How the humble yarn spun its way through social revolution

The Sleep Blanket tracks his son’s sleep patterns from birth to his first birthday.

I alluded some mini skein madness in my post about my scrappy memory blanket. Well I have been working steadily on my both my health and fitness after PB. I mean breastfeeding can only burn so many…

Correctional Services has discovered, during a raid at Leeuwkop Prison in Johannesburg, that an inmate was making prison warders' uniforms in his cell.

Here are free simple knitting patterns. These projects are quick and easy so you can produce a finished item fast. Enjoy!

In this professor's class, there are no calculators. Instead, students learn advanced math by drawing pictures, playing with beach balls—and knitting

Ordinarily, programming an industrial knitting machine to knit a certain type of item is quite a complex process. As a result, they're generally not used to create one-offs. That could change, though, thanks to new software that tells them how to knit custom 3D objects.

Gilles Chiasson knows all too well what it’s like to live on the streets of Montreal, fighting off frigid temperatures and feelings of social disconnection as people bustle about their busy lives around him, hardly sparing a glance. While it has been many years since he last slept on a sidewalk, Chiasson hasn’t forgotten the icy loneliness. Now he is looking to reach out to the homeless people of Montreal, offering warmth for both the body and the heart.

Recent marches such as the Women’s March on Jan. 21 and March for Science have lured newcomers to a symbol of activism that dates back hundreds of years.

One year after Ferguson protests sparked renewed focus on policing in the US, the women of The Yarn Mission continue dialogue about race and social justice. By Sarah Kendzior. (Aug. 6, 2015)

There's a 90-year-old great-grandmother knitting hats for newborns at Hillcrest Hospital and most new mothers have no idea where the hats even came from. Barbara Lowe has been knitting caps for the last eight years. "I'm thinking back that the babies who got the hats that are gonna be 8 years old this year and I'm like oh my gosh, where's the time going?" she said. She can tell you exactly how many hats she's made with her own two hands.

Elephants in India are sporting colourful woollen jumpers after villagers knitted the super-size garments to protect the animals from near-freezing temperatures. Women in a village near the Wildlife SOS Elephant Conservation and Care Centre in the northern city of Mathura reportedly began producing the colourful, pyjama-like garments after staff at the centre warned temperatures were approaching sub-zero at night.

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Textile artist Magda Sayeg transforms urban landscapes into her own playground by decorating everyday objects with colorful knit and crochet works. These warm, fuzzy "yarn bombs" started small, with stop sign poles and fire hydrants in Sayeg's hometown, but soon people found a connection to the craft and spread it across the world.

Using yarn and two pointy needles (knitting) or one narrow hook (crochet), pretty much anyone can stitch up a piece of fabric. Or, you can take the whole yarncraft thing light-years further to illustrate a slew of mathematical principles.

A British grandmother locked in a public restroom for four days said she kept warm using a hand dryer and passed the time by knitting a scarf. Gladys Phillips, 82, said she was out shopping in Felixstowe, England, when she made a pit stop in a public restroom that she didn't realize was not yet open to the public.

While working on my latest knitting project, I saw my ball of yarn getting closer and closer to ending. How can we fix this? Let me show you!

Learn the simple process of how to wind a center pull ball of yarn on an heirloom tool - the nostepinne.

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For everyone who likes a good yarn.