Lisa
Gentry
has
created
a brand
new
technique
called
"chain
knitting."
Take a
sneak-peek
at the
book
written
about
this
fresh
topic in
knitting..........
January 20, 2008:
World’s fastest crocheter to
challenge fastest knitter Lisa Gentry, the world’s fastest crocheter according to the Guinness
Book of World Records, wants another title — world’s fastest knitter...........
http://www.thenewsstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200880118020
Lisa
Gentry
World’s Fastest Crocheter and New Knit &
Crochet Designer
Lisa Gentry is the fastest crocheter in the
world according to the Guinness Book of
World Records. She is also an up-and-coming
designer.
Guinness World Records officially issued
"The Fastest Crocheter Title" to Lisa Gentry
on June 25, 2005 at 5.06 p.m. This
accomplishment began her ascent in the world
of knitting and crocheting as a successful
businesswoman and
designer....................... http://knittingcrochet.suite101.com/article.cfm/lisa_gentry"The Jackson Independent"
If you want to make Lisa Gentry smile,
invite her to look into a closetful of yarn.
One of her happiest childhood memories is of
doing exactly that. She was raised in
Germany at a Catholic church school, where
she and other children lived and were cared
for. The nuns who taught her to knit recogn...
Chatham
Mayor Herman Leonard presents Lisa Gentry
with a plaque during April's town hall
meeting, commemorating Gentry's Guinness
Worlds Record status as the fastest
Crocheter on Earth.
By STEPHEN
HEMELT Managing Editor
Being the
world's fastest Crocheter can open a few
doors.
It has for Chatham's Lisa Gentry, who is
recognized by Guinness Worlds Records as the
fastest Crocheter. The German-born fast
finger expert turned the title into a
marketing and design contract with Coats &
Clark that takes her around the country,
put-ting her designs in various national
magazines.
According to the company's web-site, Coats
& Clark is America's No. 1 name in sewing
and needlecraft products and offers a full
range of products for sewing, quilting,
knitting, crochet and machine and hand
embroidery.
"My designs are actually coming out,"
Gentry said. "It just takes awhile.
The sooner I get
more designs out, the more people will start
knowing me."
Gentry owes part of her burgeoning design
fame to her husband of 10 years, Jerry.
"My husband always told everybody I was fast
with my fingers," she said. "Then when I was
checking the Internet, I read something
about the world's fastest Crocheter and how
many stitches she did. What I ended up
reading was not the world record holder but
the American record holder. After three
times trying it at home, I beat her record.
That is when I decided to go for the
Guinness Worlds Records."
Gentry received her Guinness recognition by
crocheting 5,113 stitches in 30 minutes
during a sanctioned showcase in Monroe on
June 25, 2005.
The previous record had stood since 1981.
Gentry even faced a one-on-one challenge
from Lily Chin, a fast and famous Crocheter
in her own right. The result was a televised
match in front of numerous California
television stations that recorded Gentry
crocheting 107 stitches to Chin's 82
stitches.
The ensuing crochet fame has Gentry in
Oakland this week for a convention, teaching
crochet classes for three days. In July, she
will go to Philadelphia for more crochet
classes and a fashion show.
Lisa and Jerry were also in Detroit
earlier this year filming television spots.
Locally, the
town of Chatham and Mayor Herman Leonard
presented Gentry with a plaque honoring her
Guinness standing during this month's city
council meeting.
Lisa and Jerry met in Maryland and have been
married for ten years. They moved to the
Caney Lake area three years ago.
"I met my husband in Maryland and we lived
there for seven years," Lisa said. "He is
actually from Bastrop and he decided to move
back home."
April 8, 2006:
Learn
to stitch
Lisa
Gentry helps Cole Williamson with his crocheting.
Gentry, holder of the "Guinness Book of Records"
fastest Crocheter record, shows third-grade students
at Grace Episcopal School in Monroe on Friday how to
crochet. Gentry, an official spokeswoman for Coats
and Clark, has one of her patterns published in
Family Circle Easy Knitting magazine.
Margaret Croft/The News-Star
July
27, 2005
World Fastest Crocheter
Official World Record
Title issued by the Guinness World Records July 27,
2005, 5.06 p.m.
— The
best of the best are convention in Oakland this
weekend, but unlike many convention goers, these
folks probably won't be tying-one-on later tonight.
Although they'll tie plenty off... here's Wayne
Freedman with a yarn about knitting, crocheting and
the needling that comes with it.
Please click the link to watch the News report
movie:
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/news/072205_nw_knitting.html
