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When Knitting Takes Over the Dining Table

Each year, Design Industries Foundation Fight AIDS (DIFFA) give select designers free reign to create lavish, amazing dining rooms for their signature “Dining by Design” fundraiser tour. This year, the space by the Rockwell Group was a room knit from ceiling to floor. Check out these photos: Knit Dining Room Detail of knit table

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Knit Flowers Supersized

Sure there are a lot of knit and crochet flowers, but probably very few that are anatomically correct models like Tatyana Yanishevsky’s amazing creations. Part sculpture and part science model, her flowers have been featured at children’s museums, galleries, and more.

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Indiana Jones and the Knitter

Did you know that Karen Allen, Harrison Ford’s costar in the new Indiana Jones movie is a knitter? The 56-year-old actress has been a knitter since the age of 5. She now owns her own fiber arts studio in Massachusetts where she designs her own scarves, hats, sweaters and shawls. She teaches knitting at Bard…

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1,000 Knitters Project

1,000 Knitters is a photography project developed by Franklin Habit, a Chicago photographer and knitter. He is in the process of creating individual portraits of 1,000 people knitting the same scarf. Some of them are famous knitters and authors, but most of the photographs are of individual knitters who will ultimately become part of a…

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Seen in the Yarniverse: Knitting the Ones You Love

How far would you go to remember your beloved pets? Some people create elaborate memorials to best give tribute to their best companions. One married couple in England took it one step further, by knitting their pets’ fur into garments. The Cleveland Plain Dealer had readers email their local Dog Lady about the practice with…

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Yarn is Everywhere!

There are billboards all over New York city for a company called Manhattan Storage. They’re always interesting and often provactive. The current ad feature knitting and reads, “Maybe we make storage too easy.” I’ve been wanting to get a photo of one but driving down the Westside Highway at 50 mph. makes that pretty difficult.…

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Sweaters for Chickens

This is for real! Brigitte Hawley, from Benenden, in Kent, England decided to care for gave the four chickens rescued from the Battery Hen Welfare Trust. She knit them sweaters to help them survive the cold winter and called her creations the “chux tux.” In the end, not only was her altruistic deed rewarded by…

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Don’t try this at home

According to this article, doctors are using size 7 crochet hooks in a new surgical procedure to remove varicose veins.

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Seen in the Yarniverse: Creating Recyclable Bags

For some of us (especially New Yorkers), getting 10 plastic bags at a grocery store is not an unusual thing. If you’re doing that every week for a year, you’ve collected a lot of plastic bags. Some of you might not know what to do with all of these excess bags, and some may also…

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The Knitted Mile

The Knitted Mile is a project created by fiber artist, Robyn Love, for the exhibition Gestures of Resistance. The exhibition was held at in Dallas Texas, from February 20th to March 22nd.Robyn worked with fifty volunteers to knit a mile-long yellow stripe that was installed in the center of a road in Dallas. The concept…

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