How long have knitting circles been part of a nationwide trend?
Longer than there has been a nation! In my essay, A Stroll through Knitting Circles Past, I talk about the role that knitting circles played in the American Revolution – let’s just say they helped our young patriots believe that they could exist as an independent nation. There’s also the story of the very different role that some knitters played in the French Revolution, the bloodlust of Les Tricoteuses. 6. Where within the United States is the heaviest concentration of knitting circles? There are knitters everywhere, around the globe. And as Jacque Landry points out in her essay, Knit’s a Small World After All, they are connecting more than ever over the internet. While knitting circles have a history dating back to the Elizabethan age, they are firmly situated in our Web 2.0 world. 7. What is your personal involvement with the subject? I have been knitting since I was eight, but mainly as a solitary pursuit. In my 20s, a friend asked me to teach her how to knit, and I began to realiz
