saturday: wwkip!!

Saturday is Worldwide Knit in Public Day. Yarn shops and knitting groups all over the world will be knitting in public to enjoy each others' company and to be seen. Knitting and crochet are yarn crafts that are not only a genre of fiber art but are also seriously social practices during this current resurgence of these media. I think it's good -- not that anyone really cares what I think. I know that part of my enjoyment of machine sewing and quilting is the sharing part with my Material Girls DKnJ and I'm sure yarn crafts are likewise. I haven't had the time to join a knitting group but there are tons of virtual knitting groups doing "knit alongs" (KALs) or who don't knit the same thing, but communicate online with great regularity.

My LYS will be having a WWKIP get together in the park across the street from the Ho-Ho-Kus NJ Post Office. I won't be attending because I need to pack etc. However, I will likely be going to Barnes & Noble with Bern for a couple hours Saturday night. If I do, I'll take knitting and knit in the cafe -- so I will have participated in the WWKIP. :-)