Blog & Latest News Check in here for our latest news! The first ever CK newsletter! June 14, 2010 That’s right, it’s here. Download the PDF for your reading... Cables, not the networking kind June 10, 2010 Moving right along to a new technique, the CK knitters have mastered cables. Cables are one of the easiest knitting decorations to learn, but they look complicated and so pretty. Again, this is for a our future bracelet line. In other news, the accountant called in sick this morning... Weird and wonderful yarns June 4, 2010 Photos of playing around with fun, funky and a little crazy yarns: These are yarns I bought at the dollar store in Canada in January, mainly to give the knitters more exposure to different textures of fiber and novelty yarns. Also, just to see how they knit... Bracelets June 3, 2010 We’re continuing to play around with lace patterns and spent yesterday morning making bracelets. The results are below. And here you, dear reader, have a job to do. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to make some constructive comments (especially, but not only, if you are... New products coming! May 28, 2010 A long, long, long time ago I started teaching the knitters (and myself) lace knitting. It wasn’t really that long ago, a few months, but there were some setbacks. The past month though, we’ve been pounding away at it and are now in the process of thinking about a... Long Term Impact of Cambodia Weddings May 27, 2010 Cambodian weddings are usually annoying. This might sound culturally insensitive, but truth is that even many Cambodians agree with this statement and so do certainly the majority of expats. How, you might ask, could a wedding, a joyous occasion be annoying? Let me explain. The most common wedding takes... The Media May 6, 2010 CK has been getting a lot of attention lately, which is very nice. It all started when I was invited to join a social networking site for social enterprises. That particular site, I won’t mention any names, didn’t turn out to be too good, but I thought I’d have... The Good, The Bad and the Funny May 3, 2010 A slightly un-knitty post today but a look into life in Cambodia. I give you: The Good Yesterday was the Royal Ploughing ceremony, my favourite of all Cambodian celebrations! This is more than good, it’s fantastic: the annual Royal Ploughing Ceremony. Each year, the royal oxen are paraded around... A Day of Learning April 30, 2010 A lot has happened at the CK office in the past few weeks. This is part of the reason for the silence on the blog. We had to let go of one of our original knitters as it came to light that she was not on the same page... Help CK grow! April 14, 2010 We’re growing to a new stage and we need your help to get there! Cambodia Knits is excited to announce that we’ll soon be working with Caritas in Toul Sambo to set up a full knitting workshop right in the community. Caritas are building new housing and community spaces,... CK in Australia April 10, 2010 Canberra to be specific. Last month when we were en route to Sydney, (and nearly missed our flight because we forgot that Singapore was one hour ahead and while happily checking emails using Singapore airport’s free wireless service at what we thought was 6:45pm with lots of time until... More new stuff! April 8, 2010 Since the beginning I have been thinking about how to best display finger puppets for sale. Way back when, I did a search for finger puppet displays and one that looked great was the chopsticks in vase options which we have been using since. It’s a cheap, easy option... New Price tags April 7, 2010 We’re getting more and more settled into the new space. Next step is to formalize the retail area in the front, but the knitters recently moved forward from the back of the room because the fan is better there. And I can understand! With the daily temperature hitting above... The new office March 30, 2010 Oh la la! It’s been a long time coming, but finally, here are some photos of our new office/workshop. Apologies for the long absence, but we’ve been too busy to post anything here until now. That doesn’t mean we’re not busy at the moment, but I have some time... Australia Bound March 8, 2010 Sorry for the silence the past couple weeks, but its been busy. There is lots to write about, but I’ll start with our upcoming trip to Australia. We’ll be flying into Sydney on March 18th, heading to Canberra area for a wedding on the 20th and then finish off... Cinderella February 22, 2010 And now, for our fourth and final sales location in Siem Reap: Cinderella. The shop is located near Red Pizza in the Old Market area of the city. Samneang, our accountant (shared with NETPRO-Cambodia, but I always joke with him that working for us is so much better), is... Ryun Patterson February 21, 2010 My good friend Eric Vandenbrink sent my daughter Sotheary an awesome Cambodia Knits animal for Christmas–she loves it! She loves it! And her grandma, who just moved here to Chicago from PP in August, was proud that her granddaughter had such a righteous toy to play with that was... Helena Barkla February 21, 2010 I just wanted to say that my kids received a set of these puppets for christmas, and they absolutely LOVE them … so well-made, really fun and such a worthy cause. Well done!!! Helena Barkla, Canada... « Previous Page 1 2 3 4 5 6 … 9 Next Page »
The first ever CK newsletter! June 14, 2010 That’s right, it’s here. Download the PDF for your reading...
Cables, not the networking kind June 10, 2010 Moving right along to a new technique, the CK knitters have mastered cables. Cables are one of the easiest knitting decorations to learn, but they look complicated and so pretty. Again, this is for a our future bracelet line. In other news, the accountant called in sick this morning...
Weird and wonderful yarns June 4, 2010 Photos of playing around with fun, funky and a little crazy yarns: These are yarns I bought at the dollar store in Canada in January, mainly to give the knitters more exposure to different textures of fiber and novelty yarns. Also, just to see how they knit...
Bracelets June 3, 2010 We’re continuing to play around with lace patterns and spent yesterday morning making bracelets. The results are below. And here you, dear reader, have a job to do. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to make some constructive comments (especially, but not only, if you are...
New products coming! May 28, 2010 A long, long, long time ago I started teaching the knitters (and myself) lace knitting. It wasn’t really that long ago, a few months, but there were some setbacks. The past month though, we’ve been pounding away at it and are now in the process of thinking about a...
Long Term Impact of Cambodia Weddings May 27, 2010 Cambodian weddings are usually annoying. This might sound culturally insensitive, but truth is that even many Cambodians agree with this statement and so do certainly the majority of expats. How, you might ask, could a wedding, a joyous occasion be annoying? Let me explain. The most common wedding takes...
The Media May 6, 2010 CK has been getting a lot of attention lately, which is very nice. It all started when I was invited to join a social networking site for social enterprises. That particular site, I won’t mention any names, didn’t turn out to be too good, but I thought I’d have...
The Good, The Bad and the Funny May 3, 2010 A slightly un-knitty post today but a look into life in Cambodia. I give you: The Good Yesterday was the Royal Ploughing ceremony, my favourite of all Cambodian celebrations! This is more than good, it’s fantastic: the annual Royal Ploughing Ceremony. Each year, the royal oxen are paraded around...
A Day of Learning April 30, 2010 A lot has happened at the CK office in the past few weeks. This is part of the reason for the silence on the blog. We had to let go of one of our original knitters as it came to light that she was not on the same page...
Help CK grow! April 14, 2010 We’re growing to a new stage and we need your help to get there! Cambodia Knits is excited to announce that we’ll soon be working with Caritas in Toul Sambo to set up a full knitting workshop right in the community. Caritas are building new housing and community spaces,...
CK in Australia April 10, 2010 Canberra to be specific. Last month when we were en route to Sydney, (and nearly missed our flight because we forgot that Singapore was one hour ahead and while happily checking emails using Singapore airport’s free wireless service at what we thought was 6:45pm with lots of time until...
More new stuff! April 8, 2010 Since the beginning I have been thinking about how to best display finger puppets for sale. Way back when, I did a search for finger puppet displays and one that looked great was the chopsticks in vase options which we have been using since. It’s a cheap, easy option...
New Price tags April 7, 2010 We’re getting more and more settled into the new space. Next step is to formalize the retail area in the front, but the knitters recently moved forward from the back of the room because the fan is better there. And I can understand! With the daily temperature hitting above...
The new office March 30, 2010 Oh la la! It’s been a long time coming, but finally, here are some photos of our new office/workshop. Apologies for the long absence, but we’ve been too busy to post anything here until now. That doesn’t mean we’re not busy at the moment, but I have some time...
Australia Bound March 8, 2010 Sorry for the silence the past couple weeks, but its been busy. There is lots to write about, but I’ll start with our upcoming trip to Australia. We’ll be flying into Sydney on March 18th, heading to Canberra area for a wedding on the 20th and then finish off...
Cinderella February 22, 2010 And now, for our fourth and final sales location in Siem Reap: Cinderella. The shop is located near Red Pizza in the Old Market area of the city. Samneang, our accountant (shared with NETPRO-Cambodia, but I always joke with him that working for us is so much better), is...
Ryun Patterson February 21, 2010 My good friend Eric Vandenbrink sent my daughter Sotheary an awesome Cambodia Knits animal for Christmas–she loves it! She loves it! And her grandma, who just moved here to Chicago from PP in August, was proud that her granddaughter had such a righteous toy to play with that was...
Helena Barkla February 21, 2010 I just wanted to say that my kids received a set of these puppets for christmas, and they absolutely LOVE them … so well-made, really fun and such a worthy cause. Well done!!! Helena Barkla, Canada...
