Just a quick update: I am free from the shackles of academia! I sent in my final dissertation yesterday afternoon and put away all the study material today. What a relief!! More tomorrow on CK, but for now take some time to read this article about a young man in India who has taken it [...]

Things are hectic as I am trying to get the products ready to go to the shops, organize the training at Toul Sambo and complete my MSc. dissertation which is due next Friday but needs to be sent off by Monday afternoon. Most of my focus is on the last one but I try to [...]

We went back out to the community today to make sure that everyone that is interested has a pair of needles. Quite a few of the people we met on Friday had kept going over the weekend and we saw a few finished pieces of all garter and some stocking stitch! Some of them were [...]

Sponsor a Knitter – Support a livelihood You could help a struggling community help itself, stitch by stitch! Cambodia Knits is hoping to find sponsors to support knitters-to-be through a three-week basic knitting training period. Starting October 19, 2009, Cambodia Knits will be training members of the community at Toul Sambo, Cambodia. Once trained, participants [...]

Needles galore and mini-yarn balls for Toul Sambo: Deep sigh of relief. This morning on the drive out to Toul Sambo I had many worries floating around in my head. Not having enough needles, not being sure how many people would want to sign up for training, the yarn being too thin for teaching, the [...]