Florida Knitters

I can't keep up with updating the store listings for yarn shops in FL and local SNB's anymore. The pages will be removed. Duplicate information is available about everywhere, unlike when I started this blog, and I'm also tired of people giving me attitude about updates or about not wanting their information on their public knitting group made "public". Er. . . what part of public is confusicatin' for you?

I'll still continue to post news having to do with FL knitting as I find it!

In October, the Sterling Aventura community donated close to 100 hand-knitted warming scarves, blankets and hats to Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital as well as adult breast cancer survivors in recognition of Breast Cancer Awareness month.

The weekly knitting group, known as "The Knit Wits and Kibbutzers" of the Sterling Aventura Luxury Assisted Living Facility has been donating hand-making knitted items to those in need for several years. For information, call 305-918-0000 or visit: http://www.sterlingaventura.com.

The January Spin-in will be held at Seascape Resort in Destin Florida. The dates are January 23-27, 2008. The cost is $20.00 and the DEADLINE TO REGISTER: January 14, 2008.

EDIT: An anonymous poster indicates the information I got from both the Florida Fiber-in website and the Ravelry Florida Fiber-In discussion thread is incorrect. Sadly, Anonymous did not clarify what information is incorrect or what the right contact info is.

That's right, Laurie Perry is in S. Florida. The Sun-Sentinel wrote a nice little article about her, too. Here's the schedule:

MEET THE AUTHOR
Laurie Perry reads from her book.

Friday at 3 p.m. at The Yarn Tree, 1418 S. Federal Highway, Dania Beach; 954-921-1160

Saturday at 1:30 p.m. at the Miami Book Fair International, Miami Dade College, 300 NE Second Ave., Miami, Room 3315 Building 3, 3rd Floor; 305-237-3258.

Here's a nice herald article entitled: "Davie knitting/crochet club keeps a declining art alive: Davie's Pioneers made everything themselves, and the old school knitting group aims to pass along that era's arts"

KNITTING UP "DAISIES": Viewers of this season's instant hit "Pushing Daisies" are going to get an eyeful of mighty interesting knit work made by Chi McBride's character, private investigator Emerson Cod. The behind-the-scenes talent responsible is celebrity knitting guru, author, designer and owner of the popular Studio City, Calif., knitting yarn emporium, La Knitterie Parisienne, Edith Eig. Eig has been a formidable force in the knitting world for years, pushing the craze to knitting fanatics from Virginia Madsen to Catherine Zeta Jones.

For "Pushing Daisies," research was first and foremost on the agenda, and Eig was up for the task, teaching Chi the art of knitting. Her expertise was further employed when she was asked to custom design and hand knit a selection of one-of-a-kind props for the show. In a matter of days, she wielded her knitting needles to stitch up items including two gun holsters in red suede yarn, 10 "money bags" (aka socks), a tissue box, coasters, a pencil holder, a coffee-mug cozy, a desk file organizer, and a warm cable-knit scarf in a gold, cream and green tweed. Story from National Ledger

"Unseen but deeply felt were the blessings of goodwill woven through the soft yarn."

Here's a nice article from the Miami Herald about a prayer shawl group from Trinity Lutheran Church in Pembroke Pines.