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1. Knitting on O'ahu (Honolulu Advertiser) - Yarn and sand. Knitting and the beach. It sounds like an unlikely match, but not for M.K. Carroll. Carroll, 33, lives on the Leeward Coast, where she creates knit and crochet patterns.
2. Women find way to help with Tuesday night knitting group (The Doings Oak Brook) - You don't have to be an expert in needlework to be part of the knitting group at Oak Brook Public Library. In fact, you don't even have to own a pair of needles.
3. Knitting hats for newborns (The Steamboat Pilot & Today) - Gayle Dudley can crank one out in an hour. Barb Tuchlinsky keeps yarn secreted away behind her desk. And newcomer Nicole DeCrette is making “one-of-a-kind” creations.
4. Volunteers knit warm items for local children (The Iowa City Press-Citizen) - Every year since opening The Knitting Shoppe, Edyie Stika has collected caps, scarves and mittens for children in need.
5. Book Review: Natural Knits For Babies & Toddlers by Tina Barrett (Blogcritics.org) - Cute knitting patterns made with all natural, organic fibers. Natural Knits for Babies & Toddlers by Tina Barrett is a collection of over two dozen knitting patterns. All the patterns are knit with all-natural, chemical free fibers: cotton, alpaca, wool, soy silk, hemp, corn fiber, and bamboo. Barrett advocates all-natural fibers (as opposed to acrylics and polyesters) as being easier on ...
6. Locals answer call to help abused women, children (The Mail Tribune) - Close to 400 women and children in the Rogue Valley will be warmer this holiday season because nearly as many locals took up knitting needles to help shatter the cold shoulder and cold winter.
7. Middle-school knitting club gives to good cause (Winona Daily News) - Winona Middle School students know they don’t have to be grown up to love to knit or to appreciate giving to a good cause.
8. Local women create dolls for children in Iraq, Africa (Norwell Mariner) - This group of retired women first met at the Norwell Council on Aging, where their love for knitting and creating dolls has grown from an interesting hobby, to a full on mission. Together, the women have created more than 700 dolls over the past year for needy children around the world. They also donate the dolls to children at the Boston Medical Center...
9. BAYOU: In Jefferson County, knitting is one hobby you'll want to give up (Beaumont Enterprise) - With Beaumont's safety rating sitting somewhere between vicious mugging and drive-by, Jefferson County is taking no chances.
10. Michael Dorf at City Winery on New Year's Eve (New York Press) - Michael Dorf, Knitting Factory founder and all-around New York music boss, has decided to take his taste in experimental music, apply it to his own work and open an experimental venue.