So, I read my cyber-friend's change about creating a community of Urban Knitters, and while I am not a great or very committed knitter, I have spent time on road trips and camping adventures engaged in Wilderness Knitting. I agree: knitting should be performed in public. It reclaims a dying art and demonstrates how a form of art and craft is also a completely practical use of time and resources and something that can be done while also (1) conversing; (2) planning for change; (3) developing campaigns; and (4) building community, among other things. To steal from Wendell Berry, let us go down to the peace of Wild Knitters....