Knitting snippets from around the globe

Did you know…?

• When knitting was first introduced as a working industry, only males were allowed to take part. Women were even banned from joining the first knitting union, which was established in 1527.

• The fastest knitter in the world, Miriam Tegels, can hand knit an amazing 118 stitches in just 60 seconds!

• In 2012, over three thousand enthusiastic knitters came together to set the world record for the most people knitting at the same time.

• Rather than wool, the most common knitting materials used in the first five hundred years