‘Midnight Knitter’ Takes on New Jersey
March 17, 2010

Following in the ill-lit footsteps of unassuming knitting groups-turned-urban-taggers throughout the world, the streets of a small city in New Jersey have recently become embellished with tubular lengths of brightly-colored wool.

Moving towards a period of the season during which snow melts to reveal groundcover looking a lot more moist and dead than full of life, it would appear that the pink, mustard and otherwise rainbow-colored knits that crawl up the length of multiple permanent fixtures in the city would become a welcome development—or at least much more so than the slush and brown grass that does, in fact, legally reside on the public streets of West Cape May.

Residents have dubbed the artist the ‘Midnight Knitter,’ and “The mayor and many residents admit they’re delighted by the woolly rainbow of colours that has popped up,” states Metro.co.uk.

So what’s the problem?

Not only are police carefully looking for clues to the identity, or identities of those that identify with the group’s official website (SaltyKnits.com), but many pieces of flare have also been removed from the group’s main tagging grounds in Wilbraham Park; an act apparently committed by citizens who do not believe in rogue acts of public property improvement, but do believe in confiscating art.