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Knitting News Archive06-May-2008Still plenty of knit pickers (Journal Inquirer) (from the left) Catherine Foust, 7, with her sisters, Julia, 8, and Emily, 11, all from Coventry, get help from Priscilla Kessler during their visit to The Knitting Nook in Coventry. Knitting history book author visits Lansing library (The Times of Northwest Indiana) LANSING | Susan Strawn, assistant professor of apparel design and merchandising at Dominican University, will present a slide lecture on the history of American Knitting at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at the Lansing Public Library at 2750 Indiana Ave. Wauconda church helps needy through knitting (Lake County Journals) WAUCONDA - Something as simple as knitting can make a huge difference in someone?s life. Ringo Starr - The Things They Say 8215 (ContactMusic) "I learned to knit in hospital. They give you stuff to do to keep you busy because you're so ill." RINGO STARR on picking up his knitting skills during a long spell in hospital ... Knitted together: Old-fashioned craft is now a fun activity for entire family (Deseret Morning News) Genevieve Arterburn, 9, is knitting. She carefully slides the tip of the big knitting needle through a stitch on her other needle. She wraps the yarn around the needle's tip, uses that tip to draw the yarn through the stitch, then pulls gently on the yarn to make it snug as she slips it off one needle onto the other. Let's hear from you: We're playing the fame game (The Daily News) So, you once dated Michelle Obama. Or, you used to be in a knitting club with Hulk Hogan. Interview: Author Kate Jacobs of Comfort Food , The Friday Night Knitting Club (Blogcritics.org) The author uses metaphor to examine female friendships and family dynamics. Author Kate Jacobs is clearly a metaphorical thinker. Her first novel, the bestselling The Friday Night Knitting Club, used knitting as a metaphor for female friendships. It told the story of the entwined lives of members of a New York knitting club who gathered at single mother Georgia Walker's yarn shop, and used the ... A passionate blogger speaks out (Centre Daily Times) I've had many things throughout my life that I enjoy doing. Acting, dancing, shopping, knitting, keeping up with politics, cooking, the list goes on. I enjoy these things, but I couldn't do them over and over without feeling a sense of wanderlust and looking over at the next fun thing to do. They are enjoyable hobbies, but I'm not laying up at night thinking about them, or doing research about ... Fresh, tasty 'Comfort Food' goes down mighty easily (USA Today) Weeks shy of turning 50, Gus Simpson is tired of being as the self-help books would call her a woman who does too much.
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