Questioned by Police for Knitting... Re-Blog

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gregory-patrick/knitting-ninja_b_4143644.html

Cute article. I usually get questions when I am knitting in public, I can imagine this guy gets a lot of strange looks too. Enjoy

Knit Yourself a Boyfriend or Husband!

Sometimes I get sent the weirdest things because they are related to knitting. Here is a woman who knitted a life sized man as part of her university design class. He is a cushion with a story!

Read more and see the cute video here.

From TechHive: Pi Day Knitting

Every once in awhile I have to re-blog geeky, weird or fun knitting ideas that I find on the internet. This one is definitely in the geek category!

Please enjoy this post. . . and happy knitting!

Knitting a pi blanket is a great way celebrate Pi Day | TechHive:

'via Blog this'

Don't needle prisoners over this yarn via Taranaki Daily News

Dateline New Zealand

Don't needle prisoners over this yarn - oddstuff | Stuff.co.nz:

Needles might be a taboo topic in most jails, but not at the New Plymouth prison.

For the last six months the prison's harmony unit has taken up working with yarn and needles to knit beanies and other items.

To everyone's surprise the initiative has been a success with up to 16 prisoners taking part.

The items they created, under the guidance of Prisoners' Aid and Rehabilitation Society Taranaki president Barbara Sarjeant, were yesterday donated to Women's Refuge.

Acting prison manager Ngaire Knowles said the idea came out of a brain-storming session and she was pleased it had been embraced.

"I think they have appreciated they have learnt a new skill that they can take back to their families."

Prisoners in the unit were able to knit during unlock hours and some were even allowed to do it in their cells, Ms Knowles said.

One member of the group, in his 50s, said he was stunned by the results.

"It is quite productive," the prisoner, who could not be identified, told the Taranaki Daily News.

"It is not a guy thing. It is not something that many blokes would do on the outside."

He was taught to knit by his mother when he was nine and off school but he was not sure it would catch on in jail.

"No, I didn't. I still laugh at how well it's gone."

Being involved in the group had helped prisoners bond and develop skills besides their needle work.

"We all get on really well, knitting has played a big part in that. It helps others to communicate, whereas otherwise they might not have," he said.

He said the group discussed all of the usual topics when they were together.

"Fishing, hunting and cars. We are real blokes but we knit."

Mrs Sarjeant said she was sceptical about the idea when it was first mooted.

"When it was first broached to me six months ago, my reaction was you have got to be joking," she said.

The group was now thriving and Mrs Sarjeant said she couldn't be more pleased. "I'm delighted, I really am. This is good stuff," she said showing off items they had made.

Women's Refuge manager Janice Jessiman was impressed with the group's work. "I think it is great. They are giving something positive back to a community that they may have hurt in the past."

Quilt Car

First knitted royals -- now a quilted car? Am I such a traditionalist that this surprises me?

Not this car quilt but a quilted car.

It's a work of art quilt car - Niagara Falls Review - Ontario, CA: "This quilt car doesn't get many miles to the gallon, but the ladies who put it all together, couldn't care less.

It's getting them plenty of attention and questions from viewers and that's what counts. It gives them the perfect opportunity to talk about their organization and upcoming quilt show."

Go ahead, just don't make me mad while I'm knitting.

Woman stabbed by knitting needles walks into hospital: "A woman who had been stabbed with one, and possibly two, knitting needles wandered into UPMC Presbyterian Wednesday night before collapsing, Pittsburgh police said."

I remember when 9/11 happened, I was knitting a lot and I had a cross country flight scheduled for a couple months later. My biggest fear was that the TSA would take my knitting needles away from me along with the attached half-completed socks. I went out and bought my first set of bamboo needles just so they would not show up on the x-ray machine. Knitters are often thought of as mild-mannered little, old ladies. I guess this article proves that not all knitters are mild-mannered!