City knitting: an urban craft phenomenon – in pictures

Alien life-forms pile from an abandoned barracks at Wendover Air Force Base in Utah Photograph: Carol Hummel A knitted snail on the run somewhere in the UK ... Photograph: CrochetNinja Strange fruit hanging from a southern tree as part of the I Knit Brisbane project in Australia Photograph: Datosphere Photography Photograph: Thomas 8030617903/Datosphere Photography Imagine the size of the cat ... huge balls of wool, also in Brisbane Photograph: Datosphere Photography Photograph: Thomas 8030617903/Datosphere Photography These statues at the Denver Centre for the Performing Arts in Colorado are now sporting the latest knitwear – all thanks to the Ladies Fancywork Society Photograph: Ladies Fancywork Society 'Moove over, you're in my limelight' – another LSF creation sees this cow keep out the cold with some new couture Photograph: Ladies Fancywork Society A yarnbombed mooring ring in Stockholm. Was there a woolly boat roped to it? Photograph: Masquerade A swan goes incognito in Sweden Photograph: Masquerade Lifting that manhole cover must be hard work. How about some rainbow sweatbands? Photograph: Masquerade An Indian rickshaw-wallah poses on his pimped new ride Photograph: Carol Hummel