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January 21, 2004
knit one, purl uh knit another
i spent my monday holiday, with my mother and my step-grandmother florence. mother wanted to go to a store called the "yarn lady", thinking that with florence being the farm-raised, wholly domesticated woman that she is, she'd be tickled. of course mother didn't bother to ask if florence had ever even picked up a knitting needle. she hadn't.
what she didn't count on, was that her 32-year old unmarried childless workaholic urbanite of a daughter, who considers the coffee machine her only useful appliance and take-out food cooking at home, would walk into the yarn lady, let out a little squeal of glee at the hand-loomed, hand-dyed nobby yummy yarn and subsequently rush the crowd of greying ladies to snatch a knitting for beginners tutorial, a pair of #36 needles and 2 skeins of fantastic merino wool and plop down her credit card.
i've been knitting since monday, my fingers are sore and i've had to redo the scarf once already [damn tie off!] and i love it.
and i just know that somewhere there is a spate of exes, girlfriends and family members that are slack-jawed in shock convinced that surely the fourth horse of the apocalypse has, in fact, arrived.
Posted by heidijanet at January 21, 2004 02:28 PM
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I'm not surprised a bit! I know lots of smarties who've gotten into knitting. TONS of great websites out there, too!
http://knitty.com
http://chicknits.com/
http://knit-o-rama.com/
http://www.wendyknits.net/
http://www.knittinggeek.com/
http://www.theredsweater.com/
BTW: I do not knit.
Posted by: Ariel at January 21, 2004 03:54 PM
actually that is horse number five. horse number four showed up last night during the president state of the union address.
Posted by: Martin at January 21, 2004 04:42 PM
Hey Heidi,
You should come by on Sunday around 3:00pm - we're having a "knitting for beginners" get together! Hopefully with some cocktails too after my week. E-mail if you need directions!
Posted by: sarah at January 23, 2004 07:56 PM
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