Craft Gossip

On three blankets spread over the Plaza of the Americas, 13 knitters, both beginners and experts, wove orange and green yarn into miniature pumpkin-shaped hats.

The Close-Knit Gators, a new charity-based knitting club on campus, held their second weekly meeting Tuesday…

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Lands’ End Invites Customers To Knit A Charity Hat For Chilly Sailors

Lands’ End is calling on customers to grab their knitting needles, cast-on and help sailors cast-off in a cosy new hat.

Sep 17, 2009 – The home shopping clothing specialist has…

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medium_racelogoKelley Petkun of Knit Picks is putting together a team, Knitters for Knockers, for Sept. 20’s Walk for the Cure here in Portland. She’s got details here.

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bg-11Contagious Hope is in need of some people to help volunteer their time and talent to help make toys, clothes, and blankets. All items will be sent to orphangages and local shelters to those in need. Please check out this website for…

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bildeSerendipity Needleworks in Tuscaloosa, AL has come up with a way to use college rivalries to help infants.

The owner, Ellen Johnson, challenges other nearby Yarn Shops to knit and crochet caps for infants. So far this program has netted 3,284…

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logoPick Up Sticks is starting a Knit Along and a Fundraiser.  The Heart Truth is a division of the Heart and Stroke Foundation that raises awareness about women’s heart disease. 
Here are the deets:

We Wear Red Knit Along
Sweater:  February Ladies Sweater
Yarn: …

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knit_chickensKnitch Knitting is offering this new contest: If you think contests are for the birds, this one’s for you!

Pick up Blue Sky Alpacas’ Knit Chickens Pattern and some fabulous Knitch yarn* and let your imagination go free range. Submit as many…

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mittnz_2009_buttonThis year’s challenge goal for Cheyenne River Reservation will be 9 pairs of warm, wooly Mittnz. As always, emphasis is on warmth, so wool, superwash wool and other animal fibers are the fiber of first choice. Blends that are heavily…

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slippersThis free slipper pattern comes to us from the Prayer Shawl Ministries Blog.

Wanting to continue in the Prawer Shawl Knitting but already having more shawls than needed, this blogger came up with the idea of knitting and then fulling slippers…

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vkrosechokerIsn’t this pretty? Just in time for spring!

The Vogue Knitting Rose Choker is a free download, here: http://www.dreamweaveryarns.com/catalog/vogue-knitting-rose-choker-free-pattern-p-2854.html  It’s also available as a crochet pattern.

Knit or crochet the Rose Choker featured in Vogue Knitting Summer 2009 with 1 skein of…

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1Lisa Edelstein, star of the Fox Television hit House, is helping in a campaign geared towards child survival. She is joining in and knitting/crocheting a baby cap and writing letters. This outreach effort is part of the “Knit One, Save…

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Phyllis Schmidt knits a teddy bear. “I’m a little slow this morning, because my hand is a little bit stiff,” said Schmidt. With only a few more rows to finish, “then it’ll be ready for stuffing,” she said….

The children Phyllis…

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Knitting For Charity When Every Stitch is a Battle
How you can keep knitting for charity when knitting is too much trouble! Nellie from www.knittingforcharity.org has some good ideas. Go here to read:
http://www.knittingforcharity.org/knitting_for_charity_when_every_stitch_is_a_battle.html

 

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I ran across KnitNet around the middle of last year. It’s an online knitting magazine, published 6 times a year for a very modest price. You get 5 or 6 patterns in each issue (this current issue has socks, scarves and sweaters),…

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This is a cause that is close to my heart as I have a son who is currently in Iraq. Just saying that makes me cringe, but, yes, it was his choice, there is no draft, and we support him 274%…

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