Love Knot Hate KNIT-IN
March 8 ~ 1 - 3pm
Celebrate International
Women’s Day
Meet at the corner of State Street & Anapamu Street
Join the Santa Barbara Craftivists and the Fearless Grandmothers on Sunday, March 8 from 1:00 to 3:00pm for a “Resist with Love KNOT Hate” Knit-in.
Bring your current knitting, crochet or stitchery project and sit with us. Bring a folding chair and a hat. Wear your handmade best or other colorful clothing.
If you don’t know how to knit or crochet, no worries! We will teach you how to create a small wearable symbol of love, resistance, and renewal — we will supply patterns & materials.
Bring your friends. Make new friends. Help knit together a community for greater resilience in dark times. We need your joy! We need your color! We need your creativity!
Every Stitch is a stand. every knot is a connection.
Be part of a long tradition of people who have used handicrafts to foster social change.
27th Assembly Dist. (NY), The Woman Suffrage Party, detail of photo from The Woman Citizen, Oct. 6, 1917. These suffragists are knitting for the troops and showing their patriotism as they pursue their goal of gaining the right to vote.
During the regime of Augusto Pinochet in Chile, women played a vital role in resistance efforts. Arpilleras, tapestries depicting atrocities being carried out by the government, became a symbol of protest in a way that was both defiant and protective against the dictatorship of Pinochet, a rule characterised by years of human rights violations.
In defiance of British taxes on textiles and other products, women in the colonies boycotted British-made clothing and created homespun cloth instead. Families and churches held spinning bees, competing to see who could spin the most yarn.
We will KNOT be Unraveled by Fascism.
On March 8 in Washington DC, hundreds of women will take part in a knit-in. Our Santa Barbara knit-in is inspired by their initiative.