Two fantastic videos posted by the BBC in honour of World Wide Knit in Public Day:
Shetland Lace Knitters, filmed in 1964, working at a remarkable pace. Their language is absolutely fascinating, an almost Scandinavian lilt, to my ears. I adored the answer the one knitter gives about how she feels at the end of a long project.
And this gem from 1972:
Lightning fast needle skills from the 1972 International World Knitting Championships #WorldWideKnitInPublicDayhttps://t.co/bCOOpOT7op
— BBC Arts (@bbcarts) June 18, 2016
In life-size-replicas-of-public-figures-made-out-of-yarn news, we have two stories:
A yarn shop in Devon won a competition for their amazing shop window display, featuring a pretty-close-to-life-size figure of the Queen.
And in the US, a crochet model of Bernie Sanders is out on the election trail…
It’s vacation season! Do you have your travel knitting prepared? Some tips from us here at the Knittyblog for travelling with knitting. And check the Knitter’s Review events list to see if there’s anything yarny going on near your destination… or to help you decide on a destination…
Heck, knitting can even help you work through a language barrier, when you’re travelling. On that note, I enjoyed this little vignette from a friend’s trip to Italy….
1/2 Knitting in public apparently NOT common 🙂 But int’l language still led this dear lady to sit next to me: pic.twitter.com/8EGt3RMiPt
— (((Lynne Ski))) (@etcgirlthefirst) June 9, 2016
That dear lady, with no English, was at pains to point out to me, with my phrase-book Italian, that she *also* made all the flowers on her matching handbag. 🙂
It was a really lovely exchange.
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