WWW for January 7, 2009

Happy new year, fiber fans!



Spotted on Jacquie Blackman's blog, a crazy post at Apartment Therapy about Extreme Knitting! No kidding. These needles make US#19s look like toothpicks.



Making the rounds in the blogosphere is mention of this: Kniittiing, a Wii-based knitting game. The technology behind the idea is really neat, but when I knit, I want to actually create something more than a high score. :)



For the geek knitter [I raise my hand here], a pattern for you...it's Wash's sweater, based on one seen in two Firefly episodes! Happy shiny knitting!



Spinners! It seems that Ashford has taken a page from Louet and Majacraft and now offers a sliding hook flyer!



More spinny news! Grafton Fibers has started offering exclusive monthly shipments of fiber that is different than the usual [gorgeous] Grafton batts. Sounds yummy!



Our friends at Artfibers are -- sadly -- closing their San Francisco destination retail shop on January 24th, but there is still lots of good Artfibers news.

First, their website will remain open for business in 2009 and beyond.

And there will be a new East Bay location for sales, learning, and special events that will open in April '09. So we won't have to go without Artfibers goodness after all! Yay!



In case you missed it, Knitty started Tweeting -- publishing tiny updates on Twitter. Find the Knitty update page here and start following along.



Happy new year to you all! May this year bring you all you wish for, and bring us all happiness, peace and comfort.