2020 Ferguson Library Virtual Makefest: Everything Isn't Awesome But Knitting is with Kate Kosturski
Channel: The Ferguson Library
Date: 2020-09-24

Instead of spending your quarantine time doomscrolling because you ran out of things to watch on Netflix, why not take up a new hobby? Find out how knitting can benefit your physical and mental health, and how it's not your grandma's craft anymore. We'll also provide online resources to learn to knit, as well as places to connect with other knitters. There will be a brief demonstration of how to cast on and what a knit and purl stitch look like.



By day, Kate Kosturski sells physics to librarians in Europe. By night, she turns the physics of knitting on its head, throwing down mad stitches while watching everything from Doctor Who to Star Wars to random 80s commercials on YouTube. A knitter since 2008, Kate is also on the board of the Big Apple Knitters Guild, running its website and social media. You can also find her some Friday nights at the Knit in the Pit virtual meetups. In addition, Kate also is an Eisner-award winning comic journalist, with contributions at Women Write About Comics, PanelxPanel magazine, and Multiversity Comics (where she also runs the social media).