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Knitting News Archive10-Apr-2008Village Pine Needlers will present history of spinning (Hot Springs Village Voice) Where does yarn come from, and how does fiber get from sheep to shawl? Village Pine Needlers Knitting Guild will find out at its April 17 meeting at 9:30 a.m. in Coronado Center. Four guild members, who also belong to the Hot Springs Village Spinners, will show and tell how yarn is produced. Book buzz: Jhumpa Lahiri makes a jump (USA Today) What has been selling in bookstores the first quarter of 2008? Thanks to Oprah Winfrey's book club, Eckhart Tolle's self-help A New Earth has dominated USA TODAY's Best-Selling Books list. This week it is No. 1 for the ninth consecutive week, creeping up on the consecutive-week mark set by another self-help title, The Secret by Rhonda Byrne: 13 straight weeks at No. 1 in 2007. Air band a rockin' idea (Baltimore Sun) Andrew Litz wants you in his "band." Bulletin Board: A list of events in Palm Beach County (Sun-Sentinel) Today Alice's Bridge Club , 12:30 p.m., Temple Beth Ami, 1401 NW Fourth Ave., Boca Raton. Call 561-843-4344. Festival Guide (RainbowNetwork.com) Get ready to enter the world of festivals - don the wellies and the mac, pitch your tent, mosh, nosh and prepare to get muddy! Guys, too, tend to their knitting (Cape Cod Times) A growing number of men around the country defy the stereotype of knitting as a hobby for old women making unwanted sweaters as holiday gifts. Knitting helps child AIDS sufferers in Africa (Northern Argus) A total of 686 knitted items were taken to the Salvation Army in Gawler last week, to help AIDs suffering children in Africa. Julie Gibson along with 16 other knitters spent most of their summer knitting jumpers, hats, socks and dolls for young babies in Africa. Knitting loom among 17 new patents (Deseret Morning News) ? Cinch. Brett L. Siddoway, Hooper. Filed Dec. 27, 2005, a divisional of Patent No. 6,993,893, filed Feb. 27, 2003. Patent No. 7,340,873. ? Method and device for vibration control. 'Purls' of wisdom (The Journal Pioneer) After 100 years, it's not surprising the Knitting needles don't clack quite as deftly as they used to.
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