After all the sad news lately, here’s a little bit of cheer to brighten your day. With a bit of help from the Crafts Council and the UK Hand Knitting Association there’s a new UK initiative to teach craft skills to schoolkids.
From their website:
Knit 1 Pass it On is the start-up pilot project promoted [...]
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Have you seen this article about the homeless shelter in Boston that uses crafts as a therapy? And the article opening to get you clicking over…
If I had to vote for my favorite video of this year, it would have to be the one below because it contains most of my favorite things in the world: grandmothers, thrifting, knitting, charity and awesomeness. There are also motorcycles, which I don’t like, but a lot of people do. They are also “cool.”
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Last week I wrote a post about Jim Simpson, the former WWII POW who knitted a rug with unraveled sweaters and pot handles while being held by the Germans.
Here’s the story of another tough knitter. A knitting badass, if you will.
Photo from article of Nicholas holding up a photo of his x-ray showing [...]
I get a lot of really great emails from people telling me about some of the absolutely brilliant things that people do. Yesterday was no exception when I discovered the story of Jim Simpson, who knitted a rug while a prisoner of war in Germany with unraveled garments, using pot handles as knitting needles.
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