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Knitting News Archive23-Dec-2008Grammy Picks Latest Lifetime Achievers (E! Online via Yahoo! News) The Recording Academy is feeling a great deal of amore for its 2009 Lifetime Achievement Grammy recipients. Learning law, and knitting (Pioneer Press) This holiday season, Spencer Christensen is learning what Knitting hats and donating food has to do with his dream of becoming a cop. For U.S. craft sales, the recession is a help (International Herald Tribune) A boom in sales of crafts and related supplies contrasts with poor results for traditional retailers, like electronics retailers and department stores. That?s not reindeer hooves, it?s the sound of happy knitters! (Tavistock Times Gazette) VOLUNTEERS with the Tavistock branch of Operation Sunshine this week said a huge ?thank you? to Times readers who responded to a recent appeal for knitting wool. Knitting grandma in book has real-life counterpart (The Ashland Daily Press) CABLE ? There were blue hats, red hats, yellow hats, purple hats, fancy hats, plain hats, adult hats and kid?s hats. If it sounds like a children?s story, it?s because it was inspired by one. PHOTOS: Tough economic times have gift-givers sewing, knitting and making their own creations (Naples Daily News) Her friends call her ?the Mayor.? Amy Lesniak takes her quilting seriously. And when her hands lead a sewing circle, the veteran nurse can bark orders so fierce, repeating them to outsiders requires the insertion of several ?blanks,? her friend Karen Smith demonstrated. But with a seam-ripper -- what Lesniak calls the most important tool -- in hand, love comes through. Learn to master knitting with a guild membership (Anchorage Daily News) It may seem early to make predictions for the new year, but I can see that 2009 will be a very good year for traditional Knitting and serious knitters. Perhaps you have discovered that you love Knitting and that you enjoy learning about the techniques, fibers and history. Make this the year you join The Knitting Guild Association.
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