"An adulterated, neglected anti-icon has infected the globe. Lets reclaim its potential as a structure, through individual creativity and local production, through a global community," begins Yuvinia Yuhadi in the 'About' section of her website, The Knitted Chairs.

"You know the chair I’m talking about," she continues, and we do: it's white or sometimes green, rickety, stackable and plastic, and quite destinctive, if you look at it twice, which we rarely do. Chairs like this are found all over the world, creeping into holiday snaps and wedding photos, lurking in basements and garages and doing duty in all sorts of ways.

Turning this emblem of mass production into a unique and handcrafted item is a definite challenge. Yuvinia's blog is devoted to creating unique knitted cosies for these plain chairs, and chronicles her expeditions with her own flock of dressed chairs, as well as showcasing chairs dressed by other crafters.

As knitters, we find the project fascinating and in many ways it's a great symbol of modern creative knitting. Western mod cons like central heating, rain coats and mass production have ousted knitting from its traditional role. Our lives – like plastic chairs – are perfectly servicable without knitting, but risk suffering from a certain bland sameness. One way to break the mold is to pick up sticks and string, get creative and add an extra dimension of colour and cosiness to your chair – or your life!

Sporadically updated, the blog is well worth adding to your list as the creations showcased are varied and interesting.

You might even have a chair or two of your own and whether they're lurking in some forgotten corner or doing sterling duty in all weathers, they could probably do with a fresh look for the new season.

Yuvinia has created two free patterns for chair covers which are available to download from The Knitted Chairs blog.

Links to the patterns are in a grey box on the right hand side. To see the second pattern, click the down arrow at the bottom of the box. Click on the title to start the download, which is a PDF.