- FabulousYarn.com
Knitting patterns gone viral! How long before a needlework image joins LOL cats, Annoying Orange and Rebecca Black to become a popular Internet meme?
What once ranked, at least in popular imagination, with reading novels and daydreaming as among the most solitary of human activities is out in public, literally and virtually.
“Knitting has always been social,” said Marsha Asheim, who co-owns A Knitted Peace, the Littleton yarn specialty shop, with Jane Dickinson.
“You can knit by yourself, but people have always knitted with other people at the coffee shop, or a church basement, or wherever. Social knitting groups — that’s about friendships, enjoying people’s company, support and that kind of thing.”
