I keep joining the knitting communities on those networking sites, the friendster and the tribe and the orkut. I'm not sure why. My knitting is such an on-again-off-again thing. I'll knit like mad for months, and then be completely uninterested for a while. Sometimes it's a big project that burns me out--senior year in college I made this adorable fair-isle sweater for a friend's toddler, and then I didn't knit anything for nearly two years. Right now I'm in an on-again phase, which means I've dragged out from the closet my big copy-paper box full of old yarn and a big thicket of needles. I'm working on an afghan, and I'm working on a scarf that looks like a sheep, and I keep fiddling with my double-pointeds and thinking I might like to try making a hat.
But even when I'm interested in knitting, I don't get a lot out of mailing lists or online groups. So I don't know why I keep joining them. But I clicked through to an Orkut discussion of stitch and bitch groups, because I keep thinking something like that would be fun (just like I keep thinking a book group would be fun--sometimes I feel like I need structured excuses to get out of the house). What I found in the discussion, though, is the completely hilarious idea of people being denied membership in knitting groups because they aren't serious enough knitters.
This is the dark and sinister consequence of knitting being trendy, you know. You might have thought that the existence of patterns for hand-knit thong swimsuits was the dark and sinister consequence, but no, that's not even it. It's the fact that people are getting high and mighty about the fact that they make scarves out of string.
(although I'll confess to a small bit of in-group glee after getting the "who died and made her lily chin?" joke.)
Posted by Susan at March 18, 2004 02:21 PMHey! Weren't you gonna reteach me how to knit? We should get together and do that sometime. I have my old knitting needles around here somewhere ....
Posted by: Heather Shaw at March 18, 2004 07:33 PMHave you seen this music video?
http://www.uemedia.net/artman/uploads/0218Stereogram2.mov
I'm not thrilled with the music, and it gets a little gory at one point, but it has some cool knitting-related stop-motion animation.
(I tried to attach the link to some text, to avoid the makes-the-window-too-wide problem, but the comments system threw away the link.)
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