Topic: Knitting

French blogger needles the elite with knitted news

AFP Global Edition - 77 days ago
From a randy Dominique Strauss-Kahn to a diminutive Nicolas Sarkozy, a French blogger has become an Internet hit by needling the rich and powerful with knitted dolls in sly recreations of the news.Inspired by the sex scandal around former IMF director Strauss-Kahn, ...
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French blogger needle the elite with knitted news

AFP Global Edition - 78 days ago
From a randy Dominique Strauss-Kahn to a diminutive Nicolas Sarkozy, a French blogger has become an Internet hit by needling the rich and powerful with knitted dolls in sly recreations of the news.Inspired by the sex scandal around former IMF director Strauss-Kahn, ...
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Harry Potter film tour to offer magical insight

AFP Global Edition - 126 days ago
Harry Potter fans mourning the end of the boy wizard movies will have their spirits lifted by a new British attraction offering "muggles" a peek at the magic behind the films.The cameras have stopped rolling in the cavernous Great Hall, at the ...
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Knitter cozies up to yarnstorming

Las Vegas Sun - 151 days ago
Artist Diane Bush has a long history as a radical hippie, fighting the man, the war, the media and politics. If a movement appeals to her philosophy and aesthetic, she dives in full throttle. No surprise then that she's formed a not-so-rogue ...
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Graffiti knitters to hit streets on Yarnbombing Day

Reuters Life! Online Report - 239 days ago
LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Their surreptitious strikes can happen at any time of the day or night.They target the urban landscape -- fences, poles, bicycle racks, construction sites and other commonplace fixtures of city life -- but their weapon is wool and ...
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'Weirdos' camp on London streets for royal wedding

AFP Global Edition - 286 days ago
An elite band of Diana fanatics, knitting grandmothers and self-confessed "weirdo" students camped out Tuesday opposite Westminster Abbey, bagging a prime spot to watch the royal wedding.John Loughrey, 56, said he was never going to be anywhere else ahead of Friday's big ...
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Katherine Heigl to produce, star in HBO movie

Reuters US Online Report Entertainment News - 304 days ago
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Katherine Heigl is returning to television -- with an HBO telefilm.The former "Grey's Anatomy" actress-turned-big screen leading lady will produce and star in Craig Wright's adaptation of "The Knitting Circle," HBO Films confirmed Friday.Based on the best-seller ...
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Giant scarf knitted for Peru's missing

AFP Global Edition - 431 days ago
A clutch of women knitting together is a familiar, friendly sight in the Peruvian highlands, a region prized for its wool where traditional, home-knitted outfits are part of everyday clothing. But the women in Ayacucho share more than a love of knitting. ...
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Book Review

Suite 101 - 433 days ago
For many knitters, knitting is a pattern-craft. In her wonderful philosophy of knitting, Mrs. Zimmerman sets forth unapologetically how she feels about knitting. Most knitters hate to swatch to find knitting gauge, or stitches per inch, but Mrs. Zimmerman devotes an entire ...

Knitting with Beads - A Free Christmas Stocking Pattern

Suite 101 - 433 days ago
This Christmas stocking looks bright and colourful and takes less than 400g of double knitting wool. 8's) knitting needles2 stitch holders400g of double knitting wool (any colour yarn)Selection of beads (assorted, bugle beads, sparkly beads etc)Abbreviations: K1, * K2, P4, rep from ...
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