Crafters and knitters get together and crochet pieces of art to cover public furniture or sculpture.
Craft fairs and shops offer opportunities for knitters and crafters to sell their creations.
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Knitters are to gather in Coventry to attempt to break a record for knitting while raising money for charity.
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Some of the clothes my sisters and I wore were handmade (we came from a family of expert embroiderers and knitters).
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All the tweed coats and jackets (British fabrics, Indian tailors) and cardigans (British wool and patterns, family-women knitters) came out of mothballed trunks.
Ms Ventrillon is indignant that knitters in the Shetland archipelago, 25 miles (40 km) away, pass off their jumpers as Fair Isle jerseys.
In June Microsoft led a project in Tirupur to roll out an order-tracking application that knitters could access over the Web by text messaging.
Armed with crochet needles and scissors, the Secret Outside Crocheters and Knitters (SOCK) weaved their woolly magic on the promenade in Newcastle, County Down.
Once a work is mapped out, she works with her team of knitters on looms that can churn out about 5 feet of knitting per hour.
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"We have been planning to yarn bomb Newcastle for some time, " said an anonymous member of SOCK who, like her fellow knitters, wears a woolly mask to disguise her identity.
By contrast, Peruvian jewelry makers and knitters selling through the usual commercial channels receive only 1 to 5 cents of the retail dollar, according to research by Partners for Just Trade, in St.
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