Knitting Factories
LA Weekly - November 15 2006
We’ve all seen the pictures of Julia Roberts in those sweaters she knits herself. We know that Kate Moss darns during photo-shoot downtimes. No one needs to tell us that knitting is a hot hobby. What they don’t tell us is that knitting can get really monotonous. Every year, I get the brilliant notion to knit my holiday gifts. I get out the yarn and needles around Thanksgiving, then knit and purl until the whole thing becomes so boring that I throw another half-made something onto the pile and head out to buy mass-produced presents. If only I could wrap up my unfinished mitten with a little note that says, “It’s the thought that counts, right?”Here’s where the whole knitting-is-hip trend has some benefits. Yarn shops now offer classes and group knitting sessions — “stitch ’n’ bitches” — with wine tastings, poetry readings... and men. And some shops, knowing all too well about the many half-finished scarves in the world, offer quick-gift workshops, so at the end of the evening, you’ll actually have completed something more than a thought that doesn’t count.
Here are a few good shops where when you knit, you don’t knit alone. [more]
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