Knitting

LOOK: Happy World Wide Knit In Public Week!

The Huffington Post | Michelle Manetti | Posted 06.10.2013 | HuffPost Home

It's World Wide Knit In Public week and Rep. Gwen Moore is getting in on all the action. The Wisconsin congresswoman posted a photo of herself knit...

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Sean's Gift: Finding Hope In Unexpected Ways After the Loss of My Son

Marie LaPersonerie | Posted 05.14.2013 | Good News

Read More: Knitting, Long Island, Organ Donors, New York Organ Donor Network, Organ Transplant, Grief, Organ Donation, Dealing With Grief, Organ Transplants, Ptsd, Veterans, Good News News

Nothing can prepare you for the loss of a child, which is why I never would have guessed that allowing my son's organs to be donated, and thus, letting him live on through the lives of total strangers, would provide the comfort to get through my toughest days.

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What My Mother Failed to Teach Me

Lita Smith-Mines | Posted 05.09.2013 | Women

Read More: Knitting, Crafts, Teaching, Mother's Day, Mothers, Mothers and Daughters, Mother's Day 2013, Learning to Knit, Losing Mom, Women News

Needles were useless in my hands back then, but now, they are a connection to my mother that will never unravel.

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Eddie Redmayne Was Doing WHAT Before Les Mis?

The Huffington Post | Shana Ecker | Posted 03.01.2013 | HuffPost Home

He and Ryan Gossling have more than being hot in common.

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LOOK: Well This Is A 'Die Hard' Fan

The Huffington Post | Shana Ecker | Posted 01.18.2013 | HuffPost Home

Guess how many weeks--and stitches--this took her.

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Ryan Gosling Reveals An Unlikely New Talent

The Huffington Post | Michelle Manetti | Posted 03.01.2013 | HuffPost Home

Now we know he is perfect.

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Amazing Gift Ideas That Will Rock Their World

CJ Arabia | Posted 02.19.2013 | Style

Read More: Knitting, Birthday Gifts, Fashion, Netfix, Board Games, Movies, Holiday Gifts, Style News

I'm going to give you some amazing gift ideas that I can personally vouch for because I actually own each of these items! These items are perfect for Christmas, Hanukkah, birthays, anniversaries or just about any other gift giving occasion you can think of. Check it out!

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Fiber Arts Shine As Public Art

Hilary Harkness | Posted 02.16.2013 | TED Weekends

Read More: Knitting, Public Art, Imagination Innovation, Crochet, Feminist Art, Mathematics, Fiber Arts, Feminism, Geometry, Coral Reefs, TED Weekends News

Making things out of yarn used to be the realm of grannies, but fiber arts have evolved in the past few decades into a cutting-edge discipline.

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Republicans Are Not Bird Killers

Mara Menachem | Posted 10.10.2012 | Politics

Read More: Knitting, Miami, Kids and Politics, Sesame Street, Mara Menachem, Mitt Romney, Republicans, Nra, Teaching Kids Lessons, Hautedropoff, Politics News

It has been said your own children teach you the greatest lessons. I agree. My sons teach me something new daily. In fact, my son Neal attempted to...

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40 Is Not the New Anything

Susan Deily-Swearingen | Posted 09.23.2012 | Home

Read More: Harriet Beecher Stowe, John F. Kennedy, Billy Crystal, Aging, Bowling, Obama, Thirty, Birthday, Life, W. Somerset Maugham, Knitting, John Glenn, Rodney Dangerfield, Forty, Muchael Buble, Meg Ryan, 40th Birthday, 40, Home News

I want my age to be my age. I've never been here before and I want to see what it's all about.

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Magical Crocheted Sea Jellies

Posted 06.22.2012 | Arts

Read More: Knitting, Jellyfish, Arline Fisch Sea Jellies, Video, Monterey Acquarium, Crafts, Monterey Museum of Art, Art in America, Aquarium, Crochet, Arline Fisch, Sea Jellies, Female Artists, Slidepollajax, Arts News

Few natural creatures have the ethereal grace of sea jellies, which float with weightless ease and an otherworldly glow. Those gelatinous bells that b...

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Knitting Olympics Incurs The Wrath Of That Other Olympics

Posted 10.11.2012 | HuffPost Home

Read More: Knitting, Knitting Wars, Olympics Trademark, Knitting Olympics, Ravelympics, Olympics, HuffPost Home News

Call it extreme trademark protection. For decades, McDonald's waged a legal battle against a family restaurant in Illinois called McDonald's Famil...

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Bizarre Crochet Portraits

Posted 06.01.2012 | Arts

Read More: Knitting, Jo Hamilton, Video, Alice Neel, Slideexpand, Art in America, Jo Hamilton Art, Crochet, Craft, Female Artists, Portland, Pierre Bonnard, Henri Matisse, Arts News

Personally, we're impressed when people can crochet a scarf. So when we stumbled upon Jo Hamilton's detailed crochet portraits we immediately fell in ...

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Knitting Behind Bars

Bus 52 | Posted 07.21.2012 | Good News

Read More: Video, Knitting Behind Bars, Knitting, Jessup Pre-Release Unit, Bus 52, Prison, Prisoners, Maryland, Jail, Jessup Maryland, Prison Therapy, Good News News

As students and teachers settle into the quiet hum of the knitting circle, a cloud of relaxed calm falls across the group. Lynn and Sheila's knitting class is like many others across the country. Except theirs takes place in prison and their students are inmates.

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WATCH: Could You Live Where You Work?

The Huffington Post | Diana N. Nguyen | Posted 10.11.2012 | HuffPost Home

Read More: Yokoo Gibraan, Etsy Shop, Designer Yokoo, Knitting, Etsy, Etsy Shop Tour, Video, Etsy Video, Studio Tour, Yokoo Etsy, Hand Made, Yokoo Etsy Shop, Knitting Yarn, HuffPost Home News

It's a special thing to do what you love. And, for Etsy seller and accessory designer Yokoo Gibraan, she can't imagine doing anything else outside of ...

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A Knitting Cruise

Susan Fogwell | Posted 06.09.2012 | Travel

Read More: Sailing, Travel, Knitting, Maine, Vacation, Adventure, Rockland, Slidepollajax, JE Riggin, Travel News

On each sailing trip, 24 knitters gather on the 120-foot, two-masted schooner.

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When Yarn Attacks!

Posted 01.25.2012 | Arts

Read More: Knitting, Yarn Art, Polish Artists, Video, Crochet Art, Street Art, Crochet, Female Artists, Crochet Graffiti, Olek, UK Arts, Tony's Gallery, Arts News

Many people who take up crocheting do so not entirely for the product but for the process, the smooth rhythm of loop after loop, knot after knot, cont...

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Artist Unveils Entirely Knitted Hotel Room (PHOTOS)

The Huffington Post | Tara Kelly | Posted 11.30.2011 | Travel

At the Hotel Pelirocco in the English seaside town of Brighton, guests can cozy up in an entirely knitted room. Dubbed "Do Knit Disturb", the sing...

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Because I'm Addicted: Learn How To Knit

becauseimaddicted.net | Posted 10.11.2012 | Style

Read More: Knitting, Video, Fashion, Because Im Addicted, How to Knit, Style News

From Because I'm Addicted Years ago my grandma gave me knitting lessons and it was one of the best gifts I've ever received. With the economy in th...

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PHOTO: How To Turn Down A Guy Without Ruining The Mood

Posted 08.01.2011 | Comedy

Read More: Knitting, Funny Titles, Not Tonight Darling I'm Knitting, Funny Pictures, Romance, Books, Self Help Books, Dating, Urlesque, Pictures, Advice, Comedy News

We've all been there: It's not that you don't want to hang out with your chiseled, model boyfriend, it's that you're SO CLOSE to finishing this scarf ...

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Forgotten Women: Knitters and the National Women's Hall of Fame

Gerit Quealy | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living

We're all a circle of knitters -- whether it be knitters of words into ideas, knitters of communities, knitters of families -- all forming the fabric of a society in flux, and weaving together our shared history.

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Helping Others With A Hobby: Knitting Group Makes Hats For Homeless Kids

Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact

Read More: Knitting, Knit for Charity, Homeless Children, Homelessness, Donating to Charity, Homeless, Donations, Helping the Homeless, Impact News

(CBS) WENATCHEE, Wash. - In the close-knit community of Wenatchee, Washington Aida Bound has found joy in knitting. But the 73-year-old social worker ...

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Interwoven With Prayer: Learning To Knit And Give Thanks

Cathleen Falsani | Posted 05.25.2011 | Religion

Read More: Create, Knitting, Prayer, Creator, Weaving, Faith, Knitting as Meditation, Knitting and Prayer, Crafts and Prayer, Learning to Knit, Religion News

As I understand it, our hands are supposed to be God's hands in the world. The works of our hands are marked by the fingerprints of the Divine. They are artifacts of God's love. I yearn to create, to make something beautiful with my hands.

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Heartless About The Homeless

Lita Smith-Mines | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living

Read More: Knitting, Job Losses, Mortgage Lenders, Ny Mets, Homelessness, Economic Recession, New York Homeless Families, New-York-Housing, Housing Crisis, Home Foreclosures, Healthy Living News

I am firmly convinced that until the rest of us adopt a "we're in this together" attitude and press our elected officials to slow down foreclosures and speed up hiring, home values will keep falling and businesses will keep failing.

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The True Cost of Cheap Cashmere

Susan Gibbs | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

Read More: Knitting, Yarn, Cashmere, Cashmere Goat, Cashmere Yarn, Chinese Cashmere, Green News

The Chinese have drastically brought the cost of cashmere down by grazing far too many animals on far too little land. The result? The desertification of hundreds of thousands of acres of pasture.

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