Political Knitting anyone?

[susie_flo]

Hee hee...  last week's Guardian included  a knitting supplement which introduced the concept of 'political knitting' (while simultaneously giving away free patterns for such hard-core items as banana cosies).  The main contributor to the article was a 'rebel' knitter who had been sued by the BBC for giving away free Dr Who inspired knitting patterns on her blog.  

So, while pondering the truly mystifying topic of political knitting, I came across two amusing links...  

First of all, may I introduce Knitler (you know you want one!)....  http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1448685.ece

Secondly, how about an underground urban tagging group called Knitta....  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knitta

Comments

[kissmeforlonger.livejournal.com]

My aunt was raving about this and has already made the mobile phone cosy.

[the-meanest-cat.livejournal.com]

Heh... not sure whether a phone cosy is quite my cup of tea, though I did get bitten by the knitting bug a few years ago myself. It took me a whole year to make a cashmere scarf, but it's gorgeous!

Trouble is I keep making things that are too big... I tried to make a baby shoe for Natalie last week and it turned out the right size for a yeti (I think I knit too loosely) :-(