Why pink? As the Pussy Hat Project founders state on their website, “Pink is considered a very female color representing caring, compassion and love — all qualities that have been derided as weak, but ...

Pink hats with cat ears have turned into something of an unofficial uniform for Saturday's Women's March in Washington, D.C. and people are desperately trying to buy yarn to make the hats in time. The ...

There’s a dizzying amount of activity at some Seattle yarn shops ahead of Saturday’s Womxn’s March, during which demonstrators plan to wear pink cat-eared hats. “About two and a half weeks ago, we ...

In the week since we published a story on Pussyhats — the pink, knitted, kitten-eared hats women will be wearing to post-inauguration marches all over the country — pink yarn has been scarce around ...

Beverly Edmonds desperately needed pink yarn. Not for Valentine’s Day, nor for Breast Cancer Awareness month. She needed the suddenly hard-to-find hue for a certain special hat. Edmonds joined ...

If nothing else, the past few months have given us a few memorable phrases – “nasty woman,” “pussy grabs back,” “nevertheless, she persisted.” Rather than focus on the negativity behind their origin, ...

A national knitting activism project has swept the Bay Area ahead of a series of women-led marches planned for this weekend, leaving local yarn stores with a pink shortage. Knitters across the Bay ...

Phone conversations with my mother, a devoted knitter, are usually routine: the family cat, her impending retirement, and what’s up at her local yarn shop. But this week, crisis: “They’re completely ...

The project's goal is to make a visual statement on the first day of President-elect Donald Trump's administration to show that women stand united when it comes to protecting their rights, said the ...

NEW YORK — A cozy little cat-eared hat has captured the hearts of knitters around the world in a pink-colored show of solidarity with thousands who plan to attend women’s marches in the nation’s ...

Every now and then, people drop by the Little Knittery in Atwater Village to catch a glimpse of where it all began. It was here that two young women partnered with shop owner Kat Coyle in November to ...