Lauren O'Farrell, (born 1977) also known as Deadly Knitshade, is an English author and artist. She is best known for playing a major part in the beginnings of the UK graffiti knitting street art scene, creating the Stitch London craft community and founding graffiti knitting and craft collective

Knit the City Knit the City is a group of "graffiti knitting and crochet" street artists founded in London, England in 2009. The collective is credited with being the first to go beyond the simple 'cosies' of early graffiti knitting to tell 'stitched stories' ...

. As a graffiti knitting street artist she is attributed with creating the term 'yarnstorming' as a less violent alternative to the popular yarnbombing in graffiti knitting and the creation of the 'stitched story' style of graffiti knitting using

amigurumi is the Japanese art of knitting or crocheting small, stuffed animal, stuffed yarn creatures. The word is a compound (linguistics), compound of the Japanese words ''ami'', meaning "crocheted or knitted", and ''kurumi'', literally "wrapping", ...

and handmade objects to create a themed artwork rather than the traditional cosy. O'Farrell uses the label Whodunnknit for her work, and lives in London.

Books

* O'Farrell, Lauren (2011) ''Stitch London: 20 Kooky Ways to Knit the City and More'' UK:

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* Knitshade, Deadly (2011) ''Knit the city: A Whodunnknit Set in London.'' UK: Summersdale. * O'Farrell, Lauren (2013) ''Stitch New York: 20 Kooky Ways to Knit the City and More'' UK:

References

External links

Whodunnknit website

Knit the City website

Stitch London website

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{{DEFAULTSORT:OFarrell, Lauren 21st-century English non-fiction writers 21st-century English women artists 1977 births Living people Writers from Cheltenham British people in knitting Artists from Cheltenham