With the exception of Madame Defarge, the vengeful knitter of Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities, needlework has never been the most revolutionary of pursuits. Slow, laborious and meditative, it’s everything contemporary culture is not. But recently knitting — and its even squarer cousin, crocheting — has gotten something of a rebellious name around town. That name is yarn bombing. Yarn bombers take their craft to the streets, stitching cozies for bike racks, stop signs and sculptures. They knit covers for sidewalk cracks, subway seats, even entire buses. Initially, like graffiti artists, they tagged their quarry in the…
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