Editing Guerilla Knitting (section)

===Knowledge===

The first interview with Rénia was on the phone, from this interview I noted the important and most interesting things. She told me that she has arthritis and that it is sometimes hard to knit (I will go deeper on this aspect -> the prototype). She also appears to be inventive with connecting patches together and shares this with her colleagues. She taught Betty to stitch with a contrast, so that there will arise an edge between the patches. 

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The knitted pieces are made at home and will later on be attached at a chosen location which they think is quite dull and could use a cheer up. Not only for that location and object, but also for the people who come by every day. 

For the second interview I emailed Betty, but we kept on mailing afterwards where she gave me new information. Betty told me she has a self-taught technique that does not give her pain in her hands. After I asked her how the technique works, she found a tutorial of the technique on the internet. It is called: Continental Knitting. With this technique she does not need to do a special movement with the thread and therefore she has to hold the 
garment a bit different. This saves some motion in the hands and no pain. 

[[file:continental.jpg|continental.jpg]]

I was also interested in the way they wrap the knittings to a pole or fence. Betty explained that she used the technique from Rénia to connect the patches to each other. To hold the knitting in place and won’t slide down, she used a metal thread on top that is connected to the work. 

The third interview with Monika (aka Maluca Yarnbombing) it unfortunately still underway. What I do know about her and what she told me in an email is that she misses GuerillaKnitting very much and she wants to continue as soon as spare time will let her do that. She also runs a small business for herself that is called: Buubok. She sells these handmade goods via Etsy. These goods are various knitted lampshades, crocheted clutches, toys and rugs. To make al these goods she has to possess many techniques and that makes it for me interesting.

The knowledge of this group is divers but most of all related to various techniques. They all have started with their own technique(s), but because of the shared knitting sessions they taught from each other, which intrigue me to co-operate with them for my follow up project, 'Exchange knitting'.