Kane, Joan Glenda. Interview about knitting.

• Main Authors: Barrett, Terra, Jarvis, Dale
• Other Authors: Kane, Joan Glenda
• Format: Moving Image (Video)
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Work; Knitting; Knitting needles; Kane; Joan Glenda; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/ich_oral/id/526

Interview with Joan Glenda Kane about knitting including memories of knitting, how to knit, what materials she uses, what World Knit in Public day is, and how she runs her business Ewe Designs. Joan Kane was born in St. John’s on September 21st, 1949 and grew up in Harbour Buffet, Placentia Bay; 0:39 – Kane describes her first memory of knitting; Kane describes who she taught to knit and knitting in her family; 1:58 – Kane describes how you teach someone to knit; Explanation of left hand knitting; 3:14 – Kane describes who she knits for and with and how she knits and reads; Kane describes her customers; 5:58 – Kane describes her business; Description of NONIA; 6:48 – Kane describes what makes a good knitter; Kane describes her favourite things to knit; Description of a well knit object; 10:43 – Kane describes the material she uses to knit; What Kane knits for orders; Description of knitting patterns and trigger mitts; 14:05 – How knitting has changed over the years; Knitting in public; 15:38 – Description of different knitting styles; How to fix a mistake in knitting; 18:50 – Kane describes the function of knitting; Types of knitwear being made today; Explanation of yarn bombing; 21:14 – Kane explains why she loves knitting; 22:19 – Kane describes why she started Ewe Designs; Description of some of the interesting people and places she has met and been through knitting; 25:49 – Kane explains why people should learn to knit; 27:04 – Kane explains international worldwide knit in public day; Kane describes where she knit for worldwide knit in public day; 29:00 – Kane describes the Cultural Craft Group of Partners -- who the partners are, where the crafts are displayed; 31:25 – Kane describes the difficulties of setting a price for crafts; 33:10 – Kane describes why she keeps some patterns to herself; Description of people copying ideas and patterns; 36:45 – Kane describes how historically men would knit; 37:50 – Kane describes growing up with sheep and shearing and carding the sheep’s wool; 39:03 – Kane describes ...