Sock Summit knitters aim to set Guinness World Record
August 15, 2009
The organizers of Sock Summit decided to have an event to break the Guinness World record of people knitting simultaneously. Stephanie Pearl-McPhee and Tina Newton booked the Oregon Ballroom of the Convention Center to hold this event. The ballroom was limited to 1600 knitters. The Knitters at Sock Summit, all 935 of them, attempted to set the world record for simultaneous knitting. The previous record, set in June in Australia, was 256 knitters
On Friday, the 7th of August at 12:15 p.m., the knitters started knitting, following the Guinness World Record rules. The Guinness World Record rules were that the attempt must be made by knitters knitting for 15 minutes, using “traditional needles” which they define as “two needles”. This means that every person that participated used two needles, and not circulars or four needles. The attempt was a success. The record was broken, but no official word yet.
There are many blogs detailing this event, and also a video from K2TOG at The Oregonian.
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