Slow news day

Links, links, links...

What do you do after having a disappointing Olympics? For one New Zealander, the choice is to take a year off and "go knitting".

The world's biggest sock is being knit as I type. (How there isn't an accompanying photo is beyond me.)

There's nothing particularly remarkable in this article about a knitting group that meets in a pub once a month, but I point it out for the laugh-inducing next-to-last line: "The group has also brought knitting to the internet – by setting up its own Facebook group to keep its 100 members up to date with news." Shocking!

The group must have a good public relations person or something because here's another, more thorough piece about them. The bringing knitting to the internet thing is stated again, although a paragraph later the writer acknowledges that the needlecraft has experienced a resurgence due to the information available online. And although it's a small one, Ravelry does manage a mention.