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• DomiKNITrix

  Saturday, April 24th, 2010

  DomiKNITrix is a guerilla insurgent who deals with War Studies by day, and knits hand grenades by night. She likes to think of herself as the Boudicca of Sketty, and has been known to disable passing chariots with her needles. DomiKNITrix writes Antifestos and is indoctrinating her daughter, Baby Gaga, into the Dark Arts of [...]

• Madame La Loop

  Friday, April 23rd, 2010

  Quite at ease with a hook in hand, or wielding a pair of pins, Madame La Loop seems to have a penchant for making iddy-biddy little things out of yarn.  Headtorch and needle at the ready for the odd late night yarnarchy-bomb, Madame finds great delight in sharing her and her sister Yarnarchists’ creations with [...]

• The Purly Queen

  Friday, April 23rd, 2010

  The Purly Queen is a founding Yarnarchist.  She didn’t know that she was a Yarnarchist, or even that there was such a thing, until one night early in 2010 when a 3am conversation with two other soon-to-be Yarnarchists led to a consensus that what Swansea needs is a crew of punk grafitti knitters.  It was a moment of [...]

• Sista Stitch

  Friday, April 23rd, 2010

  A founding member of the Yarnarchists, Sista Stitch hails from South Wales. Having spied gorgeous knitted trees on her travels, she realised that she could use her needle skills for good, brightening the lives of others with colour & yarn. She loves knit purl but can’t get with the whole crochet thing. [...]