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Knitting News Archive20-Apr-2008Senior 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. MyVillage > (My Village Notting Hill) Where am I? > Until 31/12/2008 With DJ Derek, a favourite of Glastonbury and Womad.... more details Until 31/12/2008 Knitting group.... more details Until 31/12/2008 New bass-driven Monday featuring a veritable line up of those hearing and playing the radio waves of tomorrow. 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 Church puts aside hymnals for weekend, tackles community projects (The Sacramento Bee) Members of Sacramento's Faith Presbyterian Church found religion Saturday in knitting and crocheting, baking and boiling, weeding and planting. Organizers Claire Pisor, center standing, and Amy Bundock, right, oversee the production Saturday of knitted blankets for the Children's Receiving Home. "If we're giving to children, there's nothing more comforting than a warm blanket," Bundock ... 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. Girls-only getaways leave the boys behind (Seattle Times) Girlfriends' getaways ? where women travel with other women and leave the menfolk home ? are booming. And the phenomenon is... Knitting trends include shawls, felting (Rochester Democrat and Chronicle) Shawls, alpaca yarns, embellishments and felting are hot this year in knit and crochet trends.
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