Heavy Metal Knitting World Championships on July 16th 2020 in Joensuu, Finland

***This was the promotion video of Heavy Metal Knitting World Championship 2019 - the event will be held next time on the 16th of July, 2020. More information will be available on the darkest and coldest day of the Finnish winter - 20th of December, 2019. You rock - stay tuned!*** Finland is the promised land of heavy metal music. There are 50 heavy metal bands per 100 000 Finnish citizens, which is astonishingly many and actually more than anywhere else in the whole world. The number of needlework enthusiasts is equally high, as according to even the most modest estimates there are hundreds of thousands of people in Finland who are immersed various kinds of needlework crafts, knitting included. What combines them both is the great joy of creativity. When playing guitar as well as knitting stitches it is all about the pleasure of creating something cool with your hands. And - it’s all about the attitude! In heavy metal knitting, needlework and music become united like never before. On the same stage, accomp