What is National Knit in the Park Day?
We asked Paulette Lane of the West Coast Knitters Guild in Vancouver about this and here is what she told us: The West Coast Knitters’ Guild has been Knitting in Stanley Park for 8 years, as of 2006. In 2004, I learned that the Gilli-Hook Heritage Knitters Guild in Calgary was knitting in the park in Calgary on the same day. I could not let this co-incidence pass. I had all the guild contact e-mails for the newsletter exchange so I invited all the guilds, and knitters without guilds, to knit in the park in their community and Knitting in the Park across Canada was born. The Nelson Knitters formed a “guild” as a result of the event in 2004. The Americans have the national Knit Out, Crochet Too every year in September sponsored by the Crafts Yarn Council of America with lots of events and exhibitors. It always bugged me that Canadians did not have a national day for knitting so I seized the opportunity to see what would happen. I did not want all the hoopla and need for organization, jus
