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In the news: Where the fiber arts take you…

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Where will fiber arts take you? For  Michelle Schwengel-Regala, the middle of the Pacific Ocean! Building on her education as a scientific illustrator, and her passion for fiber arts, Michelle became a resident “artist-at-sea” on the research vessel FALKOR out of Hawaii. She knit binary codes, temperature and salinity profile graphs, and sent yarn creations down thousands of feet below the surface. Checkout her wrap-up post here!


Did you have a Street Weaving Day in school?!

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Well, we tip our hats to Cyprus for organizing and celebrating a Street Weaving Day for students! In preparation for World Art Day and the city of Paphos’ upcoming role as Cultural Capital of Europe next year, students all across Cyprus took to the streets to create woven and other fiber-arts installations. Ah, super jealous! We need more people weaving in the streets…


Speaking of Yarn and education…

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The ways that knitters and other yarn lovers share and inspire others is… well… inspiring! Here is a wonderful example from the UK, where a group of knitters organized to knit internal organs for educational models. The fun-to-handle organs are used to teach primary school students about their bodies and healthy living… Turns out the knitters learned a thing or two too! If you can stomach it, no kidney, it’ll warm your heart :-)

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