[This is a guest post by Amanda Watson, who works as a Research and Instruction Librarian at Connecticut College in New London, Connecticut. In her spare time, she tries not to let her yarn habit get ...

The fact that I knit year-round and live in sunny Meanjin/Brisbane often prompts people to look at me sideways. When we think of knitting, we tend to first think of the cosy jumpers, chic balaclavas ...