Knitting World Record Attempt

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As part of Roscommon Lamb Festival 2011, an attempt to break
the World Record for the largest group of knitters in one place is being made on Saturday 30th April, 2011 @ 1.00pm in Dr. Hyde Park, Athlone Road, Roscommon. Click here for more details!

Knitting World Record Attempt

http://www.roscommonlambfestival.com/world-record-attempt

Craft Blog Update 13th-19th March

I would like to welcome any new readers, and thank old ones for visiting, we’re not that old and we hope to continue to do this as time allows. If you know of any blogs that should be included please contact us by email or a post on this or the Irish Knitting, Crochet and crafty blogging post. The same goes if you want to be removed. If you are included in our updates please mention if you want to be removed from there too. Please note that neither I or SineadR do this as a full-time job, and allied to that our jobs actually restrict our webtime. We will do our best to get stuff done as soon as possible but that may take a few days or hours. In order to optimise my trawling I have set up a Netvibes Page for the blogs this is not foolproof and I may miss updates but it’s been better than some of the other options.  I have also decided that if a blog posts more than about 10 or so posts in a week I’m just going to link to the site, unless something in particular catches my eye that’s very craft related. You may notice that some posts from Sundays have been repeated, this is if there is time-sensitive information included in them, this does sometimes lead to repeated links from the previous week.

Happy St Patricks Day to everyone and remember, it's Paddy not Patty

2 Knit or not 2 Knit does a spinning demonstration; wishes happy St Patricks Day (in Irish!); does a spinning demonstration in Oranmore

An Evening Wasted With updates over a few days; and has to get the washing machine fixed and starts a new project

An Snag Breac Beo makes some felted mushrooms

Anula's Kitchen makes a Peruvian potato and meat dish; Almond and Orange Biscuits; Full Irish Breakfast and Happy St Patricks Day; and solves a Flour Mystery

Aranbrew congratulates her husband for Irish Blog Award nomination

As the World falls down has several updates

Basil Explosion finds a video about Barcelona

Beckydazzler has an equestrian moment on the streets of Dublin

Cattapilla Designs shares some of the spring flowers; gets a book and some jars; wishes everyone a Happy St Patricks Day and shows some propagation

Celtic Knots starts the Hwaet socks and gets some other projects done

Chebe talks about the Maker Faire in Newcastle; works on some projects; shares the code for her temperature sensing scarf and shares an article

Clasheen talks about not quite getting the effect she wanted; is inspired by photographs from the West and does microwave dyeing and shares a recipe

Colour and Ink makes a make-a-wish card; a St Patricks' Day Card; Paperplay Embossing and a frog card

Crafty Alley has a big update

Dispatches from the Deise has a day out in Lismore and makes some hippie headbands

Dragon days photographs a self-made ornament

Dublin Knit Collective celebrate being in the Washington Post; links to Wyvernfriend's FAQ on Aran Knitting; wishes everyone a Happy St Patrick's Day and announces the twitter Lunarknit which was on the Saturday

Etsy Ireland talks about the Dublin Meetup; does their Crafty News Desk; gives the last clue for their competition; has tea and chat with JenDoyleDesigns; wishes everyone a happy St Patricks Day and does a Fab Five on Friday

Fionaviola talks about chains of craft and talks about an older project

Fly Along shows her latest obsession, Silk hankies

From Sheep to Shawl teaches in Oranmore Library and a Spinning Demonstration

Green Waves talks about Holly and about these days

Haz Wool will Knit makes a vintage sewn skirt; talks about a historical knitter and de and re-stashes

Irish Muses celebrates an Anniversary and shares pictures of Joes Journal; nominates a second March Star; shares a tour of Dunfanaghy; celebrates St Patrick's Day; talks about the AccuQuilt Contest; talks about an International Quilt Festival in Galway; makes an EQ Block

Kersti talks about the Travellers Century Club; weddings and cyclones; her tweet week and investigates threading

Knit Inc is proud of being mentioned in the Washington Post and has a gadget that comes with a put the drink down warning; wishes everyone a happy St Patricks Day and finishes her dads socks

Knitting Elizabeth the feed has a famous follower and She Knit Up That makes some 36 stitch mittens

Knitting Neels talks about Knitting, Sewing and cycling

Lets Knit and Stitch shows Jemima Jane and shows a simple Crochet Wrap

Limerick Live wishes her son a happy 13th birthday

Little Hare wishes everyone a Happy St Patricks Day and celebrates St Joseph's Day

Michelle Made This has some hammock time; does some knitting and sculpting

Miss Aine makes Melvin; uses a baking gadget to make some brownies; makes Melvin and Marian; shares some St Patrick's Day Photographs and makes some farm animals

Miss Walsh admits to being a little behind in her crafting and announces a craft group and talks about gadgets

Mitt liv på Irland, My life in Ireland wishes everyone happy St Patrick's Day

Morg Today makes a felt shamrock; shares the warmest spot in the house and shares 12 things he loves about Ireland

Needles and Haystacks doesn't sew but does some painting and wishes everyone a happy St Patrick's Day

Neen Crochet goes to the Circus, gets some crochet done and a St Patricks Wreath and shares 10 reasons she loves being Irish

The Nest is back to normal; has a new arrival; enjoys some sun; enjoys a yarn-along and shares a Warldorf Sweetpea Doll tutorial

NicKnits makes a pair of Mittens for the Ravelry St Patricks Celebration Competition

Rubysasha finished a few projects

Runcible Spoon is inspired by Inishfood

Selkie's Crochet has a blog update, sells some items and finishes some items; walks on the beach and gets some crochet done; is photographed on the beach and finishes some crochet

She knit up that Ball talks about the Bloggers day of Silence; cross posts the Elizabeth Zimmermann mittens

The Siegel Six has several updates

Springstitches makes an R2D2 inspired baby hat and a baby version of the Whale Watch Hat

StitchLily talks about the Pan Celtic Festival and Irish Lace

Things that strikes me explains why you should donate blood; why she hunted down some Lego minifigs; goes to an Antiques Fair; restarts making a skirt; makes some homemade Hazelnut Chocolate Spread and talks about the most useful tool in her kitchen

This and That wishes everyone Happy St Patricks Day

This is Knit shows off their gift packs; wishes everyone a Happy St Patricks Day and talks about swatching

Thread Bear Picnic reproduces an article about Breaking the Mould

Under me Oxter gets organised for St Patrick's Day and suggests supporting Irish Produce

Yarnboi makes a baby jumper and a hat

Yarn Classes shows a class of shamrock makers and makes some psychedelic flowers

Where People Create interviews Tammy Vitale about her studio space

Where there's a Wool wishes everyone a Happy St Patrick's Day

Wirewrapped shows a Silver Cthulu; a red & black Pendant in Negative; a double-sided purple agate pendant; a shoggoth wire wrapped pendant; St Patrick's Day Pendant; Labradorite, Opalite and dyed Agate - two pendants and Labroadorite with blue flashes pendant

Woolly Way of Ireland talks about a weekend in the Woods in Clare; a fashion festival with GtiGalway; the 2011 Sheep & Wool Festival in Kilkenny and Knit, Spin, Felt in Galway

WyvernfriendKnits writes a FAQ about Aran Knitting

Crafty Blog Update 6th-12th March

I would like to welcome any new readers, and thank old ones for visiting, we’re not that old and we hope to continue to do this as time allows.
If you know of any blogs that should be included please contact us by email or a post on this or the Irish Knitting, Crochet and crafty blogging post. The same goes if you want to be removed. If you are included in our updates please mention if you want to be removed from there too. Please note that neither I or SineadR do this as a full-time job, and allied to that our jobs actually restrict our webtime. We will do our best to get stuff done as soon as possible but that may take a few days or hours. In order to optimise my trawling I have set up a Netvibes Page for the blogs this is not foolproof and I may miss updates but it’s been better than some of the other options.  I have also decided that if a blog posts more than about 10 or so posts in a week I’m just going to link to the site, unless something in particular catches my eye that’s very craft related.
You may notice that some posts from Sundays have been repeated, this is if there is time-sensitive information included in them, this does sometimes lead to repeated links from the previous week.

If you've come here on foot of the Washington Press Article welcome!

Our heart go out locally to Elana of Knit Wasabi and her family who have had a week of hell, and to the folks in Japan.

2Knit or not 2 Knit shares a PolEtsy treasury; announces the close of her competition; does the draw and teases about the result; announces the result and sells her handspun through Pippa Blue

Akka Designs has some photographs about the Winter that Never Was

An Apology for an Idler makes an iPhone Cozy; has some thoughts about Ash Wednesday and about Nature being Majestic

An Evening Wasted with does a Census Meme

An Snag Breac Beo plays with some handkerchiefs and embroidery

Anula's Kitchen makes some Beer Braised Pork Knuckles

As the World Falls Down is Home; is busy and hates to grovel

Basil Explosion has mostly been reading

BeckyDazzler is featured in The Gloss

Cattaphilla Dreaming has a bit of a rant; shares springtime colour; celebrates Women's Day and talks about her Greenhouse

Chebe is swamped but has some sewing links

Clasheen has American Workshop updates, book news and pictures; more news about a workshop and sheep sheering championships and finds a way to avoid sewing

Colour and Ink makes a monster card and links to a blog hop; paperplays with shades of green; talks about making your own happiness

Dispatches from the Deise discusses The Reader by Bernhard Schlink and attends a Labour Special Delegate Conference in Dublin

Dragon days plays with a light

Droim an Uan shows off some unblocked handspun self-designed items

Dublin Knit Collective highlights a new knit meetup

Duilleoga is happy that Spring is here

Etsy Ireland has their Crafty News Desk; welcomes new members; shares a skinny latte treasury; talks about selling on Etsy; has an urgent call to team members and has a fab five on Friday

From Sheep to Shawl attends an International Women's Conference conference in UL (University of Limerick) and has a knitting class there

Green Waves remembers winter and talks about friends

Half a Dream Away photographs blossoms; a plane and yarn and needles

Handmaiden of Adonai does a few days snapshot

Haz wool will Knit talks about Crochet-a-long chaos

Herborium paints Nasturtiums and thinks of Summer

Irish Muses wins some prizes and get an embosser; updates on projects and gets a surprise in the mail

Kay B's finishes her skirt

Kersti shares her tweet week

Knit Inc has a panic about a deadline

Knitting Neels visits London, finishes a shawl and mitts and gets some loot

Lets Knit & Stitch gets more from Rico Can Can and congratulates some of their Crochet Class

Limerick Live visits a chiropractor; talks about Lent

Margie Crafts works on a cardigan

Milkmoon feels something in the air

Miss Aine makes a Spring Fairy; kid does some photographs; makes a sock monkey and a Poppy Fairy

Morg Today wishes those in Japan well and listens to Chopin

Needles and Haystacks makes a birthday shirt and cake

Neencrochet  goes to a 21st Birthday Party

The Nest has a prayer for Japan

NicKnits highlights the St Patricks Day competition and gets confused by numbers

Pippablue announce some of their March & April workshops

The Runcible Spoon shares a cross atlantic chilli and cornbread recipe

She Knit up that Ball does some in-stashing; gets some tea cups and announces the winner of her Fair Trade Competition

The Siegel Six has several update

Springwools celebrates Women's Day

Stitchlily reviews the Cork Textiles Network Conference

Stuff and nonsense participates in the Bantam Beats micro fiction

This and That talks about when women didn't work

This is knit talks about tea and pancakes and local colour

Thread Bear's Picnic's Happy Monday has sleeves and talks about hands

Up to my Lack of Tonsils talks about World Book Day; talks about writing scared, sick and tired and does a Ladybird Collage

Wire Wrapped Jewelry makes a dark blue pendant; has some new gothic hearts; makes a huge agate pendant; has cthulhus that need good homes; fantasy inspired double-sided pendant; an agate teardrop and has tips for photographing jewelry

Woolly Way of Ireland highlights the Derryaun Crafts Workshop Calendar; Stitch sisters in Airfield; a fish exchange; upcoming workshops with Textile Workshop Dublin; story of Irish Lace in Dingle

Woolly Winged Gathering talks about timeless stitching

Wyvernfriendknits talks about project ideas

The Washington Post

This humble little blog got a mention today in The Washington Post! A travel writer contacted The Dublin Knit Collective and I helped out with the query. Here's a link to the article: Travel Your Way. I'm really delighted to see Irish Knitting getting some press in the States, and to any visitors from the article; Hello! I hope you find all the information you're looking for. If we can help out in any way, please contact us at knitinc AT gmail DOT com.

Crafty Blog Update 27th February-5th March

I would like to welcome any new readers, and thank old ones for visiting, we’re not that old and we hope to continue to do this as time allows.
If you know of any blogs that should be included please contact us by email or a post on this or the Irish Knitting, Crochet and crafty blogging post. The same goes if you want to be removed. If you are included in our updates please mention if you want to be removed from there too. Please note that neither I or SineadR do this as a full-time job, and allied to that our jobs actually restrict our webtime. We will do our best to get stuff done as soon as possible but that may take a few days or hours. In order to optimise my trawling I have set up a Netvibes Page for the blogs this is not foolproof and I may miss updates but it’s been better than some of the other options.  I have also decided that if a blog posts more than about 10 or so posts in a week I’m just going to link to the site, unless something in particular catches my eye that’s very craft related.
You may notice that some posts from Sundays have been repeated, this is if there is time-sensitive information included in them, this does sometimes lead to repeated links from the previous week.

An Evening Wasted With finishes a pair of socks; posts february reads and ponders knee socks

2 Knit or not 2 Knit talks about Fat Tuesday on the POLetsy blog

An Apology for an Idler shares a video and shares finished socks

Ankonymous talks about home towns

Aran Brew makes some fingerless gloves

As the World falls down has several posts

Basil Explosion explains some of her absence and shows a shot of a beautiful vista

Beckydazzler goes to a Swatch event and gets a new swatch watch

Cattapilla Designs takes part in a Photo Scavenger hunt; wishes everyone a happy St David's Day; shares flowers; has a blooming Friday and has a bit of a rant

Celtic Knots makes a few more cards and a finished quilt

Chebe talks about how sometimes people become closeminded even about opensource and makes some flowers with LEDs

Clasheen makes a small felted vessel and the Horst workshop is almost booked out; shares some felting photographs; talks about CRAFTed and spring lambs and shares some of the CRAFTed projects

Colour and Ink shares 7 things about her; a touch of sparkle to welcome march; makes a thank you card; makes a shabby vintage card; makes an enjoy the ride card; thanks for a link and makes another card

Crafty Alley talks about it being March

Dispatches from the Deise is happy with election results and shares some Road Art

Dragon Days wishes everyone a happy St David's Day and photographs a restoration project

Etsy Ireland talks about Etsy Chat; does their crafty news desk; introduces new members; shares Irish Treasuries; talks about making hexagons; has a fab five on Friday and announces this year's St Patricks Day competition

Feanor Crafts shows off their new addition and has an announcement for millinery class attendees

Fly Along has some matched mismatched socks

Green Waves greets spring and celebrates a moment

Half a Dream away photographs a market; tea pots; poinsettias and blossoms

Haz wool will knit wishes everyone a happy St David's Day and talks about solutions to Knitting Problems

Herborium paints some Almond Blossoms and a chillian bellflower

High Function has several updates

Irish Muses makes a new hearts potholder; nominates her March Star; posts about someone who deleted her blog (accidentally) and some OWOH wins, surprises and her kitchen shelves

Kay B finishes the purple Houndstooth skirt

Kersti shares her tweet week

Knit Inc finishes a project, and makes project plans and reviews the latest Vogue Knitting

Knitting Neels has some FOs and some WIPs

Laura Eliason thanks people for coming to the launch and creates a container for a quality of retreat

Limerick Live has to do some ripping

Maethebear makes a 101 things to do in 1001 days list and posts a Jonathan Safron Foer video

Michelle Made This is glad it's spring; talks about health benefits of Knitting and finds a strange egg

Miss Aine starts feeling better; starts a KAL; has a family day at a playground

Mitt liv på Irland, My life in Ireland sponsors a sheep and meets sheep and sees spring flowers

Morg Today links to a John Bramblitt video; first match of the season and plays pokemon white

NicKnits is having Yarn Passion

RubySasha finishes a birthday present and starts a Juicy Danish Tie Shawl

She knit up that Ball talks about her weekend; a teapot cozy; talks about fair-trading your housework; a lady in Red and has a fair trade giveaway

Springstitches is tending her ill laptop

Springwools are looking for new staff; like their Facebook Fans and show their March Desktop Wallpaper

Stitchlily talks about textile madness in Munster

Stuff and Nonsense thinks about moving the blog and shares some photographs

The Constant Knitter gets some new yarns in

The Runcible Spoon makes Choc Chunk and Cinnamon cookies

The Siegel Six has several posts

This is Knit talks about their Finishing Knitting Class and an amazing Crochet Wedding Dress

Thread Bear's Picnic wishes everyone a happy Monday and declares herself a bad girlfriend

Tim Dowling finishes a space invaders woolly hat

Up to my lack-of-tonsils confesses her love of Ladybirds

Valentina's Room does an update about stuff and crafty markets

Wirewrapped does an oval steampunk pendant; a crystal teardrop; a rectangle steampink pendant; some steampunk hearts; red steampunk egg II; a double colour steampunk pendant and goes to the Woman Factor Festival

Woolly Way of Ireland talks about seamless exhibition; a thread softly exhibition; the official opening of the Sewing Shed in Kerry; coral reef on the move; talks about International Woman's Day

Wyvernfriendknits finishes a pair of socks

Yarn Classes makes her yarn postcard

New Knitting Groups

Two new knitting groups have been added to the site today:

Blackrock, Co. Dublin
Winnie’s Craft Cafe will be hosting a weekly knit night beginning Wednesday 9th March from 7 p.m. – 9 p.m. Bring along your latest projects. The cafe will be open until 7.30 so you can get coffee or tea or even some dinner if you are on your way home from work.

Sligo
Unwind meet every Tuesday night in the lobby of the Clarion Hotel from 7.30p.m. Just bring yourself and what you are working on, they would love to see you!