Cambodia Knits is looking for an Accountant/Stock person. Do you have the right skill and interest in helping provide employment in poor communities? Have a look at the Job Description and send your CV and cover letter to info@cambodiaknits.com.Click here to download. Deadline is March 29, 2013.
Cambodia Knits has moved office. We’re still inside of Netpro Cambodia and you can find us at House 116, Street 113. We’re just across the Toul Sleng Genocide Museum, almost opposite the former entrance gate. You can find us by looking for the bright orange gate.
Introducing our first ever knitting pattern: Twitter. Designer Thelma Egberts contacted us a few month ago and offered us this pattern to sell and raise money for Cambodia Knits. Thelma is known in the knitting world for her very popular Dead Fish Hat, which was featured on Knitty and which you can find here. You [...]
Last year, our friend and supporter, Veronica Sherman, asked us to re-design our monkeys to include long legs and magnetic arms. With her guidance, we developed the long leg monkeys which were only available for sale with bags, also of her design. The magnet monkeys proved to be very popular and she’s since given us [...]
We haven’t posted this earlier, but since February, CK finger puppets have been available in Melbourne. The wonderful Fiona Burnes visited our workshop back in January and gave a crochet lesson to our staff. She loved the finger puppets she decided to stock them at her cute store in Kensington. Have a look at her [...]
For all of you in Phnom Penh who like taking a walk along the Riverside, we now have a store selling CK products just there. Welcome to the CK family V Silk. The shop sells a variety of silks and other made in Cambodia products. It’s at House #221 on Sisowath Quay, about 4 blocks [...]
Announcing a new sales locations for CK goodies: Happy Silk. Happy Silk is located on Street 178, just down from the Riverside and around the corner from the FCC. So you can get yourself a handful of finger puppets before heading upstairs for a drink while watching the sunset and playing with your new friends.
Last week I visited the Kilometer 7 community where four of our very first knitters live. Since the week before, Rony and Tyna have been working from home and we wanted to assess what their working conditions were like at home. I was particularly worried about lighting and wanted to see how we can help [...]
Last year, a friend who had visited the workshop, showed our finger puppets to the director of the pre school where she worked in Australia. The school director decided to buy a CK finger puppet for every student in the school as a present. Below are a couple photo of one happy and very satisfied [...]
I was very surprised upon my return from holidays in Canada to find our accountant, Vandet, knitting. Not only knitting, but knitting a monster, in the round, and with great skill. I asked him what was going on and what compelled him to learn how to knit. He told me the knitters in the office [...]