Have you heard about the incredible popular so-called “knitwit”? Knitwit is the name of several different knitted related things and phenomena. One of them is a sister site of the bigger site knittedlandscape.com. This knitwit site is not only concerned with the art of knitting and bead knitting in all its different variations; but is a general site about everything that’s important in life. Knitwit discusses all kinds of subjects, from art, cities, nature and inspiration. What does these subjects have in common and what brings them together? Knitwit does? Then what is knitwit really? Well, knitwit is the art of making knitted items on unexpected places around cities and in nature. It can be around a streetlight, a down pipe or a traffic light, but also on a tree or a stone found in nature. The people who knitwit has formed a real community with s secret mission; to bring forward questions and views in a new way.
Knitwit is inspiring and funny and really makes people take an extra look! It’s like graffiti with yarn! Knitwit combines humor with beauty and reality with imagination. It’s serious in an easily accessible way. No one really knows who started knitwit the first time, the whole thing is surrounded with a little mystery. On the knitwit homepage, people are prompted to go looking for knitwit in their own towns and countries, and to take photographs of these incredible bead knitting patterns and send these images to the knitwit administrators. This way they can upload all the images they get on their site and thus people all over the world can share their experiences of knitwit. You can contribute as well by either knitwit yourself or take photos of others knitwits.
Another meaning of the word knitwit is that it’s a helpful tool you can use when you’re a beginner at bead knitting who wants to lean more and faster. A knitwit in this case is simply a hand held loom which can be used along with most of the types of bead knitting yarn. On the Internet you can read a lot about knitwit, either if it’s the knitwit tool or the knitwit as a social culture trend you’re interested in! The most popular among the knitwit patterns is maybe the knitwit flower pattern. It’s fast and easy since you make a rather small object, but nonetheless very appreciated as a gift. When knitting a knitwit flower you can also choose to use some of the bead knitting patterns to be found for smaller stitch works. If you love knitting and want to be at the edge of the trends, you should definitely learn more about the knitwit phenomena! I did so myself and I can really recommend it.