Tired of Knitting Alone?
Be Bold. Be Brave. Go Public!
Join your fellow knitters for one day of knitting in public. Saturday, June 9, 2018 is World Wide Knit in Public Day.
The needle arts have long been a popular and one of the most popular of needle arts is knitting. If you don’t knit you can read about knitting. There are a surprising number of children’s books that feature the needle arts and knitting in particular. McLure has many of these titles ready for you to check them out. Check out the following titles at McLure Education Library.
Tiny & Hercules
Five short stories about the lives of two unusual friends: Tiny, an elephant with a fear of ice skating and a newfound love of knitting, and Hercules, a mouse with a heart of gold and a desire to learn to paint.
- Education School Library Book
- Call Number:PZ7.S406 Tj 2009
With a supply of yarn that never runs out, Annabelle knits for everyone and everything in town until an evil archduke decides he wants the yarn for himself.
- Education School Library Book
- Call Number:PZ7.B26615 Ext 2012
A classical take on knitting – and its consequences. The 1974 Caldecot winning children’s book Duffy and the Devil makes for a rollicking read.
The spinning and knitting the devil agrees to do for her win Duffy the Squire’s name and a carefree life until it comes time for her to guess the devil‘s name. Then there is the Devil to pay.
- Education School Library Book
- Call Number:PZ8.1.Z38 Du3
For a historical perspective on knitting take a look at this book.
When his father leaves to fight in World War I, Mikey joins the Central Park Knitting Bee to help knit clothing for soldiers overseas.
- Education School Library Book
- Call Number:PZ7.H778125 Kn 2013
For those interested in knitting something for themselves, McLure has a book help get you started.
Provides step-by-step instructions covering the basic stitches, knitting tools, and finger-knitting, with directions for twelve easy projects.
- Education School Library Book
- Call Number:TT820 .F15 1998
Knitting in public is not for everyone or every time. When you want to knit alone, this is the book for you.
Grandmother wants so badly to be left alone to finish the knitting for her grandchildren that she leaves her tiny home and her big family to journey to the moon and beyond to find peace and quiet to finish her knitting.
- Education School Library Book
- PZ7.1.B788 Le 2016
But if you are tired of knitting alone? Then. Be Bold. Be Brave. Go public.
Get those needles and that yarn and take your knitting out of the closet, your room, or your house. Knit while you eat that Big Mac. Knit while you sip your Starbucks. Knit at your local bookstore while you listen to a recorded book. Or best of all, read aloud to kids while they knit.
