Why Do YOU Knit??

This afternoon I read a little blog article about the reasons why the blogger knits. That got me to wondering why anyone knits, when it’s easier, faster, cheaper, etc. just to buy knitted stuff. Well, I know why I knit. It’s fun. Relaxing. Creative. Satisfying. Meditative. Productive. Beautiful. Peaceful. Colorful. Cozy.

So why do you knit? [...]

Knitting News: Elementary School Curriculum

For years now, schools across America have had to cut such valuable subjects as Home Ec (frequently called Consumer and Family Science, la di da) in favor of spending more time on the basics. Well, as a psychologist I know that there are countless ways to learn and strengthen the basic skills, so this morning [...]

Don’t Knock the Knitters! (follow up to the knitter on the plane)

The author of the by now infamous travel article complaining about a knitter on a jet flight has felt compelled to respond to the howls she’s been targeted with by the knitting world. Her rejoinder is very witty in a punnish sort of way.
NOTE:  The response from the knitting community to a Travel column about [...]

Knitting News: Knitting Passenger Makes Flight “Unbearable”

Hmmm. Wonder how she heard all those little clicks over the sound of the jet engines…..
Excerpts from the New Jersey online edition of The Record:
“I wriggled away from our common armrest to make room as she bent over and rummaged in her cavernous carry-on. But what she eventually retrieved demanded closer inspection. Were they …? [...]

A Few Thoughts about Knitted Hitler

For the past few days, there have been comments flying around the knitting net about Knitler and other dolls representing various dictators and tyrants of the world. Most people express a sense of outrage that anyone would do such a thing. Some people, far fewer,  see humor in it.
This controversy reminds me of a previous [...]

Knitted Hitler: Knitler, that Knazi!

Uh oh. He’s baaack! First in wax at Madame Tussaud’s and now in wool. That’s what I call subversive knitting. Read all about it in Telegraph.uk.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2310454/Adolf-Hitler,-Saddam-Hussein-and-Pol-Pot-recreated-in-knitting.html

additional thoughts on this issue:
http://danceswithwool.wordpress.com/2008/07/29/a-few-thoughts-about-knitted-hitler/