Slideshow / interview

The knit-in takes place in a busy downtown park next to Berkeley's Saturday Farmers' market. People stop by to talk, to photograph the knitting in progess, and, sometimes, to interview us. One of our visitors was U.C., Berkeley professor Nancy Van House of the School of Information (formerly the School of Library and Information Studies). She was exploring tools that her students might put use for reporting news and events via cell phones and digital tablets.

Working with software from blurb.com, she put together a colorful slideshow with lots closeups of knitting hands. (Click on the arrows at the right to move through the slides.)

Hearing from other groups

in Cairo, Egypt

in Fukushima, Japan

in New York City, USA

in Washington, D.C., USA

in Newfoundland, Canada

in Syria

in Athens, Greece

in Wales, UK

Articles about the knit-in

Interview with Counter Craft (zine published in New Zealand) - discussion of the intersection between crafts and political protest

Berkeleyside article about Occupy Berkeley camp with photos of the knit-in

Article on the Occupy Berkeley web site

CBS San Francsico coverage - via Digg

More knit-in photos

photos on Flickr

interview / slideshow at www.blurb.com