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unusual facts about knitting



Askrigg

Askrigg's prosperity peaked in the eighteenth century when trade in textiles and knitting was most lucrative and the village supported many craftsmen and gained a reputation for clockmaking.

Becky Stern

Her work combines traditional crafts like embroidery, knitting & jewelry-making with physical computing technologies like Arduino.

Bergen County Technical High School, Teterboro Campus

Types of projects that students can apply to are: knitting, Physics Olympiad, Garage Band, Radio Lab, Equations, The Sims, Robotics, Earth preservation, Fitness, Teacher, and many more.

Bigoli

In "La vecchia cucina eugubina" they say that this noodle is as thick as a wooden needle for knitting stockings.

Christine Sciulli

A recent collaboration featured her video and light work for the Mabou Mines waterfront piece, “Song for New York: What Women Do While Men Sit Knitting” by Ruth Maleczech, which was developed during her Sundance Institute Theatre Lab Residency at White Oak, Florida.

Debbie Stoller

Stoller has appeared as special guest at the Dutch Stitch 'n Bitch Dag in Rotterdam each year since 2006. She made her debut appearance at a UK knitting show on November 10, 2007 as special guest for I Knit London's UK Stitch 'n Bitch Day 2007 where she hosted a workshop, fashion parade and booklaunch for the fourth in her Stitch 'n BItch book series: Son of Stitch 'n Bitch.

Dhammika Perera

He is in the boards of Amaya Leisure PLC, Haycarb PLC, Hayleys MGT Knitting Mills PLC, The Kingsbury PLC, Dipped Products PLC, Lanka Floortiles PLC and Orit Apparels Lanka (Pvt) Limited.

Dorothy Naum

She participated in several Galesburg All-City Championships, while her other hobbies included bowling, contract bridge, knitting, needlepoint and watching sports, especially the National Basketball Association games.

Economy of Bács-Kiskun

During the privatisation, the Danube Knitting Mill in Baja was acquired by an American financial investment group

Elizabeth Zimmermann

Zimmermann's PBS knitting series is still available on VHS and DVD.

Henry Masauko Blasius Chipembere

She also served in the Ministry of Culture and Education before retiring to Mangochi, where she works with AIDS orphans and a women's knitting cooperative.

Henry Wanyoike

After winning his first gold medal in Sydney, Australia in 2000 at the Paralympic games, he has bought knitting machines through prize money and charitable donations from such international personalities as Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Knitting Factory

In 2007 The Knitting Factory partnered with XM Satellite Radio to record and broadcast concerts from both Knitting Factory locations.

Knitting Guild Association

The Knitting Guild Association's headquarters is in Zanesville, Ohio.

Knitting Needles and Bicycle Bells

Knitting Needles and Bicycle Bells is the debut album of Tenement Halls, the name used by Chris Lopez for his solo work.

Knitting Under the Influence

Knitting Under the Influence is a 2006 novel written by author Claire Scovell LaZebnik about three girls in their late twenties who have a weekly knitting circle, yet, they all have busy individual lives.

Lauren O'Farrell

She is best known for creating the Stitch London craft community and founding graffiti knitting and craft collective Knit the City.

More Live at the Knitting Factory

More Live at the Knitting Factory is a 1993 album by Charles Gayle.

Nathaniel Corah

Born in Barlestone, Leicestershire he trained as a framesmith and first produced garments on a knitting frame on his farm.

Rammellzee

Rammellzee also performed at Knitting Factory with guitarist Buckethead several times.

Rohana Kudus

When her father was assigned to Alahan Panjang, North Sumatra, she asked her Dutch neighbors to teach her household skills such as knitting and weaving.

Slovenes in Somogy

Both in Tarany and in the Rába Region the guest caller is dressed in a robe decorated with knitting.

Songs to No One 1991–1992

#"Mojo Pin" (Duet*; Soundboard Tape; recorded at the Knitting Factory, NY City; 4/18/92) – 5:44

Systems music

A form of systems is the 'found system', preferred by Christopher Hobbs, in his work Aran (1971), in which a knitting pattern for an Aran sweater, with its different stitches, determines the pitches chosen and the instruments to play them, and in his recent series of pieces called Sudoku Music (2005-6), using 'super' or 'mega' sudoku puzzles having a hexadecimal (16 x 16) grid.

Technological unemployment

They smashed knitting machines that embodied new labor-saving technology as a protest against unemployment, publicizing their actions in circulars mysteriously signed, "King Ludd".

Total Guitar

The magazine is owned by Future plc, who publish many other magazines ranging from drums and video games to mountain bikes and knitting magazines.

Un-Cabaret

When LunaPark closed, UnCabaret moved to the HBO Workspace (where they developed the show with Warner Bros), then to The Knitting Factory and M-Bar always continuing to produce personal narrative comedy with an expanding group of non-traditional comedians Sklar Brothers, Patton Oswalt, Greg Behrendt, Jeff Garlin, Mike McDonald, plus writers like Jerry Stahl, Michael Patrick King, Larry Charles, Judd Apatow, John Riggi and others.

Vassar Swiss Underwear Company Building

The company grew in size, and in 1912, Northwestern Knitting Company (later Munsingwear) purchased the firm.

Wenlan Chia

To complement her books, Chia began to offer knitting lessons in Rockefeller Center's Anthropologie store.

Zen in the Art of Archery

Indeed, more than 200 books now have similar titles, including Robert Pirsig's 1974 widely popular book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, and Ray Bradbury's Zen in the Art of Writing, as well as "Zen and the Art of Poker,", "Zen and the Art of Knitting", and Crazy Legs Conti: Zen and the Art of Competitive Eating, and so on.


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