go to jail and knit

[frotz]

No, not "knit and go to jail". I have a bunch of complicated feelings about craft, fashion, and incarceration, which this basically runs smack into the intersection of; perhaps y'all will also find it interesting. To quote the BBC:

Inmates at a Brazil jail have taken to knitting in an enterprise with a local fashion designer.

Prisoners are taught the art of knitting and crocheting, providing them with valuable new skills which they can use in the outside world.

Mostly it's a video presentation in English:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-22574008

(One of the "you may also enjoy..." links at the end of the video is about yarnbombing in Ireland, which I also found interesting, and much more fun.)

tour de sock?

[katieintheworld]

Is anyone looking at the Tour de Sock? Registration is a $7.50 donation to a Doctors Without Borders fundraiser, and you get 7 sock patterns out of the deal. The contest is to knit the socks first or best or within the deadline and earn points, but additionally you can do it as a team, and as long as everyone in the team completes one pair of socks out of the seven on time you're (as a team) in for the prize drawing.

I don't know if I'm completely committed to speed knitting as a contest, but it seems like the sponsor discounts (Miss Babs, for one!) might easily make up the registration cost!

Just the same, anyone else interested? I might be convinced to join a Dreamwidth team...