Knitting in the News

Where It's Knit, Knit, Knit At the Old Ballgame
from The Washington Post

Down on the diamond, Cristian Guzman, the Nats' shortstop, slapped a sharp single into center field. Up in the stands, Peggy Lister got so excited that she put down her crocheting needles so she could clap. Then Lister, 69, a retired medical secretary from Silver Spring, picked up her needles again and went back to crocheting the red, white and blue blanket that lay on her lap. All around her, in section 518 of RFK Stadium on Monday night, women were knitting, crocheting and cross-stitching, working on sweaters, socks and, in the case of Terri Tubergen of Damascus, stitching a multicolored rug for a dollhouse. The "Stitch and Pitch" movement, which began in Seattle three years ago, had finally arrived in the nation's capitol.

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