Hands up if you got a provisional book deal today, and now you’re gonna write the world most punk knitting history book? 🙋🏻‍♀️

Not quite a knitting fact of the day but another needle, and art as rebellion... There's a story of a gentleman in a concentration camp who would tattoo by trade, but designs on other prisoners. One day, a Nazi officer gets wind that this guy does great work, and asks the prisoner to tattoo him. 🧵

Pop over to my Medium and give a follow would you? I'm going to update it with the process of book writing and adventure having, through both my work (feminism and knitting) and my partners work (tattoo art as real art) over the year! medium.com/@ashleighell...

Knitting Fact of the Day! Oh, intense pressure on Denmark to give up Greenland? Denmark is part of Scandinavia, which means "Dangerous Island". Lisbet Pedersdatter, in 1634, was a nomad who knitted stockings to earn money for food and clothing but who was accused of 🧵