Greenport Library Gets 'Yarn Bombed'

Before opening the doors of in Greenport Tuesday morning, library director Lisa Richland noticed that a multi-colored knitted "leg-warmer" had been sewn onto the pole of the library's handicap parking sign outside.

"It just appeared overnight," she said. "Apparently it's something they do in Scandinavia."

According to this link, the practice of knitted graffiti began in 2005 by a group of artists in Houston, Texas who call themselves Knitta Please. They wrap street-side objects such as parking sign poles, lampposts and parking meters in cloth made of yarn to make street art "a little more warm and fuzzy," they say.

Richland said she still does not know the identity of this particular yarn bomber.