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Knitting News Archive14-Nov-2007Broadway Kids Begin Knitting Project for Stage Veterans and Homeless (Playbill) Young performers from Broadway will give back to Broadway veterans and the New York homeless community this winter season as Broadway Kids Care launches "The Knitting Project." AARP to host knitting group, holiday party (Edison Sentinel) The next general meeting of the Edison AARP chapter No. 3446 will be Nov. 19 at 1 p.m. at the Edison Job Corps, 500 Plainfield Ave. The High Steppers group will be performing. Members are asked to bring canned or packaged food and toiletries for the Middlesex Food Bank. Members must be a member of the national AARP and a resident of New Jersey. Homemade warmth sent to help those in need (BG News) Imagine walking into a nursing home and seeing elderly women crocheting or knitting plaid sweaters and scarves for their grandchildren for Christmas stocking stuffers. Now imagine a group of college students crocheting and knitting blankets in their residence halls while watching television and talking with friends. New books on knitting, yarn reveal wisdom of purls (Tacoma News Tribune) It isn?t hard to find cool, contemporary knitting patterns ? pattern publishers have gotten the message that knitting is hip. But knitting reference books, not so much. Most how-to-knit books, while perfectly serviceable, are a little bit stodgy. Fortunately, the tide may be turning: Two new reference books speak to the new generation of knitters in their own language. NYPD DAILY BLOTTER (New York Post) MANHATTAN An East Village man who died of an apparent drug overdose at a Manhattan rock club has been identified, sources said yesterday. Nicholas Phillips, of East Ninth Street, was found unconscious in the bathroom of the Knitting Factory on...
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