KnitWit: Rantings of a Rabid Knitter

Comment by C4G

April 9, 2007 @ 12:19 pm

Nice one! LMAO! Thanks for the reminder to check out the local stores for egg dye sales….yeeeeeaahhh!!!
Loved the storie of stereotyping! I too would rather stay home, watch a movie, and knit alone. I’ve stopped going to the local Knitters Guild because it is SO DARNED BORING!!! UGH! They have venders too, but all they ever bring are the most expensive yarns they carry!! Hello! I knit, but that does not mean I have $100 bills coming out of my arsh just to spend on your most expensive yarns!! That’s another stereotype. If you knit, spin or weave, you must have money to blow. NOT!! Egh…I spin most of what I knit anyways (except cotton because it just takes too long to spin up). And what I could spend on enough yarn for one project, I could purchase several whole raw fleeces that would produce 10 times as much yarn to work with!!! *Big eye roll* BLAH!! LMAO

Comment by mike

April 10, 2007 @ 12:05 am

I liked this episode

A couple questions though: Your high school teachers actually let you knit in class? That’s pretty surprising to me. I feel like their instinct as teachers would be to tell you that it distracted too much. But I guess obviously if you showed them it wouldn’t be a problem, that they wouldn’t have any complains

Also, you talked about how you were glad that you had enough yarn to finish your project. What happens if you /don’t/ have enough yarn? How do you continue from where you left off. You can’t knot it, can you?

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Good questions. In high school, I was one of the few students who would participate in class. So they did not question whether I could knit and pay attention.
As far a the sweater goes, if I don’t have enough yarn to finish how I have currently envisioned it, I will have to go to a back-up plan. I have a couple of back-up plans. These plans depend on how short I am in yarn. If I am just a little short, I will make the edging different. If I am a lot short, I will unravel the sweater and make it shorter. The yarn was mill-ends so I can’t buy more. I will just adjust. There will be a sweater one way or another.

Carry.

Comment by toya

April 12, 2007 @ 9:11 am

I totally agree with you, I am not a social dora even though I like meeting people, I usually knit alone at home and that is my peaceful tranquil time, I’m 25 and african american so you could imagine some of the experiences I’ve had,,, great podcast I will recommend this episode for our listeners, it was very interesting

Comment by Kori

April 12, 2007 @ 9:22 am

Thank you for the easter present

Would you provide a written version of your method? I think I might like to try, but am very much a visual person when it comes to directions. . .

Comment by Amy

April 12, 2007 @ 1:12 pm

Yours is one of my favorite podcasts and I look forward to it every week.

I agree that there is a lot of emphasis on social knitting, young/hip knitting, etc. right now which sometimes neglects the seasoned, classic knitter. I often knit in a group with people of all ages, interests, and abilities, but I also enjoy private knitting and know other knitters who feel the same way. Some people feel a need to follow every current trend and latest Knitty pattern, and some are very content doing their own thing.

Regarding your Knitty Gritty comment, I’ve met Vickie and she is a long-time knitter like you who is very excited about keeping the craft alive in the next generations - and she has a platform to do that. The next generations are very big on social networking of all types… but I don’t think she was intentionally invalidating your knitting experience. Keep on with what you do - you don’t strike me as a conformist in any way and there’s no reason to start now!

I really enjoy how frank and honest you are in your podcast. I only wish I lived on the East Coast so I could join you with my big fucking flower too!!

Comment by Sherry W

April 18, 2007 @ 10:33 am

Only a slight disagreement, you kind of suggest that all the coffeehouse knitters are young skinny hipsters. I’m 35 and one of the youngest in my local knitting groups. We come in all sizes, too.

Comment by Katrina

April 23, 2008 @ 11:57 am

I’ve been gone for a while. I lost my job last year, and so things have been pretty unpredictable for me.

But now I’m back. I’ve got another sit-down-at-the-computer-all-day job and it’s boring…boring enough for me to find plenty of time for podcasts! Yes!

I hope you don’t mind getting lots of comments from me concerning your old podcasts as I begin catching up because I do indeed plan on listening to everything I missed over the last year.