March of the Emperor

I missed an opportunity to make some sort of March of the Penguins/Happy Feet reference in my last post. Luckily, Chanel presented more than one intarsia penguin sweater for Fall 2007, giving me another excuse to post, and an opportunity to link to this hilarious promo bit for March of the Penguins.

Knitting News - March 8 2007

- pureknits is offering a yarntini sock club membership! The first allotment of memberships sold out quickly, but a few more were added late yesterday. If you missed your chance, console yourself with something else from Yahaira's exquisitely curated shop. Perhaps the yummy looking kashmir dk ?

- You can now register for this year's Split Rock Arts Summer Workshops. A few highlights:
Natural Dyes: Techniques for Wool
A Feltmaker's Bag of Tricks: Exploring Hand-Felting Processes
Knitting: A Different Slant

- Dame Helen Mirren plans to knit a football kit for her Oscar.
The Daily Record - March 6 2007

The 61-year-old star, who last month won the best actress Academy Award for her role in The Queen, said she would do it "to keep him warm". [more]

- Knitting women unite to keep Navy dolphins warm
KOMO-TV - March 2 2007

A group of women gathered Friday at the Bainbridge Island Senior Center.

They are part of a knitting group growing across the United States.

It only It looks like a knitting club.

This is much more than knit one, purl two. This is politics.

"The whole problem of putting them on the dolphins is one of the things we have to consider in the future. It's an interesting thought," said Jan Bailey, one of the knitters.

The women are knitting sweaters for warm-water bottlenose dolphins. The Navy wants to put them on Homeland Security patrol here.

One of the knitters Karin Beran says that's cruel, but says the dolphins will know what to do with the sweaters.

"Well, I guess the dolphins are so smart, so they can figure it out, if and how and when. I'm just happy to knit for them," Beran said. [more]

Comments

[Veronique]

I got in to the Yarntini sock club! Yay! Did you sign up?

[Oiyi]

Sigh...I would love to sign up for the sock club. It has been so tempting, but I still have all the yarn from the Sundara Petals Collection. I just got my Feb shipment and there is one more month to go.

Are you signing up?

[Molly!]

Love that Helen Mirren clip!

Where is your knitting these days?

[knitlit kate]

helen mirren: cougar AND knitter. she is my hero!

[carrie m]

what's cuter than a dolphin sweater, really? maybe just a penguin sweater.

[megan]

Helen Mirren is fantastic.

Hope all is well with you :)

[David]

I love the blog that you have. I was wondering if you would link my blog to yours and in return I would do the same for your blog. If you want to, my site name is American Legends and the URL is:

www.americanlegends.info

If you want to do this just go to my blog and in one of the comments just write your blog name and the URL and I will add it to my site.

Thanks,
David

[knitlit kate]

hey amy, where have you been?? i miss you in blogland! hugs & hope all is well...kate

[marjorie]

Hi, haven't seen you post in a long time. You have been tagged by me. Please check when you have time.