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http://www.seattletimes.com/life/lifestyle/pussyhat-production-causes-run-on-pink-yarn/
http://www.yesmagazine.org/people-p...tivists-cause-shortages-of-pink-yarn-20170110
http://wwmt.com/news/nation-world/c...arn-in-stock-ahead-of-washington-womens-march
http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2017/01/12/minding-their-knitting.html
http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/20...ashington-march-day-after-trump-inauguration/
https://www.yahoo.com/style/why-pin...to-find-until-inauguration-day-185433557.html
Various places around the country are reporting shortages of pink yarn as unknown numbers of women knit "Pussy Hats" in protest against the boastful "grab 'em by the pussy" comments of DJ Trump, who will be inaugurated as President of the United States next week.
The "Pussy Hats" are the unofficial headgear of the planned Women's March on Washington, a protest against Trump to be held the day after the inauguration. They are knit hats, any shade of pink, with pussycat ears.
http://www.yesmagazine.org/people-p...tivists-cause-shortages-of-pink-yarn-20170110
http://wwmt.com/news/nation-world/c...arn-in-stock-ahead-of-washington-womens-march
http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2017/01/12/minding-their-knitting.html
http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/20...ashington-march-day-after-trump-inauguration/
https://www.yahoo.com/style/why-pin...to-find-until-inauguration-day-185433557.html
Various places around the country are reporting shortages of pink yarn as unknown numbers of women knit "Pussy Hats" in protest against the boastful "grab 'em by the pussy" comments of DJ Trump, who will be inaugurated as President of the United States next week.
The "Pussy Hats" are the unofficial headgear of the planned Women's March on Washington, a protest against Trump to be held the day after the inauguration. They are knit hats, any shade of pink, with pussycat ears.
In the week since we published a story on Pussyhats — the pink, knitted, kitten-eared hats women will be wearing to post-inauguration marches all over the country — pink yarn has been scarce around here.
“They did have some,” Melissa Purcell of Seattle reports of the Jo-Ann Fabrics store in Tukwila. “But it was slim pickings.”
At The Weaving Works store in Seattle, where people are picking up supplies to make Pussyhats and donating finished hats, and where non-knitters are picking them up, the stuff is flying out the door.
“We have sold more pink yarn than Seattle buys in four years,” said Jennifer Miller, a “yarn wrangler” at the store.
They ran out of pink yarn three times over, she said, before replenishing stock this week. One staffer took to dyeing white yarn to meet demand. (She and her husband hung it outside to dry, and it froze, making pink yarn icicles. That’s dedication.)
They look like pussycats, with two ears on top. The reference to Trump’s infamous remark is intentional, said Lisa Johnson who owns Hidden River Yarns in Manayunk [near Philadelphia].
“It kind of became a symbol, a power symbol for the women going to the march.”
With group knitting sessions taking place in the city, she said it’s been difficult, keeping pink yarn on the shelves.
“I had a great stock at the beginning of the week, but for my second time I’m starting to run out of pink yarn!”
Churchmouse Yarns and Teas in Bainbridge Island, Wash., and Purl Soho in New York tell Yahoo Style that they are close to being sold out of pink yarn. On its website, Lovely Yarns of Baltimore announces itself as a “proud partner” of the Pussy Hat Project and says it will “happily hook you up with some pink yarn” if you are in need.
Virginia Johnson is a film costume designer and the owner of Gather Here, a crafting studio in Cambridge, Mass. She tells Yahoo Style that her shop has also “officially run out of the neon pink yarn in a bulky weight.” Johnson adds: “We still have some neon pink yarn in worsted, sport, and fingering, but most people are knitting their hats with bulky yarn because it’s so much faster. We’ve reached out to our vendors to see what we can get in quickly because Pussy Hats have been a very popular project for the community.”