Heavy Metal Knitting 2022
19th August 2022
If placing the terms ‘heavy metal’ and ‘knitting’ together seem like a complete contradiction, then perhaps you missed our news article in All Stitched Up! issue #209 from 2019. In that article we introduced the Heavy Metal Knitting World Championship that ran for the first time that year in Finland.
2022 champions String Thing (photo by Irma Lehikoinen)
Fast forward three years, and despite the pandemic and various other global challenges, the 2022 Heavy Metal Knitting World Championship has just been held.
This year, eight teams from around the world took to the stage where they combined their knitting skills with heavy metal tunes in a joyous fusion that is nothing if not unique!
This year, the overall winner was String Thing from the UK, however there was tough competition from the other UK team, Woolfumes and UniKorn from the USA.
Bunny Bandit (photo by Lasse Simonen)