knitted cozies as part of a public art project commissioned by the Montague Street Business Improvement District. Artist and organizer Magda Sayeg (above, far left), the founder of Knitta Please, put the finishing touches on the 69th pole this morning, and unveiled it at a public ceremony, coverd by the
Brooklyn Heights Blog.
Knitta began in August 2005 when knitters were discussing frustration over unfinished projects: half-knitted sweaters and balls of yarn gathering dust. That afternoon, they knit their first door handle, which propelled to a tag crew of knitters, bombing the inner city with vibrant, stitched works of art, wrapped around everything from beer bottles to public monuments and utility poles. I have to admit, this is more fun that last summer's overhyped, less-than-impressive multi-million-dollar waterfalls public art debacle (which, because of its salt water mist, wreaked havoc across the foliage along the Heights' Promenade). This is just plain endearing.
Fun! Some 69 parking meter poles along Montague Street in Brooklyn Heights are now donning knitted cozies as part of a public art project commissioned by the Montague Street Business Improvement District. Artist and organizer Magda Sayeg (above, far left), the founder of Knitta Please, put the finishing touches on the 69th pole this morning, and unveiled it at a public ceremony, coverd by the Brooklyn Heights Blog.
Knitta began in August 2005 when knitters were discussing frustration over unfinished projects: half-knitted sweaters and balls of yarn gathering dust. That afternoon, they knit their first door handle, which propelled to a tag crew of knitters, bombing the inner city with vibrant, stitched works of art, wrapped around everything from beer bottles to public monuments and utility poles. I have to admit, this is more fun that last summer's overhyped, less-than-impressive multi-million-dollar waterfalls public art debacle (which, because of its salt water mist, wreaked havoc across the foliage along the Heights' Promenade). This is just plain endearing.
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