A local yarn shop, University City Blvd. Blacksburg, has posted a call for donations of knitted or crocheted squares to make blankets for the victims and families of the Virginia Tech tragedy. To participate check this blog post at the mosaic yarn shop.

Another high light from my summer holyday at Öland was a visit at Capellagården an independent, residential school for creative work founded almost fifty years ago by Professor Carl Malmstenin in the village of Vickleby on the edge of an extensive heath known as Stora Alvaret on the southern end of the island just off the Baltic coast. As you can imagine it’s a wonderful, unique and calm location – a place where you can loose yourself in your crafting passion, and that’s the explicit idea behind Capellagården: Living, working, studying and experiencing “hand and mind in vital collaboration” and to “unite beauty and function in crafts”.

The school offers three-year courses in textile craft and design, cabinet making and furniture design, ceramics and even ecological gardening as well as shorter summer courses. Originally it was meant as a meeting place for young people from Sweden but today it has developed into an international meeting place with students from many different countries.

Every summer Capellagården arranges a beautiful exhibition and sale of handicrafts, furniture, textiles and ceramics that have been made at the school in the course of the year. The exhibition is held in the old school by Vickleby Church and of course it always attracts a large numbers of visitors.

I can warmly recommend a visit there if you ever go to Öland.

Tejemanejes is a new online magazine about knitting and crocheting . It´s in spanish, but there are great projects.

Las hispanoablantes están de enhorabuena, si te gusta tejer, ésta es tu revista:Tejemanejes.