The Knitters were devoted to folk and country music ; their take of Merle Haggard's " Silver Wings " " may be the definitive version.

Alvin became a member of country band The Knitters and appeared on their 1987 album Poor Little Critter on the Road and their 2005 follow-up, The Modern Sounds of The Knitters.

Knitters who are comfortable with both English style and Continental style knitting can carry one colour with their right hand and one with their left, although it is also possible to simply use two different fingers for the two colours of yarn and knit both using the same style.

Twenty years later, in 2005, the group released their second and ironically-titled album, The Modern Sounds of the Knitters.

In 2005, Doe, Cervenka and Bonebrake reunited with Dave Alvin and Johnny Ray Bartel to release a second Knitters album, 20 years after the first, entitled The Modern Sound of the Knitters.

Stocking Frame at Ruddington Framework Knitters ' Museum

The band was saluted in the Van Halen song " Top Jimmy ", and mentioned in " The Call of the Wreckin ' Ball ," on the The Knitters album, Poor Little Critter on the Road and the X album, Live at the Whisky a Go-Go.

Stocking Frame at Ruddington Framework Knitters ' Museum

Knitters have developed methods for giving the illusion of a circular wale, such as appear in Celtic knots, but these are inexact approximations.

Knitters generally ensure that the yarn for a project comes from a single dye lot.

As of September 2011, Knitters Without Borders donors have contributed CAD $ 1, 062, 217.

A side project of some of the band members was Poor Little Critter on the Road in 1985, under the name The Knitters: X minus Zoom, plus Dave Alvin ( of The Blasters ) on guitar and Johnny Ray Bartel ( of The Red Devils ) on double bass.

Literary Company whose authors include: Henry Rollins ( Publisher, Black Flag ), Iggy Pop ( The Stooges ), Exene Cervenka ( X, Auntie Christ, The Knitters ), Nick Cave ( Birthday Party, Bad Seeds, Grinderman ), Michael Gira ( The Swans ), Joe Cole, Tricia Warden, Don Bajema, Bill Shields, Jeffery Lee Pierce ( The Gun Club ), and Ellyn Maybe.

Hinckley United was formed in 1997 from the amalgamation of Hinckley Town and Hinckley Athletic, and is known as the Knitters — a nickname that comes from the town's history as a textile-producing centre.

The Worshipful Company of Framework Knitters is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London.

Unlike many other companies, the Framework Knitters ' Company has retained close connections to its original trade, most members of the company being involved with the craft.

The Framework Knitters ' Company ranks sixty-fourth in the order of precedence for Livery Companies.

Some of the Framework Knitters Homes date back to 1909, while the North Memorial Homes, financed by Sir Jonathan North ( former Mayor of Leicester ) were built in 1927 and opened in the same year by the Prince of Wales.

He is a former member of The Blasters, X, and The Knitters.

Among the bands to play the reopened location were The Meat Puppets, Steve Forbert, The Knitters, The Pipettes, Cash Registers, Longwave, Rob Dickinson, The Black Angels, Cruel Black Dove and Quiet loudly.

Knitters decorated the trees, benches, and light posts with colorful yarn and unique patterns.

This scene also produced bands such as The Blasters, X, Los Lobos, The Gun Club, The Knitters, and The Plugz.

Knitters also use pencil roving, similar to Lopi style yarns, or when making a thrummed item.

Knitters and crocheters rewind the hanks into balls or centre-pull skeins prior to use, in order to prevent the yarn from becoming tangled.

At the formation of the club, a competition was held for fans to come up with a nickname and The Knitters was chosen.

There a dozen giant monitors played their seventy-five-foot jets of water against the huge seam of tertiary gravel which was the mountainside.

But with Bill O'Connor on the fiddle, and Gran Harrow exuberantly shouting `` Glory Be '' and `` Hallelujah '' above their united chant of the lilting old ballads, they played their quaint folk games with all the fervor and abandon of a real celebration.

For lawyers, reflecting perhaps their parochial preferences, there has been a special fascination since then in the role played by the Supreme Court in that transformation -- the manner in which its decisions altered in `` the switch in time that saved nine '', President Roosevelt's ill-starred but in effect victorious `` Court-packing plan '', the imprimatur of judicial approval that was finally placed upon social legislation.

-- The powerful New York Yankees won their 19th world series in a 5-game romp over outclassed Cincinnati, crushing the Reds in a humiliating 13-5 barrage Monday in the loosely played finale.

Displaying his knowledge of music, the New England-born President remarked that `` probably the best chamber music in the world is played in Vermont, by young Americans -- and here in this school where they have produced extraordinary musicians and teachers, and their work is being duplicated all across the United States.

Mobutu promptly flung out the Russians, who have not since played any significant part on the local scene, although they have redoubled their obstructionist efforts at U.N. headquarters in New York.

Then there are a pair of old biddies played by Grace Carney and Sibly Bowan who may be right off the shelf of stock Irish characters, but they put such a combination of good will and malevolence into their parts that they're quite entertaining.

On their tour that year ( 1882 ) the Australians played just one Test, at The Oval in London.

Arau appeared in the 1972 Mexican film El rincón de las vírgenes (" The Virgins ' Corner "), where he played the assistant of a fake mystical doctor traveling from town to town, who reminisce about their travels, when a group of women decide to propose the doctor for sainthood.

Seven Republican senators – William Pitt Fessenden, Joseph S. Fowler, John B. Henderson, Lyman Trumbull, Peter G. Van Winkle and notably Senators Grimes and Ross played a decisive role ; purportedly disturbed by how the proceedings had been manipulated to give a one-sided presentation of the evidence, they voted against conviction, in defiance of their party and public opinion.

Although there were low levels of preexisting antibiotic-resistant bacteria before the widespread use of antibiotics, evolutionary pressure from their use has played a role in the development of muiltidrug resistance varieties and the spread of resistance between bacterial species.

Before the 1988 NFL season, the team moved to Tempe, Arizona, a college town suburb of Phoenix, and played their home games for the next 18 years at Arizona State University's Sun Devil Stadium.

Famed anarchist-punk band Crass played their last live show for striking miners in Aberdare during the UK miners ' strike ( 1984-1985 ).

They played their football league games at the Aberdare Athletic Ground and were known as the Darians.

Archaeoastronomy ( also spelled archeoastronomy ) is the study of how people in the past " have understood the phenomena in the sky, how they used phenomena in the sky, and what role the sky played in their cultures.

Regarding their applications, amorphous metallic layers played an important role in the discussion of a suspected superconductivity in amorphous metals.

The history of baseball in the United States can be traced to the 18th century, when amateurs played a baseball-like game by their own informal rules using improvised equipment.

Nevertheless, the Knickerbocker Rules were rapidly adopted by teams in the New York area and their version of baseball became known as the " New York Game " ( as opposed to the " Massachusetts Game ", played by clubs in the Boston area ).

The Lions also played a test against Canada on their way home, winning 19 to 8 in Toronto.

The Lions, and their predecessor teams, have often played games against other nearby countries on tour.

For example, they played Rhodesia ( the future Zimbabwe ) in 1910, 1924, 1938, 1955, 1962, 1968 & 1974 during their tours to South Africa.

Each game is played to 21 points, with players scoring a point whenever they win a rally regardless of whether they served ( this differs from the old system where players could only win a point on their serve and each game was played to 15 points ).

In the forecourt and midcourt, most strokes can be played equally effectively on either the forehand or backhand side ; but in the rearcourt, players will attempt to play as many strokes as possible on their forehands, often preferring to play a round-the-head forehand overhead ( a forehand " on the backhand side ") rather than attempt a backhand overhead.