How to make Bernie Sanders’ inauguration mittens

Feel the Bern, not the cold, with your own pair of winter-proof hand warmers – here’s how to stitch them at home

While it was Michelle Obama’s hair that brought the glamour to Joe Biden’s inauguration day, it was Bernie Sanders’ mittens that delivered the memes. Sitting at the event in a winter coat and mittens, arms and legs crossed, he was the yin to the rest of the Capitol’s sharp-suited yang – and promptly Photoshopped into Edward Hopper paintings, scenes from Glee and the vice-presidential debate, replacing the fly atop Mike Pence’s head.

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‘White supremacy’: popular knitting website Ravelry bans support for Trump

Administrators take action to ensure site ‘is inclusive of all’

One of the biggest knitting websites in the world, which claims to have more than 8 million members, has announced that it will ban users from expressing support for Donald Trump, saying that to do so constitutes “white supremacy”.

On Sunday, administrators for Ravelry, a site for knitters, crocheters, designers and anyone dabbling in the fibre arts, said that they were making any expression of support for Trump and his administration in forum posts, patterns, on their personal profile pages or elsewhere permanently off limits.

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Vanity Fair slammed for suggesting Hillary Clinton take up knitting, new hobbies for 2018

A Vanity Fair video suggesting former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton "take up a new hobby in 2018" is garnering online criticism, with some Twitter users calling for the public to cancel their subscriptions to the popular magazine. The video, posted on Vanity Fair's Twitter account Saturday, is part of a series in which staffers on the magazine's politics and business publications, with a glass of wine in hand, give politicians six New Year's resolutions.