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The Andy Warhol (Seventh Street) Bridge in Pittsburgh, Pa. Image by TheZachMorrisExperience. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.

Knitters cover Pittsburgh’s Andy Warhol Bridge in yarn

Tom Hoepf
Tom Hoepf
The Andy Warhol (Seventh Street) Bridge in Pittsburgh, Pa. Image by TheZachMorrisExperience. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.
The Andy Warhol (Seventh Street) Bridge in Pittsburgh, Pa. Image by TheZachMorrisExperience. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.

PITTSBURGH (AP) – More than 1,800 knitters have covered Pittsburgh’s Andy Warhol Bridge in 3,000 feet of colorful yarn.

Volunteers worked all weekend to attach 580 blanket-size, hand-knitted panels to the pedestrian walkways on the downtown bridge.

The project was organized over the last year by the Fiberarts Guild of Pittsburgh and other local institutions. The group says knitters from more than 80 Pittsburgh neighborhoods and 120 area townships signed up to help.

The guild calls it the nation’s largest “yarn bomb.” The term applies to artists who knit coverings for everyday objects like lampposts, street signs and trees.

A community arts and crafts party will be held at the bridge on Aug. 25. The bridge will be covered in the yarn until Sept. 6.

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The Andy Warhol (Seventh Street) Bridge in Pittsburgh, Pa. Image by TheZachMorrisExperience. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.
The Andy Warhol (Seventh Street) Bridge in Pittsburgh, Pa. Image by TheZachMorrisExperience. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.