Wear gloves, use old scissors, dispose of scissors and gloves afterwards. Renegade knitters have no mandate to gross you out forever. The cuteness point was made long ago, now it's just a dog urine collector, a pee-mail node which you shouldn't have to tolerate. If we could only remove obnoxious things from the urban landscape if we ourselves put them there, then no one could pick up litter except the litterbug who dropped it. See the logic? Woman up and liberate your bike rack from the odious canine yarn.

pee-mail node! You lovely man!

What @1 said, all the way. Don't like litter? Pick it up yourself! Don't wait for somebody else to come along, because chances are, they're just as lazy and entitled as you are.

Yarn bombing trees is bad for the long-term health of the trees' bark. That's probably why the sweaters are no longer there.

I'm a yarn crafter (I crochet), and I see yarn bombing as a waste of fiber and only slightly less annoying than graffiti. That it takes more time to do is irrelevant.

Cozy and cute, maybe, but my guess is that its probably not healthy for the trees in the long run. I bet the Parks department was instructed to cut them off after a while.

I love the sweaters! Super fun! Yay!

And I think you should take matters into your own hands and remove the bike rack cozy. UGH. Not cute.

They've also spread into Redmond to Anderson Park. However these are tree socks apparently, and it's "art" http://www.king5.com/news/local/Tree-soc…

I see it as a sign that spring is almost here.

I see it as a sign that spring is almost here.

I'm with @1 and 3, but be sure to ask your Mommie first, use safety scissors, and have adult supervision. It's really mean for those things to stop being cute!
@4 where is there any creidible evidence that yarn has harmed a single tree?

The courthouse and Occidental Park tree sweaters were part of a city-sanctioned art installation. I'm sure they were taken down as originally planned.

Yo Paul just as corporations aren't people, neither are trees.

The sweaters were a temporary public art project by Suzanne Tidwell, and she's responsible for the Redmond installation going up today (maybe it will use some of the same segments o'sweater?). According to 4Culture spokeswoman Tina Hoggatt, Tidwell brings them flat to the scene, then sews them around each trunk and branch. To take them down, she just unsews the seams.