Crafty Me 4
When I was a child (until 4th grade), I spent the summer days with my grandmother while my mother was at work. At one point she taught me to knit, or at least to do a knit stitch so she could cast on a few stitches and let me occupy myself by making long, skinny chains of knitting. As an adult, I picked it back up a few times during fits of boredom, making 2 or 3 knitted mice for the cats to play with, but that’s about it. I can’t read a pattern or do anything besides cast on and off, and knit, but last night I completed my first real “project.”
A few weeks ago my Sensei was kind enough to buy me a set of Eskrima sticks for Christmas. I knitted a carrying bag for them. I suspect it’s a very small project by a hard-core knitter’s standards, but I don’t think I have the patience to to create anything big (like the afghans Aunt B. crocheted over at Tiny Cat Pants). Still I’m pretty happy with how it turned out despite there being a few noticable imperfections on close examination.
Update: I should add that any feminine points I earned by knitting something should be canceled out by the fact that that “something” was a container for weaponry, no?
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January 12th, 2008
Cool! Next project: make me a sweater!
January 13th, 2008
I’m trying to get someone to knit me a elvis zombie.
You up for it?
January 14th, 2008
If I even knew where to start on either of those things…
January 14th, 2008
Ya know, the genderedness of knitting is culturally very malleable. So, for instance, (male) sailors used to knit, but don’t any more. Scotsmen, I believe, still do knit.