Students knit for anti-bullying campaign

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — After Louis Boria heard about the student knitters of Hartford, he came to Connecticut with a message — and a challenge.

"Fall in love with your passion. Love yourself first," Boria — the founder of his own knitting company, Brooklyn Boy Knits — told students at New Visions School in Hartford during a recent visit when he explained how knitting became an obsession after he awoke from a vivid dream in 2011.

"I had never so much as tied a knot let alone knit or purl," recalls Boria, who wore his trademark "fisherman's cap" during his Hartford visit. After teaching himself to knit using YouTube videos, he took his knitting projects everywhere.