Toronto Craft Alert

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Artist Robyn Love, is looking for knitters and others who are interested in getting together to ply their craft and talk about their life in the suburbs. She is working on a new project titled, Knitting Sprawl, which is a multi-media project exploring issues around the idea of community in Canadian suburban neighborhoods. Love will be traveling across Canada over the next year and a half, organizing and connecting with knitting groups for a series of conversations about the current state of suburbia in Canada. The project also includes photography, video and a range of needlework pieces: one for each area she visits. Knitting Sprawl is funded, in part, by the Canada Council on the Arts.

Here is a very loose schedule:

Mid-August – St. John’s (and when I mention a major city, I really mean just outside of that city)
early Sept – possibly Halifax
Sept 14 -19 – Montreal (NOTE: Still looking for connections in Montreal! S’il vous plait?)
Sept 20 – 28 – Toronto (Have connections in Peterborough, and Waterloo/Wellington. Maybe Sioux Lookout, but I have to look at the map)
late winter/early spring 2010 – Vancouver area

So there are some gaps – I am hoping to get to Calgary and Winnipeg and maybe Saskatoon.

If you are interested in participating, please contact Robyn at thehousemuseum@gmail.com. To learn more about Knitting Sprawl, follow her blog (http://myfairisle.blogspot.com/2009/06/knitting-sprawl.html)