Experience: Extreme Knitting!

Crafting is seeing a resurgence, even in today's weak economy. Consumers looking for more home based activities and new ways to socialize with friends means crafts that can be done in groups, such as knitting, embroidery and crochet are the new "in" thing. Enter Extreme Knitting. This trend takes knitting to new heights, creating new products, new shapes and even new purposes for knitted products.


These Flocks produces great interior home products and furniture from knitted designs:

Extreme Knitters Rock the Yarn was a radio feature on NPR about knitting becoming a new form of graffiti as people leave knitted "tags" around town or knit with inventive materials, such as fiberglass.

Rachel John in the UK sells giant knitting needles and supplies for this extreme knitting craze.

KnitKnit is a New York City magazine for obsessive knitters featuring traditional craft merging with contemporary art.

Selvedge is a magazine out of England that is dedicated to beautiful hand crafts, arts and textiles.

via: Apartment Therapy