Donna Air, the Middletons and the case of the missing knitting.

“Donna Air, who has been linked to James Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge’s younger brother, always told Mandrake that she wasn’t ready for knitting and slippers,” says the Telegraph.

Oh Donna. Don’t you know you can shag the hell out of a Middleton and STILL dabble in a bit of knit one, purl one?

Mia Wasikowska needs lessons in cool.

“I love knitting. Oops, maybe I shouldn’t have said that, it’s not good for my image,” femalefirst.co.uk reports.

Whatevs Wasik, whatevs.

Craft your own Olympians (and Beckham)

Knit Usain Bolt.

Cross stitch David Beckham.

Knit Jessica Ennis.

Knit Cathy Freeman.

Cross stitch Ryan Giggs.

(For all your Olympian knitting needs, you need The Olympknits or The Knitlympics.)

Craft tattoos: part 1

You know I love craft. And you might know I’m a huge fan of tattoos too. So here’s the latest from the Tattooed Knitters and Crocheters group on Ravelry.

Part two and three coming in the next days …

A couple of brilliant wordy tattoos

From AmayzingGrace

From YarnPiggy

And, of course, some yarn and a stoat.

Via AbbyNormal2

 

Amaze Olympknit shizzle.

Because, y’know, OlymPICS rhymes with OlymKNITS.(I only know this because of the book of the same name, published by David and Charles)

(via The Telegraph).

 

It seems celebrity mothers are all over this knitting malarkey.

Lily Allen is at it now she’s all shacked up, and so is Pink.

Not so keen on the ‘slebs swap rock lifestyle for knitting’ headlines. Knitting is totes rock these days.