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Knitting News Archive18-Apr-2008Knitting in the Navy (Appeal-Democrat) They knit backstage before their concert Wednesday night at Marysville Community Auditorium. Stothoff says Knitting is a hobby many in the group have picked up while on tour. USA TODAY BEST-SELLERS (AP via Yahoo! News) Key: F-Fiction; NF-Nonfiction; H-Hardcover; P-Paperback Did pope approve of American mass? (Chicago Tribune) Attracting the alpha mom (Fortune Small Business via Yahoo! Finance) Laura Zander has big plans for her little knitting-supply business. "We want to be a household name," she says. "Every knitter should know about us." It's not the kind of huge ambition she expected to have again when she fled San Francisco in 2001 after the dot-com bust. Where the girls are going on getaways (Philadelphia Daily News) Here are some of the types of trips women are taking. SPECIAL INTEREST: Some women's travel companies offer niche trips focusing on wine-tasting, running or even knitting. Sally Black, founder of StitchAwayTours, does knitting trips to places like Scotland and London. Knitters visit sheep farms, yarn shops and yarn factories. "Knitting has such a great history to it," said Black. "There's so ... PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BEST-SELLERS (AP via Yahoo! News) 1. "Where Are You Now?" by Mary Higgins Clark (Simon & Schuster) Pop and Rock Listings (New York Times) POP. Senior women help make prayer shawls for needy (McKinney Messenger) Sue Wagstaff had been on a 40-year hiatus from knitting when she rediscovered the craft in the most unconventional way. ?I was reading mystery books about knitting,? Wagstaff said. Driving and knitting (The Trucker) A policeman spots a woman driving and Knitting at the same time. Driving up beside her, he shouts out the window... "Pull over!" "No," she shouts back, "a pair of socks!"
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