Now there’s a title I never thought I’d write.  I had an interesting email a few days ago from Nina who volunteers with Ve’ahavta which runs (among other things) an outreach program for the homeless.  They’re interested in what we can provide – and they always need socks.  Socks: easy to knit in the summer because they’re [...]

This is Vera.  Vera is 83 years old and lives in Duncan, BC.  For those of you, like me, not from around there, that’s on Vancouver Island.  Vera is a friend of my partner’s mother and heard about the streetknit project through her.  Since then she’s been making scarves for us.  Did I mention that [...]

Haley at Knit-O-Matic (http://www.knitomatic.com) has come through again!  She’s put together “street knit kits” made up of enough donated yarn to make a scarf.  She suggests using this pattern http://www.spunmag.com/article/tammy_and_evan - I notice that the pattern is Haley’s design too   Just drop by the store on stitch’n bitch night (Wednesdays 6 – 8 p.m.) and [...]

The new Knitty is out today and has a great new pattern for hats.  Ok, it has lots of great new patterns (as usual) but this one http://www.knitty.com/ISSUEsummer06/PATThalfdome.html  is, I think particularly useful for our project.  Simple, neat and looks good on everyone. And congratulations to Amy at Knitty for making the leap to full [...]