So apparently, I’ve gotten quite hooked on this:
It was a combination of the following influences:
- my Mom re-teaching me (about a year ago) to knit, in response to a bandage knitting project
- My friend Frisbie, who is a textile artist. She updated my skills as you can see here (though isn’t responsible for the choice of colors!), including the basketweave technique and (gasp!) TWO yarns at once!
- Reading Kate Jacobs’ book The Friday Night Knitting Club, which combined my romantic idea of myself as a knitter, with my romantic idea of myself as an independent woman in NYC.
- And finally, the influence of fellow writer, Disgruntled Cycle Commuting Town Mouse, who inadvertently set my competitive nature in motion when she not only taught herself to knit, but felted a mug cosy that even had Frisbie humming and hahing.
Colin’s comment: “Oh how nice. A Scarf. Just in time for spring.”
You can tell the knitting is working because I just laughed and stitched on.
Colin’s second comment, after I very nicely didn’t poke him with the needle: “No really it’s good. You can get a jump on your Fall line.
Sigh. No respect.
If you want a laugh google crochet graffiti. There is a wonderful community of women around the country who crochet and then go out in the middle of the night and tag everything from trees to handrails to car antennas. It’s a very lighthearted approach to civil disobedience!
I did warn you it was addictive didn’t I?
My friend Larry (also a knitter/artist) reported that he was working on a scarf and realized that it was …oops… 10 feet long. So now it is going to be a bedspread/wallhanging.
Hi from your church friend with the twins! The knitted cable sweater motif mugs at S*bucks near the closing office supply store are on clearance. Perfect for a knitting fiend. I crochet more than knit but picked one up today.