03 PM | 22 Jan

History of the #pussyhat #project [#geekgirl]

Knit 1, Protest 2.

“I wanted to do something more than just show up,” said Krista Suh the 29-year-old screenwriter who lives in downtown Los Angeles, recalling how her professors at the all-female Barnard College in New York City urged her to think about problems. “How can I visually show someone what’s going on? And I realized as a California girl, I would be really cold in D.C. — it’s not tank-top weather year-round. So I thought maybe I could knit myself a hat.”

And so the “pussyhat project” was born. Knitters — mostly women — started crafting handmade pink caps with cat ears, a reference to Trump’s vulgar statements about grabbing women’s genitals, which were revealed in a leaked video shortly before the election.

What started as a project among Suh, Jayna Zweiman and other friends at the Little Knittery in Los Angeles’ Atwater Village section turned into a global movement. Knitting groups at yarn stores, cafes and coffee shops from Seattle to Martha’s Vineyard churned out hats, and craft stores have reported a run on pink yarn. As word spread on social media, thousands of hats — knit with skeins of thick magenta or fuchsia yarn — have been made around the world, including in Australia and Austria.

Krista Suh, left, and Jayna Zweiman, right, co-creators of the "pussyhat," are photographed with Kat Coyle on Jan. 6, 2017 at The Little Knittery in Atwater Village, Calif. (Mel Melcon/Los Angeles Times/TNS) Krista Suh, left, and Jayna Zweiman, right, co-creators of the “pussyhat,” are photographed with Kat Coyle

Source: SF Examiner

 For patterns: The Pussyhat Project

03 PM | 20 Dec

104-year-old Grace Brett might be the world’s oldest #Street #Artist [#geekgirl]

Grace Brett

Grace Brett, who is 104-years-old, might look the epitome of sweet, elderly innocence– but there’s an actual possibility that she might just be the oldest street artist in the world.

Women from Selkirk, Ettrickbridge and Yarrow, in the Scottish Borders who are a team of “guerrilla knitters” .

But while she isn’t tagging walls with graffiti cans, the great-grandmother is part of a group of ‘yarnstormers’ who are covering monuments with adorable knitted designs in the Scottish county of borders.

Source: Metro