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Knitting News Archive17-Feb-2008Never too old to help out others (Daily Herald) As a knitter, Linnea Larson has completed plenty of loops and chains. The three-year resident at the Atrium, an independent living center in Elgin, has also helped tie people together by forming a Knitting group that has logged 352 volunteer hours last year. Knitting friendship gives meaning and purpose to retirees in ill health (Cadillac News) Although Tressa DeRuiter and Joan Meyers have each suffered ill health and limited mobility, it doesn?t stop them from thinking of the needs of others. Working as a team the two women knit hundreds of hats, some with matching scarves, which they donate to the Salvation Army and Project Christmas. The needles will fly today at speed knitting champions at MOA (Winona Daily News) BLOOMINGTON, Minn. (AP) ? The world?s fastest yarn slingers will gather Saturday at the Mall of America for the world championships in speed knitting and speed crocheting. Author of "The Knitting Circle" used the craft to elucidate a deep grief (Cape Cod Times) Before her daughter died, Ann Hood could not imagine her life without writing. But the prolific author of seven novels, a memoir, a book about writing and a collection of shorts stories suddenly found she could not read or write. 'Knitting with Gigi,' and Karen Thalacker (Newspapers of Fayette County) WEST UNION - Although the title of her book is 'Knitting with Gigi,' Waverly resident Karen Thalacker, loves to knit with just about anyone!
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