Knitting in the Media

In an attempt to gloss over my lack of knitting progress here's a couple of knitting tidbits I've picked up recently:

A knitting themed movie - Apparently the book 'The Friday Night Knitting Club' is to be turned into a movie starring Julia Roberts. Described as Steel Magnolias set in a knitting shop, it did leave one reviewer saying she wished she could knit.

In other news, a presumably well-meaning, but misguided bank decided that many of their customers were being defrauded by a Rockin Sock scam and arbitrarily cancelled all the orders. After all, why would people pay out over US$200 for socks?! Of course, what these people were paying for was to receive several sock kits in interesting yarn and other knitting related objects. Blue Moon Fibre Arts and its Socks that Rock yarns are reasonably well known amongst knitters circles, but apparently not amongst bankers. The Yarn Harlot is one of the yarn addicts affected and her post on the subject has an large number of commenters equally puzzled by the banks actions. Questions are raised about whether a group made of largely men would be so treated and of course at least one person wonders why the bankers were incapable of Googling the subject.