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Knitting News Archive19-Apr-2008Senior women help make prayer shawls for needy (McKinney Courier-Gazette) 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. 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. Entertainment In Brief: 04/18/2008 (Traverse City Record-Eagle) Meet the artists in East Jordan; Jazz North plays for dance Saturday; Family movie night at West Shore; Museum gala is this weekend; Percussion show at Grayling High; Make a scarf, no knitting required; NMC Concert Band presents program Peter Gabriel a fan of Radiohead-esque Internet efforts (CNET) Part musician, part technology investor, Peter Gabriel applauded efforts by NIN and Radiohead to use the Internet to distribute music. Residents Of Retirement Community In Farmington Eager To Help Others (Hartford Courant) While they compare stories about times past, their arthritic hands knit blankets for veterans, gloves for underprivileged children and hats for premature babies. Faulty knitting yarn (BellaOnline) Some issues to think about if your knitting yarn should prove to contain a fault. Paperback Trade Fiction (New York Times) 1. THE MEMORY KEEPER?S DAUGHTER, by Kim Edwards 2. NINETEEN MINUTES, by Jodi Picoult 3. WATER FOR ELEPHANTS, by Sara Gruen 4. THE FRIDAY NIGHT KNITTING CLUB, by Kate Jacobs 5. THE KITE RUNNER, by Khaled Hosseini Knitting trends include shawls, felting (Rochester Democrat and Chronicle) Shawls, alpaca yarns, embellishments and felting are hot this year in knit and crochet trends. 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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