It's a nationwide craft craze!

Since my last knitting entry here, I've been noticing knitting everywhere I go. First Christina gave me Stitch 'N Bitch for Christmas, along with some yarn and needles. Stitch 'N Bitch is a fun and modern spin on knitting. It has plenty of lessons for beginners, plus some cool patterns that look like they were designed this century. I have seen some knitters complaining about the details in the patterns, but the style is definitely there. Reading SnB, I notice that there is a Stitch 'N Bitch site listing all the SnB groups forming in the world, though the Pittsburgh group is just an email address right now. Then today I see that knitting fever is even taking over a New Jersey school. All the hip kids can make scarves these days.

Craze aside, I've been finding some resources out there. Helpful to me lately have been the Knitting community on LiveJournal, with a thousand helpful members, plus great links on their profile page, and StitchGuide - the online stitch reference guide (their cast-on instructions are the clearest explanation I've seen), plus all the links on knitting.about.com (though about.com's structure often confounds me).

For fun, the main Knitting LJ community links to the Harry Potter Knitting & Crafts community, where you can learn to make Gryffindor scarves (as shown here) or one of Molly's fabulous jumpers, and a punk knitting community for all your fishnet needs.