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

Imagine the size of the cat ... huge balls of wool, also in Brisbane
Photograph: 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