Let’s Get This Ball Rolling: An Invitation to Knit

We wanted to enlist your help with a new knitting/political action/ art collaboration WMDcozy। (http://www।wmdcozy।com) WMDcozy is a public collaboration that invites anyone to help design and knit giant cozies for real weapons of mass destruction. The brainchild of artist Tracey Cockrell and writer M. C. Boyes, WMDcozy is an effort to create constructive conversations about government-sanctioned violence using knitting and art as tools to literally put weapons to bed.

The first WMDcozy is designed to fit a single ICBM Peacekeeper, the last of which was fully decommissioned on September 19, 2005. The Peacekeeper was part of a land-based intercontinental ballistic missile array designed for nuclear weapons delivery and deployed by the United States starting in 1986. At a modest 71 ft 6 in (21.8 m) in length and 7 ft 7 in (2.3 m) in diameter, the Peacekeeper requires a mighty big cozy!

We are looking for knitters to, well, knit squares for this, and artists (even bad ones--especially bad ones and children) to contribute to the design of the cozy, which we will convert into a knitting pattern and post on the Commit to Knit pattern section of our website for some lucky knitter to work on. If you could help us by visiting the site, listing us on yours or simply passing the information on, we would be grateful. (BTW, this is a collaborative DYI/art/action project and involves no profit motive.)

Best,

M. Boyes and Tracey Cockrell