The March issue of Family Circle magazine had a brief about teaching teenagers to knit. The piece says that more than six million tweens and teens now know how to knit, and that they love getting involved through social networking sites, giving crafty gifts, knitting for charity and even selling their knits to friends or at craft shows.
Another reason it might be good to get more teens knitting: it helps them quit smoking. Students at Lester R. Arnold High School in Commerce City, Colorado, have formed a group encouraging putting down the smokes and picking up the needles. The girls in the group say knitting is relaxing and takes their mind off their problems, as well as giving their hands something to do. It works for grownups, too.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution looks at a group of senior citizens knitting tiny dolls and sending them to the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. The idea is that the dolls can fit in a soldier's pocket, and when he or she can easily carry them around and give them to children they encounter. The group has knit about 150 of the dolls, known as Izzys for Mark Isfeld, a Canadian soldier whose mother started crocheting the dolls when he was serving in Croatia and who died in service to his country in 1994. You can read more about the Isfelds on their website and can make your own Izzy dolls by following these patterns (scroll down for the knitting pattern).
Another reason it might be good to get more teens knitting: it helps them quit smoking. Students at Lester R. Arnold High School in Commerce City, Colorado, have formed a group encouraging putting down the smokes and picking up the needles. The girls in the group say knitting is relaxing and takes their mind off their problems, as well as giving their hands something to do. It works for grownups, too.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution looks at a group of senior citizens knitting tiny dolls and sending them to the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. The idea is that the dolls can fit in a soldier's pocket, and when he or she can easily carry them around and give them to children they encounter. The group has knit about 150 of the dolls, known as Izzys for Mark Isfeld, a Canadian soldier whose mother started crocheting the dolls when he was serving in Croatia and who died in service to his country in 1994. You can read more about the Isfelds on their website and can make your own Izzy dolls by following these patterns (scroll down for the knitting pattern).
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