Our In-VEST for Peace pattern is featured in "Knitting for Peace," by Betty Christiansen!

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Product Description

All across America, people are knitting for peace. In yarn shops and private homes, churches and synagogues, schools and even prisons, they meet on weekday evenings or weekend afternoons to knit afghans for refugees, mittens for the homeless, socks for soldiers, or preemie caps for AIDS babies. The tradition goes back as far as Martha Washington, who spearheaded knitting efforts for the soldiers of the Revolutionary War, and has seen a recent flourishing in what is nowadays called “charity knitting,” “community knitting,” or “knitting for others.” And whether it’s for world peace, community peace, or peace of mind, today’s various causes have the common goal of knitting the world into a better place one stitch at a time.

Knitting for Peace is an exceptional book that celebrates the long heritage of knitting for others. It tells the stories of 28 contemporary knitting-for-peace endeavors, and features patterns for easy-to-knit charity projects such as hats, socks, blankets, and bears, plus a messenger bag emblazoned with the Knitting for Peace logo. Enlivened by anecdotal sidebars and quotations from both knitters and peacemakers, this inspiring book also includes everything readers need to know to start their own knitting-for-peace groups.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #56329 in Books
• Published on: 2006-10-01
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 132 pages

About the Author
BETTY CHRISTIANSEN is a freelance editor and writer who has knitted since she was eight. She has written articles for the magazines Interweave Knits, Vogue Knitting, and Family Circle Knitting, as well as the books Knitting Yarns and Spinning Tales and KnitLit, Too.

KIRIKO SHIROBAYASHI is an award-winning New York–based photographer whose work has been exhibited at the Houston Center for Photography and the National Museum of Belarus, among other venues. Her work also appears regularly in magazines in the U.S. and abroad.

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Customer Reviews

Hobby
This is a book I purchased for my daughter for Christmas, and she liked it so much, she gave a copy to a friend and recommended it to others; so I thought I should have one also.
It's something I can use to create charitable donations and I enjoy doing it.

great subject
THE GOOD: I like that the narration doesn't leave you feeling overwhelmed but gives you a sense of hope, that you are making a difference in people's lives. I also like that the patterns are simple and easy to understand. It's a nice change of pace from the self-indulgent garment patterns the knitting scene has been inundated with.

THE BAD: I don't want to discredit a book with good intentions based on aesthetics, but I'm surprised no one mentioned that this book absolutely REEKS. I first noticed the smell when flipping through a copy at the bookstore. I sniffed some more, and decided it was a fluke. Then I received my copy from amazon and it also smelled bad. I don't know if it's the type of paper it was printed on or what, but I find it very distracting.

What a great idea
I purchased this book for my mom, and am now going to order one for myself. What a wonderful idea. It's filled with simple, tasteful projects to knit for charity and other organizations. It hooks you up to all of these organizations and makes it so easy to knit the right thing out of the right fiber for each particular charity. Lots of heartwarming stories, too. Thanks for such a generous book!