Knitting News

First and foremost, the Rose City Yarn Crawl is hiring! They're looking for a photographer, someone to create an ebook, a webmaster and a social media director .

The Cystic Fibrosis Trust has teamed up with trampolining firm Super Tramp to raise money and wants youngsters to knitleg warmers which can then be sold.

Friday The Carrollwood Cultural Center will be giving tours to parents and guardians interested in enrolliong their children in The Enchanted Kingdom of the Arts Summer Camp.

If you've been itching to take a walk on the rebellious side of crafting without fear of arrest, you might get your chance this summer in Lowell, where art lovers are inviting us to yarn bomb their town.

Knit and Natter club members, from left, Margaret O'Kane, Mary C. Henry, Eileen McGilligan and Rose McLaughlin, pictured at Dungiven Library on Tuesday.

According to the Journal Gazette-Times Courier on May 16, the town of Casey, Ill.

KNIT/CROCHET CLASSES: Michaels, 4717 S. Padre Island Drive, will host the following classes with instructor Margaret Neu.

A Knitting Club, run by retired teacher Claire Biggs once a week at Hugh Sexey Middle School, has become very popular with pupils.

There may be nothing so analog as working with yarn - stitching and looping fibers by hand to create an interlocked network of fiber.

What: The Fiber Arts Celebration will offer family-friendly fun with live animals, demonstrations of spinning, knitting felting and hands-on craft opportunities.

Betty Diamond lives up to the name of her new Monroe store. She keeps all her customers "In Stitches" by providing classes and supplies for knitting, crochet and many other types of needlework.

Over the coming months 'Make with Mabel' will be hosting an increasing range of courses aimed at everyone from beginners to those wishing to brush up on their skills.

Find a collection of free knitting technique tutorials, including provisional cast-on, twisted stitches, grafting in stockinette and garter stitch, and more, on leethalknits.com 's newly improved and updated tutorials section! Lee has also made her first knitting how-to video, on cabling without a cable needle, showing many different stitch counts ... (more)

WHEN Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge's baby is born in July, the world will be waiting for the first picture to appear and the name to be announced.

Knitting and crocheting may not strike you as the coolest way to spend your evenings - but you'd be wrong! The wool based projects are enjoying a revival and now they are not just the preserve of elderly women.

Knit more for less!! Knit & Pearls is announcing their Spring Fling Yarn, Pattern and Sample Sale.

Shortly after The Archer School for Girls continued the annual Brentwood Village tradition to erect its Maypole , the Artemis statue on the campus front lawn got yarnbombed by a band of knit wits.

In her mid-twenties, Mimi Jung quit her job as a graphic designer to start her own creative studio under the name Brook&Lyn . Her bold, distinct jewelry gained near instant acclaim in the fashion world.

On Saturday, I told you I was swatching A Hint of Lace, a sweater designed by Deborah Newton, which is on the cover of the current issue of Creative Knitting magazine.

However, the true meaning of guerilla knitting is a little more like graffiti, involving one or more people working hard to knit and crochet a piece and then taking that work and presenting it in a public space - by wrapping poles, trees, benches and even utes - as seen in Forbes last week.