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The title of 2022 World Champion in Heavy Metal Knitting goes to String Thing from the United Kingdom!

The third ever Heavy Metal Knitting World Championships – and second ever LIVE held Championship – was witnessed on Friday July 8th 2022 in Finland at the Joensuu Market Square Stage. The winner of the title is String Thing from the United Kingdom.

2nd place went to artist by heavy metal knitting name Woolfumes, which was a performance including performing stars from Scotland and India. As 3rd the jury recognized UniKorn from the United States. The jury rated all the performances by attitude, originality of the performance, story and by ”Heavyknittinghood”.

The jury explained the decision of the winner: “The winning team pulled off a surprising and energetic show. Creativity was shown in many different forms – from costumes to the using of space and stage. The show popped from the stage in the form of huge yarn balls and the audience was included to have fun with the artist. The jury was completely unanimous.“

“The 2nd rewarded Scottish-Indian Woolfumes inspired the audience from an educational view as the performance included knitting instructions, which impressed the jury. As 3rd galloped the artist by name UniKorn from the United States. The performance reminded us all about the fact that knitting is definitely not boring!”, the jury described.

For the title of Heavy Metal Knitting World Champion, 8 acts as the finalists from Germany and Sweden had to cancel their participation within the last days before the show. On stage were seen artists from the following countries: Australia, Finland, Japan, Scotland/India, the United Kingdom and the United States.

The jury of the competition: Anni Kokkonen / vocalist of Nevicate band, Dalva Lamminmäki / Event organizer at Susiraja Metal Club and Petri Varis / City of Joensuu.

The next Heavy Metal Knitting World Championship will take place on Friday July 7th 2023.

Heavy Metal Knitting is about combining handicrafts and heavy metal music in an unique way. For the Heavy Knitting Online World Championships the competitors sent their competition videos during the qualification round. 10 best acts rated by the qualification round jury were competing for the title at the final event.

Complete list of the admitted finalists in the 2022 competition:

Heavy Metal Knitting World Champion: String Thing (United Kingdom)
2nd place: Woolfumes (Scotland / India)
3rd place: UniKorn (United States)
4-10th place in alphabetical order:
Backstage Knitter (Sweden)
Bunny Bandit (United States)
Cindy Yoshieda (Japan)
Crafts with Ellen (Germany)
Maatiaisgootti (Finland)
Titan feat. Dexter the Dropbear (Australia)
Yuki Redrock (Japan)

Watch all of the performances here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yxps_cBqyf0

Heavy Metal Knitting Online World Championship 2022 was produced by WTF Productions Oy Ltd in co-operation Tovari Marketing.

Live music at the World Championship 2022 by Systematic Sickness Kin.

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