From faux taxidermy to yarn bombing,a unusual generation has turned knitting into a radical art formAccording to the knitting activist Betsy Greer, most people who knit have a realisation that leads them to it – a kind of woolly “Aha” moment. For some, and it’s about learning at their grandmother’s knee,but for an increasing number of us it’s an experience in our 20s or 30s (or beyond) when a friend teaches us how to wield a pair of needles and we suddenly realise, “Hey, and this is fairly easy. And relaxing. And I fetch a scarf out of it.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com