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In honor of Fashion Week, KnittaPlease installed some of their crafty graffiti outside of the Standard Hotel. The knit pieces will remain there until the 17th, but when we first heard about this project we were sort of hoping Magda Sayeg would be knitting coverups for the hotel's naked guests. Perhaps the Standard should make good with the Bears and adorn the entrance with leather and whips for their upcoming (and possibly canceled) street fair.

Though not as impressive as this one, Lost City spotted a massive knitting project on West 37th Street last night. The car cozy was allegedly "a patchwork of separate pieces of knitting" that were made to fit snuggly around the car, as part of a Chashama exhibit that's running through the weekend. Countdown to a knitted bike cozy craze?

NYC shop Moss has a sort of creepy novelty idea for those in search of the perfect "too soon" gift: Gone But Not Forgotten finger puppets. The commemorative set includes knit versions of six well known names that died this year: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Jesse Helms, Maharishi Maresh Yogi, Yves Saint Laurent, Charlton Heston and Heath Ledger. The puppets portraying those who have passed on will go for 90 bucks, but there are some glaring omissions from the chosen ones...George Carlin, Roy Scheider and Paul Newman, to name a few. [via NewYorkology]