When MP Brooks Newmark told charities they should "stick to their knitting" this week there was only going to be one thing he was going to get - a woolly reception!
His words may have been deemed 'ignorant' and 'insulting' but the sector has reacted in the typically creative style it is renowned for and sent the civic society minister a number of witty retorts on Twitter using #stickingtomyknitting
1. Ruby
2. SCVO
I always make time to pack up my typewriter and get on with some real work
3. Eliot Stark
Introducing the new social justice superhero Knittingman!
4. Helen True
I hope the bus has Wifi
5. Ian Noon
6. Talat Yaqoob
Maybe we need a knitters anonymous charity?
7. Charlotte Bray
Got to keep the circulation going for writing proposals
8. Judie Holliday
You can’t knit online? This needs to be sorted. #knittingexclusion
9. David Lyons
Brooks might want to borrow this to use as a gag
10. Cahonas Scotland
This could get itchy
11. Joanne MacInnes
Maybe donors should be donating knitting patterns
12. Iona Community
Knitting is God’s work
13. Kerrie Anne Boyle
To be fair a scarf is an important part of a child’s future
14. Paul Cardwell
I always make time to pack up my typewriter and get on with some real work
