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Knitting for Peace
Make the World a Better Place
One Stitch at a Time
By Betty Christiansen
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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.
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Hardcover, 132 pgs., $19.95
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