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		<title>stitchin fingers</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 17:30:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sharon Boggon of In a Minute Ago has recently set up a new textile community - Stitchin Fingers - on the social networking site Ning. You'll find it at stitchinfingers.ning.com and in just a few days it has gained over 300 members. Sharon says I have described it as &#34;The group is open to all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leisure Learners</title>
		<link>http://www.textilearts.net/news/2007/12/04/leisure-learners/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2007 21:51:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new website connecting tutors, organisations and students in UK for arts and crafts subjects If you've noticed recently how much harder it's become to find adult leisure and recreational courses in the UK since the government's decision to focus resources on younger people, you'll welcome this site that aims to fill the information gap. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fibre Arts/Mixed Media social network</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2007 10:37:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Susan Sorrell has recently created the Fiber Arts/Mixed Media network on the social networking site Ning. It's free to join and members can post information about classes, artwork, techniques, shows, and web resources, share their work, seek advice, and build community. The more people who participate the more wide-ranging this resource will become, so do [...]]]></description>
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		<title>National Knitting Week 2007!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2007 11:02:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The build up to the UK's National Knitting Week 2007 has begun! The dates for this exciting event in the knitting calendar are 13 - 21 October 2007, kicking off with the Knitting &#38; Stitching Show at Alexandra Palace, London. National Knitting Week is a chance to celebrate the world of knit and purl and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sharon B&#8217;s blog has moved</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Aug 2007 17:44:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sharon Boggon's popular blog, In A Minute Ago, has moved to a new home here, and Sharon's other blogs Mindtracks and Wisdom of the Ages have also moved (these links are to the new addresses). Sharon tells the story of the move in her first post at the new address. If you haven't visited In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>morsbags</title>
		<link>http://www.textilearts.net/news/2007/07/10/morsbags/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2007 19:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[morsbags are a great, subversive idea to fight the damage plastic bags cause to the environment, by replacing them with cloth bags made by 'pods' of people and given away to shoppers. let's do something positive to reduce the hideous number of plastic bags being used - 1 million are consumed per minute globally - [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Midlands Textile Forum</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Oct 2006 19:38:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A group of textiles artists, designers and makers living or working in the Midlands Region are in the initial stages of establishing a Midland Textile Forum. Membership will be open to any age, gender or nationality, working in any textile medium. Please send expressions of interest; giving your Name, email and/or postal address, your geographical [...]]]></description>
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