A small country knits sweaters for its great composer Newsnorman lebrecht September 22, 2025The Lithuanian capital Vilnius has launched a grassroots knitting initiative “We Knit Čiurlionis” for the 150th anniversary of the national composer, Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis. The press release says:Čiurlionis was a polymath who created 400 musical works and 300 paintings in less than a decade. The initiative “We Knit Čiurlionis” was launched in May 2025 by a Lithuanian knitting community that has been active for the past three years. Since then, nearly 400 knitters from across the country have joined the effort. The project will culminate on 27 September 2025, when knitters plan to gather, dressed in their finished creations, to celebrate Čiurlionis’s 150th birthday.