In case you haven’t already heard about this one, Vickie Howell, once host of “Knitty Gritty” and all around champion of the fiber arts in any medium she can think of, has launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund a web … Read More ...
Knitting Goes High-Tech with Knit “Muscle” Fabric
Knitting can be used for a lot of purposes other than making a warm hat or a pair of socks. And scientists keep coming up with ways to use knitting in medical procedures or in other cool ways that have … Read More ...
Knitter’s Magazine to Cease Publication
A note from Benjamin Levisay, CEO of XRX, Inc., says that the 32-year-old Knitter’s magazine has ceased publication with its Winter 2016 issue.
The magazine published 125 issues, but Levisay says they have stopped producing it because of financial … Read More ...
Knitting as Protest: The Pussyhat Project
Regardless of your political leanings, I think it’s always cool to see handcrafts used as part of a political statement, and that’s happening in a big way with the Pussyhat Project.
The idea is to outfit as many women … Read More ...
Interweave Unveils New Website, Merger with Patternworks
Interweave, the multi-craft publishing company that’s been a part of F+W since 2012, announced an “updated and reinvigorated” Interweave with the launch of a redesigned website.
At the same time, the company announced a merger with Patternworks, an online fiber … Read More ...
Knitting and Math Combine in Wooly Thoughts
I came across this article from the Guardian recently about a husband and wife who explore math-inspired knitting.
Pat Ashforth and Steve Plummer have made more than 90 math-inspired afghans, as well as other expressions of mathematical ideas in … Read More ...
Check Out This Adorable Knit Video from Sesame Street
Sesame Street always has fun videos that often have a handmade twist, but this new one is of particular interest to knitters.
The video features the song “I Don’t Want to Live on the Moon” sung by Lennon and Maisy, … Read More ...
What Does “Personal Use Only” Mean?
Often when you buy knitting patterns (and sometimes you see it on free knitting patterns, too) you’ll see a statement somewhere on the pattern or website that says the patterns are for personal use only or some variation on that … Read More ...
How Knitting Helps with Digital Overload
I found this article on Slate really interesting, about how the author has used knitting as a way to slow down, to calm her temptation to digitally multitask and to regain some of her joy of reading, albeit through Audiobooks … Read More ...
Kickstarter Aims to Produce Children’s Book about Knit Bear
A reader sent me a post about a children’s book she has written involving Huggable Henry, a little knit bear who helps people who are upset by giving them hugs.
Debbie Trainor, of Knit n Sew Studio, has produced … Read More ...
Tiny, 3,000 Year Old Ball of Yarn Found
The origins of knitting have always been murky because our raw materials are biodegradable. We know that the oldest piece of knitting that has been found is about 3,000 years old, but its sophistication (a sock with intricate colorwork) … Read More ...
Yarn Shop Launches Kickstarter for KnitTV
The Ram Wools Yarn Cooperative in Winnipeg has launched a Kickstarter to raise funding for what it calls KnitTV, which would be an open-source, free collection of knitting and crochet tutorials made with the learner in mind.
The yarn shop … Read More ...
Knitting News: Arm Knitting in GIFs, A Gorgeous Knit Dress and More
Probably the strangest knitting-related news of the week (and this is a week when someone was sentenced to knitting following a road rage incident) is the case of a woman accused of smuggling fake $100 into the United States in … Read More ...
Woman Sentenced to Knitting After Road-Rage Incident (Really)
I usually save the fun or strange knitting news for Fridays, but this one is so good I had to post it right away.
I’m not entirely sure I understand the reports coming out of Dundee (that’s in Scotland), but … Read More ...
Kniterate: Like a 3-D Printer for Knitwear
If you’ve ever used a knitting machine designed for home use you know how laborious it can be. You still have to do a lot of the work by hand, such as ribbing, increasing and decreasing, and of course all … Read More ...