Discover (and save!) your own Pins on Pinterest May 30, 2017 Anna Hunter. Here's what I think. 2013! They probably put it up as a joke, but I'm taking it seriously. Slow television is the uninterrupted broadcast of an ordinary event from start to finish. Created by Thomas Hellum, Håvard Jensen. Slow TV and a day of knitting At the end of March, I came across a pullover pattern that really appealed to me.

It looked comfortable and fun.

Slow television, or slow TV (Norwegian: Sakte-TV), is a term used for a genre of "marathon" television coverage of an ordinary event in its complete length.Its name is derived both from the long endurance of the broadcast as well as from the natural slow pace of the television program's progress. Mar 15, 2015 - Norwegian Slow TV - Knitting a sweater complete from shearing to finished garment in 5 hours - all shown.

Take competitive eating for example. First off, I don't believe everything should be a sport. Created by Thomas Hellum, Håvard Jensen. Netflix just posted an eight and a half hour show about competitive sweater knitting.

The Slow Knitter - This podcast focuses on the craft of knitting and other fiber related topics. Listen | Print.
For those of you already in the know of the hottest and slowest (sort of like lava!) Digging through my stash, I realized I even had the perfect yarn for it (although, it slipped past my attention that the colors were the same). Five-hour 'slow TV' knitting show to air in Norway. REVIEW - SLOW TV: NATIONAL KNITTING NIGHT - a post by Luke. Approximately 1 million Norwegian viewers tuned in.

It began with the broadcast of a train journey from the coastal city of Bergen to the capital, Oslo . "National Knitting Night" (Nasjonal strikkekveld) was broadcast from Friday November 1, 2013, 8:05 p.m. to Saturday November 2, 2013, 9:20 a.m. on NRK2. Like the “slow food” movement, Slow Knitting encourages knitters to step back, pare down, and celebrate the craftsmanship of their work. Knitting enthusiasts in Norway discuss the pastime and try to break the speed record for shearing, spinning and knitting wool into a men's sweater.

It was loose and casual.
A life lived observing the principles of slow philosophy is a life spent “savoring the hours and minutes rather than just counting them” explains Carl Honoré, a leading figure of the movement. Live transmission. Aug 6, 2016 - This Pin was discovered by Candy Grastorf. Slow TV is often grouped together with the Slow Movement: a cultural movement that advocates for the slowing down of life’s pace, sparked by the Slow Food Movement of 1986. I can be found on Instagram and Facebook as TheSlowKnitter.

SLOW-TV KNITTING ON NRK One lucky lamb will be coming to national fame as NRK television stages National Knitting Night on Nov. 1. "Couch potatoes: Mark your calendars. It's called "Slow TV," and it's a surprising smash-hit in Norway. By Anne Sewell Oct 1, 2013 in Odd News.