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WWW: Banned from the Library?; Ricefield Collective Project launch; Knitting and Music Festival 21 Aug 2013 | 07:50 pm
Supporting her family and her chosen lifestyle through craft. Following up on a story from a few months ago: The Ricefield Collective website is up and running, and hand-knit hat and cowls are availa...
WWW: The Computational Model of Knitting; Ontario’s First Mobile Yarn Shop; Knit the Bridge Complete! 14 Aug 2013 | 07:48 pm
Absolutely fascinating: the Computational Model of Knitting. The wiki K2G2, – “krafty knerds and geek girls” – has a marvellous series of posts about “Computational Craft”. The posts examine knitting ...
WWW: Extraordinary yarnbombings, Clever Girls on Switch-Boards, Yarny Magazine Covers 7 Aug 2013 | 07:00 pm
Yes, that is life-size. An actual train. Ok, I know it’s not knitting, but it’s a big enough project that it’s worthy of mention: Yarn-bomber extraordinaire Olek has crocheted an entire four-car loco...
Jillian’s Spinning: Who’s Going to Rhinebeck? 6 Aug 2013 | 06:34 pm
Maybe it’s because the weather where I live is unusually cool for August – it was 73 yesterday. But I feel fall coming. To a lot of spinners the event that makes our hearts beat faster in the fall is...
WWW: Help Build indigodragonfly’s Studio; The Sweater Curse Onstage; Late-starting 102-year-old Knitter 31 Jul 2013 | 06:52 pm
Friend of Knitty and yarn dyer to the stars, indigodragonfly, has launched an indiegogo campaign to help them raise the $10,000 needed to build a yarn dying studio. They currently work in the kitchen ...
Jillian’s Spinning: Sometimes I Just Have to Slow Down 30 Jul 2013 | 08:45 pm
What I’m thinking about On a recent afternoon my Hansen miniSpinner stopped working. My heart stopped working too. I was rushing some yarn trying to ply as fast as I could – all of the knobs turned t...
Stitch Maps 29 Jul 2013 | 07:35 pm
I wrote about this briefly in a recent WWW post. Tech editor and author extraordinaire JC Briar has recently launched a revolutionary new charting tool – Stitch Maps. JC has been thinking about char...
WWW: Gifts for Royal Babies, Life Lessons, Make Your Own Point Protectors 24 Jul 2013 | 07:58 pm
Nicely put: author Holly Robinson compares the process of writing a book to knitting. NBC Today presenter Natalie Morales is caught knitting while waiting outside the hospital for news of the royal b...
Jillian’s Spinning: A Spinner’s Beach Read: The Field Guide to Fleece 23 Jul 2013 | 06:50 pm
It’s bigger than a smart phone and smaller than an e-reader, The Field Guide to Fleece by Deb Robson and Carol Ekarius is a just-the-facts-ma’am version of The Fleece and Fiber Sourcebook, and it’s co...
All about Tom Bihn, with a lot of little videos…and a contest! 18 Jul 2013 | 09:18 pm
When I was asked by the people at Tom Bihn (they make some of our very favorite bags ever) if I wanted to collaborate on new products, I said “Sure! Let’s Skype!” They had a better idea. They flew me...
