Stupid knit! Thieves run off with supersize bobble hat

Junction ‘cosy’ created for project to brighten up Leeds city centre missing presumed kidnapped A giant woolly hat, last seen making its way unsteadily across a road in Leeds, is missing presumed kidnapped. Frankly, the hat does not look entirely sober in the CCTV images, now posted on YouTube in the hope of recovering the runaway, as it bashes its pom-pom against a lamp-post before wobbling off into the darkness. Cosy was part of a project by Leeds Met Gallery and Studio Theatre , to brighten up the city’s streets by inviting artists to decorate the boring grey junction boxes that clutter many a pavement. One box has red velvet curtains revealing a stage full of acrobatic rabbits and hares, another appears to be made of inlaid oak and another has become a back-to-back redbrick. The box outside Jamie’s Restaurant on Park Row was decked out in a giant hat, hand-knitted out of electric cable by the Sheffield-based artist and architect Tony Broomhead. Cosy was described as “cheerful, but sadly, despite its glorious pom-pom, unwearable”, but this proved a lie. “It looked really cool before it got nicked,” Broomhead said, sadly. It took him two months to plan and weeks of heavy duty knitting to create. “I said I would never knit again when it was completed, but if it isn’t returned I reckon I will pick up the needles once more. The junction box just looks naked without its cosy.” Maev Kennedy guardian.co.uk

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