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Knitting News Archive27-Feb-2008Fantasyland With Eyes Wide Open (New York Times) Each fashion show is like an unusually complex piece of 15-minute theater, and typically there are eight every day. Ridgewood Knitters Confront Pattern of Displacement (The New York Observer) The industrial portion of Ridgewood, Queens, south of Myrtle Avenue was the heart of New York?s Knitting industry in its heyday in the 1950?s, but over the past few decades dozens of small mills have buckled against competition from cheaper imports and gone out of business. Until recently, the area remained largely commercial, but lately the last wave of Knitting mills in Ridgewood are being ... The Butterfly Loom of Australia Explores the World Market This 2008 (PRWeb via Yahoo! News) The Butterfly Loom Magic Board - a fun, exciting, easy and irresistible way to produce high-quality fashion and home decor products without applying the complex process of knitting and crochet sets out to offer products worldwide this 2008. The Butterfly Loom of Australia Explores the World Market This 2008 (PRWeb) The Butterfly Loom Magic Board - a fun, exciting, easy and irresistible way to produce high-quality fashion and home decor products without applying the complex process of knitting and crochet sets out to offer products worldwide this 2008. (PRWeb Feb 26, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/02/prweb720444.htm Critic's Corner Wednesday (USA Today) American Masters (PBS, 9 ET/PT, times may vary) launches its 21st season with a profile of singer, songwriter and political activist Pete Seeger. If nothing else, it's a reminder there's a difference between an idol and an artist. (Interview, below.) Put knitting, crocheting talent to good use this winter (Anchorage Daily News) Winter in Alaska offers the average knitter so many opportunities that it's hard to choose. But there is something for almost everyone. Tax rebate awaits area senior citizens (The Intelligencer) But they must file a federal tax return this year in order to qualify for the stimulus checks. Vail Valley kids learn independence through sewing (Vail Daily) EDWARDS, Colorado ? The knitting circle makes perfect sense for a middle school. The students grab their looms and yarn, gather around a couple large tables, and talk. They talk about movies, television, other students, who likes who, whatever. But their hands keep knitting. The joy of knitting: Danville students forgo recess to take part in club (Eagle-Tribune Online) DANVILLE ? Fourth- and fifth-grade girls usually spend recess talking, joking and telling secrets, but a group at Danville Elementary School spends one recess a week with Knitting needles and yarn in hand instead.
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