Knitting with Company

Come on Wednesday July 7th at 2:30 pm to meet Dani Cortez. She will be visiting us on her Craft Culture Summer Tour and she wants to meet as many knitters as she can to talk about crafting across America.

Have you ever wondered what it is about the crafting world (and crafters) that seems to give us common threads (no pun intended) across large swaths of time and distance? What holds us together, even in different regions? What are the differences between a punk rock stitch & bitch in Seattle versus a small prayer shawl ministry in the heart of the south?

Dani Cortez, the host of the Craft Culture podcast will be visiting Wool and Company on July 7 on the first leg of a cross-country tour and would love to talk with YOU about your crafty lives and groups! This leg of what will eventually be a worldwide tour is focused primarily on knitting and spinning, and Dani plans to visit with local yarn stores, stitch & bitches, knit nights, prayer shawl ministries, and knitters on the street (among others). That means YOU could be a part of this tour!

She’ll be blogging her progress as she travels from pristine Anchorage, Alaska to Greensboro, North Carolina, as well as doing videos and podcasts highlighting her adventures. And it’s all for a good cause — the data she collects will be used for either a section of an upcoming book or a book in its entirety about the sociological and cultural impact of modern handcrafts. We’ve always known, as crafters, that what we do can impact and change both ourselves and the world around us, and now, Dani’s looking to document it firsthand.

We will have refreshments, and a couple of drawings for some cool crafty things … so make sure you come.