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10 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Join us as we knit with hundreds of knitters around the world.

History of WWKiP Day:
World Wide Knit in Public Day was started in 2005 by Danielle Landes. It began as a way for knitters
to come together and enjoy each other’s company. Knitting is such a solitary act that it’s easy to knit
alone somewhere and sink into your work without thinking about all the other knitters out there.
Neighbors could spend all their lives never knowing that the other knits. This a specific day to get out
of your house and go to a local event (with your knitting in tow) just for you and people like you. Who
knows you might even bump into your neighbor! Consider this a spark, to ignite a fire; getting all of
the closeted knitters out into fresh air.
WWKiP Day is unique, in that it’s the largest knitter run event in the world. Each local event is put
together by a volunteer or a group of volunteers. They each organize an event because they want to,
not because they have to. They bring their own fresh ideas into planning where the event should be
held, and what people would like to do. If it weren’t for these volunteer hosts, WWKiP Day would still
just be an idea.
In the past some people have used this event as a means to show the general public that ‘not only
grannies knit!’ and while that’s great and all, we should keep in mind that without those ‘grannies’ we
wouldn’t have the wealth of knitting knowledge that we do.
WWKiP Day is really about showing the general public that knitting can be a community activity in a
very distinct way. In some places there are many different knitting groups that never interact with
each other, on WWKiP Day they come together in one place, making them hard to miss. WWKIP day is not exclusive to knitting, it’s open to all fiber crafts.

Bring chair, lunch and fiber project.

Rain or Shine.

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COST:

No cost

BROUGHT TO YOU BY: Centre Knitters Guild
WEBSITE: http://www.centreknittersguild.com