knitnotwar 1,0o0

Felted Crane Pattern Donation to MercyCorps

2011-11-07T06:59:00.000-08:00

Thank you to everyone who downloaded the pattern and contributed to MercyCorps, working with longstanding partner Peace Winds. We have sent over $300 to help families affected by the disaster in Japan.

Felted Crane for Japan-- Mercy Corps

2011-03-30T10:31:00.000-07:00

The felted crane pattern is available for free many places including here at this website (click on PATTERN PDF on the right of the screen under LINKS), on Ravelry, as well as in several books. However, due to the number of emails that I have received regarding the project in the wake of the recent tragedies in Japan, I have placed the pattern for sale on Ravelry, all proceeds from your donation to benefit Mercy Corps:

http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/felted-crane-for-japan---mercy-corp

Please also consider knitting up these sweet cranes to sell to benefit the relief effort, or if you would like to begin your own knitnotwar 1,o0o project by organizing knitters to knit 1,000 cranes, or for more information, please write me-- Seann McKeel: knitnotwar@gmail.com

Finished single cranes are beautiful when hung with a strand of yarn and some simple beads, or in a small stranded flock...if you are making cranes to sell for Mercy Corps please do send photos to me, I will place them on this website. To donate directly to the relief effort, visit Mercy Corps at:

https://www.mercycorps.org/donate/japan

Peace and prayer,
Seann

YOU ARE THE CHOSEN ONE

2011-02-11T09:03:00.000-08:00

ANNOUNCING A NEW COMMUNITY KNITTING PROJECT

Knit a 12 inch x 12 inch square and send along with your story.
Visit www.youarethechosenone.com to RSVP a space & for more information.

Help knit the billboard. Completed, the project will be a 10 foot x 10 foot
mural that reads "You Are The Chosen One."

Questions/information, contact Seann McKeel: knitnotwar@gmail.com

BEGINNING KNITTERS WELCOME.
What makes you the chosen one? What were you chosen to do?

PROJECT MADE POSSIBLE BY THE REGIONAL ARTS & CULTURE COUNCIL

beautiful photos

2010-11-22T20:53:00.000-08:00

just received some beautiful photos that my friend Autumn de Wilde took of the project while she was in Portland, thank you Autumn!

knitnotwar 1,o0o at The Knitting Nest in Austin, Texas

2010-08-19T19:49:00.000-07:00

The cranes are currently on display at The Knitting Nest in Austin, Texas. Thank you to Stacy Klaus, a major supporter of the project/knitting participant in knitnotwar 1,o0o!

omfgco photos-thank you

2010-06-29T11:17:00.000-07:00

knitnotwar 1,o0o at Ace Hotel Portland

2010-06-03T07:23:00.000-07:00

knitnotwar 1,o0o (complete)

2010-06-01T16:39:00.000-07:00

viewing and reception: June 3, 2010 from 7-9pm in the lobby of the Ace Hotel at 1022 SW Stark

Knitnotwar 1,o0o—a public art installation displaying a thousand knit cranes, celebrating the quiet logic of peace. More than a hundred artists contributed to knitting one thousand origami style cranes, to be displayed through the weekend of June 3rd in the lobby of Ace Hotel in Portland, Oregon. See the installation and join us for green tea and snacks in the lobby of Ace Hotel on First Thursday, June 3rd from 7-9pm.

The origami crane is an international symbol of peace, due to the hopeful and heroic story of Sadako Sasaki. Sadako died of Leukemia after exposure from US atom bombings of Hiroshima in 1945. Believing a Japanese legend that anyone who folds a thousand paper cranes will be granted a wish, Sadako hoped to get well. She completed over 1,000 folded cranes before dying on October 25, 1955 at the age of 12. Thousands of artists, children, religious groups, and other organizations commit to folding strands of a thousand cranes every year to express their commonality in belief of banning nuclear weapons-- their solidarity for peace.

knitnotwar 1,0o0 contributers:

Georgia Lee Hussey
Gina Tichener
Guinevere Cuthbert
Vienna Cuthbert
Octavia Cuthbert
Zavan Cuthbert
Christine
Cindy Abernethy
Bethany Pratt
Meg Kelly
Tonya Willis
Marilyn Kontz
Carson Ellis
Jori McKeel
Seann McKeel
Nancy Skinner
Amee Bahr
Schafer
Anne Allen
Monica Saur
Anna Kitchin
Sarah Murphy
Ellen Harpin
Lise Mendel
Connie Rasmussen
Susan St. Aubon
Kate Wilbanks
Becky Williams
Jean Bond-Slaughter
Larissa Brown
Theresa Stein
Brenda Jansgard
Michelle Gibson
Eva Berghall
Marleigh Mathiot
Patti Hodges
Stacy Klaus
Peggy Piers
Ann Fitzgibbon
Blair Stewart
Ellen Dishman
Sonya Artis
Ina
Celeste Douville
George Duvoisin
Christine Rutan
Noriko Kawakami Rutan
Monica Teem
Leslie Sudock
Lorell Miller
Jenn Burch
Patti Burch
Linea King
Barb Swanner
Pamela Munro
Becky Williams
Ginny Stay
Lani
Mary McKenzie
Maureen Parolini
Francis Jane Baker
Gretchen Smith
Anne Meixner
Judy
Edina Tien
Shanta Schriever
Denise Phillips
Lucy Holmes
Rebecca Swanner
Jodi Kansagor
Mary Bowman-Kruhn
Kurt B Reighley
Adelle Tilton
Barbara White
Karen Reitz
Eleanor
Christine Austin
Amy Klatt
Suzy Holland
Louise Guerin
Jenn Jarvis
Amy Kelly
Wendy Jones
Robin Sappington
Mary Ann Brennan
Tami Hawes
Liz Baker
Alice Burnham
Michelle Bradley
Gray Sea Pietrok
Sarah Dykes
Karen Lauterwasser

Nancy Wentworth and the children of Two Rivers Montessori School

The Knitters of Lint
The Knitters of Tangle
The Knitters of Close Knit
The Knitters of Knit Purl

*if you contributed to the project and do not see your name here/or there is a correction, please write: knitnotwar@gmail.com

cranes in spring

2010-05-11T11:56:00.000-07:00

ten just received

2010-02-19T21:43:00.000-08:00

keep them coming, almost there...

sixty

2010-01-06T20:12:00.000-08:00

sixty small cranes to go-- The Peace Promotion Division of The City of Hiroshima 市民局平和推進課 will be hanging the final project in one of the booths (for displaying folded cranes) surrounding the Children's Peace Monument. After the Portland display is hung they will be sent-- stay tuned! If you're knitting more, here's a challenge for you to keep them as small as possible-- cheers to trying to keep the size down so that Knitnotwar 1,0o0 fits in the booth sweetly!

Thank you Knit Purl-ers!

2009-09-18T10:01:00.000-07:00

Knit Purl (www.knit-purl.com) has hosted a variety of Knitnotwar 1,0o0 events for the past few months to help complete the project-- we have 929 cranes, only 71 to go!

Thank you Knit Purl! Please do write to me if you are sending cranes or would like to knit more, we are almost there...

Knit Purl Hosts Knitnotwar 1,0o0!

2009-01-29T15:38:00.000-08:00

If you are in Portland, please join knitters at Knit Purl, a fantastic knitting boutique in downtown Portland, for two knitnotwar Nights (Feb. 4th & Mar. 4th) as they help complete the project by donating the 300 cranes needed to finish the project. You can see cranes from the project in one of their lovely windows throughout the month of February.
Knit Purl: 1101 SW Alder Portland, Oregon 97205 (www.knit-purl.com)

2008-08-28T11:32:00.000-07:00

Knitalong: Celebrating the Tradition of Knitting Together

2008-07-03T11:39:00.000-07:00

Check out "Knitalong: Celebrating the Tradition of Knitting Together", a new book by Larissa Brown and Martin John Brown. Knitnotwar 1,0o0 is featured in the chapter titled "Knitting in War and Peace".

*Recieved 5 more cranes yesterday-- currently we are at 710, hope to have the remaining 290 by election day, please spread the word!

Project Update Soon...

2008-01-29T10:47:00.000-08:00

Thank you all for your patience, my apologies that the site was down for a spell. I fear my secret is out-- I am a knitting lady, not a computer lady. Stay tuned...

project update!

2007-08-01T10:51:00.000-07:00

Hello everyone, I hope you all are having a happy summer and are not finding it too warm to knit!

I have promised several friends and knitters that I would post a project update!: The deadline for cranes has been extended-- so many folks have asked for more time that it was impossible not to. As the new deadline approaches, September 1, hundreds of lovely cranes are pouring into the mailbox. From the sounds of it, however, more than a few folks have had to set down their needles on the project and I may have to once again extend the deadline as I find more knitters to fill their RSVP spaces (we shall see, between non-RSVPers sending cranes and myself we just may make 1,000!) If all the cranes make it in by September 1, the date for the final install shall be set and I'll email the time/place to all!

In the meantime, check out the Summer 2007 issue of Vogue Knitting 'Knit 1 Magazine' there is a lovely artcle on the project with some pretty pictures to boot! If you're in Portland, stop by 'Close Knit' (2140 NE Alberta) where the cranes are currently on display.

Thanks to everyone who is participating in 'knitnotwar 1,0o0' and thank you also for your patience-- I'll send updates as they materialize!

Happy Summer Knitting!
Seann

RSVP Deadline

2007-03-09T19:41:00.000-08:00

Hello All,
The RSVP deadline for cranes, March 1st, has passed (though a few more knitters have squeezed in!) I'm happy to say we have over 1,000 cranes pledged and the project looks amazing. Please visit back to the blog for updated photos-- I have been receiving crane donations every week in the mail-- the strand is growing steadily. Thank you everyone who has been involved and stay tuned for the announcement of knitnotwar's final display space. As always, please do be in touch if you have any questions, I'm happy to offer help in knitting/felting/the pattern/or advice in setting up your own 'knitnotwar' project!

Thank you,
Seann McKeel

Fuzzy detail-- Tangle Knitting Studio

2007-03-09T19:37:00.000-08:00

The first 100 cranes at Tangle Knitting Studio

2007-03-09T19:33:00.000-08:00

2007-01-10T22:47:00.000-08:00

http://orate.decemberists.com/files/side_smallest_121.jpg

The knitnotwar 1,0o0 project

2007-01-05T20:17:00.000-08:00

knitnotwar 1,0o0—a display of a thousand knitted cranes, involves a large number of artists, crafters, knitters and others in a large scale, community based, public art installation-- celebrating the quiet logic of peace. More than a hundred artists will knit one thousand origami style cranes, to be displayed late 2007 in Portland, Oregon.

The origami crane is an international symbol of peace, due to the hopeful and heroic story of Sadako Sasaki. Sadako died of Leukemia after exposure from US atom bombings of Hiroshima in 1945. Following a Japanese legend of folding 1,000 paper cranes-- a kind of prayer for long life and recovery-- Sadako hoped to get well. She completed over 1,000 folded cranes before dying on October 25, 1955 at the age of 12. Thousands of artists, children, religious groups, and other organizations commit to folding strands of a thousand cranes every year to express their commonality in banning nuclear weapons-- their solidarity for peace.

To reach the goal of a thousand cranes, pledge to donate 10 (RSVP deadline March 1, actual donation deadline May 1, 2007), or organize a group of knitters and pledge 100! You can get the pattern PDF here (to the right of the screen-- I print page one, flip it over in the printer and print page two-- it makes a nice pamphlety sort of document). Please do email me if you have questions!

Happy knitting,

Seann

fuzzy picture of a fuzzy crane

2006-12-30T20:30:00.000-08:00

Thank you for the patience with the site.

2006-12-23T22:32:00.000-08:00

I want to apologize for the wackiness in the email address and web address..please note:

BEFORE: knitnowar.com/knitnowar@gmail.com
AFTER: knitnotwar.com/knitnotwar@gmail.com

I had to change the name of the project back to it's original title, I'm sorry for the inconvenience! Please do get in touch if you have questions about the pattern or the project in general!

Thank you,
Seann McKeel