Amazing Cure For Teen Disengagement!

Have you ever sat at the dinner table with a teenager while he or she spent the entire time texting?  It turns out that you might get teens to avoid being slaves to their electronics by teaching them to knit!.  Check out this article about a knitting club at a school in Florida. Related links:…

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Best of Both Worlds: Combining Machine Knitting and Hand Knitting

I tend to have many projects going at any given time, and sometimes I want to “skip to the good part” of a project.  It’s not that I don’t enjoy knitting stockinette stitch–I just want to finish more projects and the simple parts sometimes take a while.  Patty from the Lion Brand Yarn Studio posted…

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This Truck Driver Loves His Knitting!

Kevin and Gretchen Abraham-Banks both drive trucks and both love to knit.  Gretchen taught her husband to knit on Wool-Ease Thick & Quick and now, she says, “I created a monster!.” After we saw an article about a trend of truck drivers who knit during recessionary down times, we contacted them to find out more. …

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