Casty and I, having come to a kind of detente, co-exist more or less peacefully. I do have projects on my needles, a Clapotis, (right down there) a February Baby Sweater -- also waiting for the next two weeks or so. I have great plans - for a Tree Jacket, a Cobblestone, hats and mittens, you name it. Even so, at different times in the day, I long to knit.
This past winter, chatting with a group of women at my brother-in-law's annual Superbowl party, I realized that there are people for whom knitting means nothing. These women were perfectly nice, all of them with interesting lives and a lot to say. But they do not knit. Their friends don't knit. They are not interested in your knitting, and they don't want to learn to knit. They nod politely and move the conversation forward. They do not spend an inordinate amount of time or money thinking about projects, swatching, buying yarn, discussing the merits of various needles, etc. They are not glued to Ravelry for hours on end, or worse, waiting for their invite. In short, they are not obsessed, or addicted, or whatever it is we are.
My question is this: What do they do? What would you do if you didn't knit?
5 comments:
kill myself!!
I think I used to read. There are vague recollections of meaningless (to me) cross-stitching-but I never came out of that closet to chat about it.
Oddly enough at my Knit Night there is a similar group of women completely disinterested in anything BUT knitting (except maybe the occasional medical condition and charm bracelets) so I think the universe balance out in the end. : )
Stare into the void...and hopefully not scrapbook, ever!
Needlepoint! There are now great threads available to covet - mohair, silk, alpaca, etc. Oh wait, I already do it!
Almost everyone I know doesn't knit, and those that can don't. The rest of the human race watches t.v. with idle hands, goes to the cinema with idle hands, sits in the kitchen with a cup of tea and idle hands.
Before I knit I sewed more, read more, and did all of the above with idle hands more! I wouldn't want to go back (although a little more sewing time would be good).
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