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Knitting for Peace
Christiansen, Betty. Illus: Shirobayashi, Kiriko
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Description for Knitting for Peace
Paperback. All across the world, people are knitting for peace. They call the work they do "charity knitting." This work tells the stories of 28 knitting-for-peace endeavours, with smaller, more anecdotal stories shared in corresponding sidebars. It also offers practicial, hands-on information, including 15 patterns for easy-to-knit charity projects. Illustrator(s): Shirobayashi, Kiriko. Num Pages: 136 pages, 16 colour images. BIC Classification: WFBS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 217 x 16. Weight in Grams: 552.
All across America, people are knitting for peace. In yarn shops and private homes, churches and synagogues, schools and even prisons, they meet on weekday evenings or weekend afternoons to knit afghans for refugees, mittens for the homeless, socks for soldiers, or preemie caps for AIDS babies. The tradition goes back as far as Martha Washington, who spearheaded knitting efforts for the soldiers of the Revolutionary War, and has seen a recent flourishing in what is nowadays called “charity knitting,” “community knitting,” or “knitting for others.” And whether it’s for world peace, community peace, or peace of mind, today’s various ... Read more
All across America, people are knitting for peace. In yarn shops and private homes, churches and synagogues, schools and even prisons, they meet on weekday evenings or weekend afternoons to knit afghans for refugees, mittens for the homeless, socks for soldiers, or preemie caps for AIDS babies. The tradition goes back as far as Martha Washington, who spearheaded knitting efforts for the soldiers of the Revolutionary War, and has seen a recent flourishing in what is nowadays called “charity knitting,” “community knitting,” or “knitting for others.” And whether it’s for world peace, community peace, or peace of mind, today’s various ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Stewart, Tabori & Chang Inc United States
Number of pages
136
Condition
New
Number of Pages
132
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781584795339
SKU
V9781584795339
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Christiansen, Betty. Illus: Shirobayashi, Kiriko
Betty Christiansen is a freelance editor and writer who has knitted since age eight. She has an MFA in non-fiction writing from Sarah Lawrence College and has written articles on knitting for peace and other subjects for many publications, including Interweave Knits, Vogue Knitting and Family Circle Knitting magazines and the books Knitting Yarns and Spinning Tales (Voyageur, 2005) and ... Read more
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