It’s become too big to contain: the craft movement is busting out onto the streets. Delightful little handmade things keep appearing anonymously in public spaces - preening the mean streets with lace, felt and wool.

The gritty end of Gertrude Street became the pretty end when the magnolia tree outside Cottage Industry dressed in doilies recently. (Then promptly flowered – the only one to do so on the avenue.) The Toy Society is tracking the whereabouts of handmade owls, dolls and ghost fish that have been taped to poles, with finders-keepers messages, nation-wide. And there are reports of people returning to their parked cars to find hand-knitted aerial-warmers have been fitted.

It’s craft for the people, and, it seems, it’s coming to a street near you…