Beth Ditto

Portland is a place where you can find a community as a feminist, a vegan or a fat activist. Artists, musicians, knitters, and filmmakers can all meet like-minded souls. It's proved the perfect place for me and all my punk friends.

American Musician

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

There are twice as many knitters as golfers in North America. Still, if you walk into any airport in North America, you can find a golf magazine but not a knitting magazine, even though you can't golf on a plane.

Writer

When people see me knitting, I tell them I'm a knitter. Not the sort of knitter they may have run into before, but a passionate, constant, deliberate knitter. I knit everyday, all the time, everywhere I go.

The only difference between an experienced knitter and new knitter is that the experienced knitter makes bigger mistakes faster. Be bold; there are no terrible consequences in knitting.

Once in a while, I bump into a knitter, and we have a lovely conversation. But if you figure out the number of people who know me and the people who don't, it's really a small number.

The people who think I'm famous are knitters. Most of my life, I'm wildly unrecognized.

Rachel Khoo

Mum is a fantastic knitter - she taught me, too, but I can only manage simple things.

British Chef

I do know that there isn't ever going to be a time when there aren't any knitters.

Knitters use knitting to value-add to the world.

Understand 'knitter' often relates to hobbies and hand-made crafts, not industrial processes.

Craft Context

'Knitter' can refer to any gender, despite traditional associations with women.

Gender Neutral

Knitters can be 'professional', 'amateur', or 'skilled' according to their experience.

Skill Levels

 and most of the time we hold a controller or a cell phone. And I'm totally guilty of this as well. But if you think about it, what would happen if you put those things down? What would you make? What would you create with your own hands? A lot of people think that I am a master knitter but I actually couldn't knit a sweater to save my life.

How yarn bombing grew...

 made to fit me and I'm going to actually miss it I was putting it on today and it feels like my dress you know it feels really great it is it amazing it got people breaking down costumes on one side and making them on another and they're um they've got knitters they've

Designing the Costumes PIPE...

 from passive consumers to creators to highly enabled collaborators what's happening is the internet is removing the middleman so that anyone from a t-shirt designer to a knitter can make a