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Celebrate World Wide Knit in Public Day (Week)

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are you knitting in public for world wide knit in public day?Though it’s officially called World Wide Knit in Public Day, the event actually spans a week, this year from June 9 through June 22. According to the event’s website, it is the largest knitter-run event in the world (which makes sense, I suppose). The knitting event is dedicated to “better living through stitching together” and it’s all about meeting other people who knit as well as raising awareness of knitting within your community.

People in cities all over the world are hosting their own knit-in-public events, and you can search for an event near you or start your own if you don’t see one listed where you are.

I took part in a local KIP a few years ago at our farmer’s market and it was a lot of fun.

Are you planning to join in? I’d love to know where you’ll be hanging out.

Comments

  1. This sounds super fun! My friends and I knit informally in coffee shops and sometimes even bars in downtown Seattle a couple times a month. Maybe we will organize something for this! Thanks for the information.

  2. We’ll be knitting at the Cherry Hills Library in Albuquerque, NM, from 1 to 3 pm. We meet there weekly from 10 until noon on Tuesdays, but Saturday we’ll be knitting out in the main library. I even got the day off from work so I could go knit! Everybody I tell about it says, “But you always knit in public!”

Have you read?

Book Review: The Wandering Knitter

Knitting and travel are two hobbies that are highly compatible. Travel often involves waiting or time spent on planes, trains, boats, etc., time that can easily be filled by knitting, a portable and productive craft you can do most anywhere (and yes, you can take your knitting on a plane most of the time). 

Krista Ann combines knitting and traveling regularly and ended up visiting every continent in 2022 with her knitting needles along for the ride. The Wandering Knitter explores travel, knitting and learning new knitting skills no matter where you are. 

This isn’t a book for beginners, but if you’ve wanted to learn techniques like brioche, cables, lace, colorwork, mitered squares and short rows, there’s a set of more beginner level patterns followed by ones that are bigger, more detailed or required a little more skill. For example a brioche washcloth is the beginner pattern, while a brioche sweater (with unexplained exceptionally long sleeves) is the stepped up project. A basic mesh lace scarf becomes a more complex lace kerchief. A giant mitered square cowl graduates to a mitered square tote bag. 

Interspersed among the patterns are essays about traveling to different continents and what she saw there. There are also tips for traveling with your knitting and tips for reading charts, but no tutorials for knitting skills (other than a written explanation of how mosaic knitting works). 

Some of the projects would be useful to have when traveling, such as fingerless gloves, a warm headband or a colorwork hat. The travel angle is an interesting hook for a book, but I would have enjoyed essays more about specific incidents or shopping for yarn in a different country or something more than the general essays about things she’s liked and places she’d like to go back to. 

Still, if you’re looking for a skill building book that doesn’t focus on the basics but gives you some wearable, attractive accessories, this book is a good one to check out. Just maybe make the sleeves shorter if you knit the sweater. 

About the book: 128 pages, paperback, 20 patterns. Published 2026 by Quarry Books. Suggested retail price $24.99.