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Knitting News Archive07-May-2008Shima Seiki Shares Fall After Profit Misses Full-Year Forecast (Bloomberg.com) May 7 (Bloomberg) -- Shima Seiki Manufacturing Ltd. , a Japanese maker of Knitting machines, fell the most in more than eight years in Osaka trading after its profit missed the forecast and its rating was cut to ``neutral'' at Nomura Securities Co. Wake Forest professor's film to air on UNC-TV (Wake Forest University News Service) ?Knitting Lessons,? a documentary film by Mary Dalton, associate professor of communication at Wake Forest University, will air on UNC-TV May 10. 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. 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 ... 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. Still 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. Memories of Mom and the button cup (San Francisco Chronicle) Children attach themselves to teddy bears or a favorite blanket. For me, it was my mother's sewing kit and her tumbler of buttons. When my mother wasn't baking or cooking, she was knitting or mending. This was the 1970s, when women's roles were being... 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 ...
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