Knitting in the News: Knits for Paris hipsters, supermodels and sports fans

The New York Times notes that people who still think of grannies when they think of knitting (not that there's anything wrong with knitting grannies!) should seek out the knitting group Les Tricopathes (that's a combo of the French words for knitting and psychopaths) who put on monthly knitting events in bars throughout the city. They'll teach you to knit wacky wonders while retro rock blares in the background.


In celebrity knitting news, it turns out that model Paulina Porizkova is a knitter and says she'd rather be knitting toys for her son's school fair and teaching the other parents to knit that worrying about fashion.


Alabama and Tennessee are big rivals on the football field, and in the field of knitting as well. The towns where the two schools are located recently took part in a preemie cap knitting challenge, and it was no contest. Tennessee knitters whipped up 3,171 caps to Bama's 1,738, all of which will be donated to local children's hospitals. On the gridiron, Alabama won 12 to 10 last weekend.


Finally, a yarn store owner in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, is running a fun promotion around the Phillies' effort to repeat as World Series champs. The shop, A Knitting Party, is offering a discount on red and white yarns that goes up each time the Phillies score a run. So far the discount is running at 25 percent.