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magedragonfireI've just recently taken up knitting – for the second time, kind of. I learned how to knit when I was six or seven, you see, but haven't really done anything since my initial not-quite-a-scarf. It wasn't all that hard to pick it back up again, though. I just started two or three weeks ago, and already I've got good stitchwork and am beginning to experiment knitting on circular needles – that is, two needles connected by a big long thread that mean you can sew things like socks and hats.
But why would I try to take up such a habit? It's rather feminine, really, and I tend to eschew things like that. Aside from cooking and baking (and those two really don't even count in this day and age), I don't do much that's classified as girly. Never played with dolls (booooring), never bother with makeup, and I don't even know much about the basics of hairstyling. I do know how to sew and can embroider things, but being handy with a sewing needle is a useful skill. I also have a weakness for crafty, pretty things. But not even this weakness can fully explain why exactly I'm learning to knit.
You see, I want to knit a hat. A cunning hat. A hat such that if a man walks down the street in a hat like it, you know he's not afraid of anything.
It will be a positively garish and ugly thing, and my boyfriend will wear it and love it each minute he does so.
Heck, I might even make one for myself. It'll be awesome.
But why would I try to take up such a habit? It's rather feminine, really, and I tend to eschew things like that. Aside from cooking and baking (and those two really don't even count in this day and age), I don't do much that's classified as girly. Never played with dolls (booooring), never bother with makeup, and I don't even know much about the basics of hairstyling. I do know how to sew and can embroider things, but being handy with a sewing needle is a useful skill. I also have a weakness for crafty, pretty things. But not even this weakness can fully explain why exactly I'm learning to knit.
You see, I want to knit a hat. A cunning hat. A hat such that if a man walks down the street in a hat like it, you know he's not afraid of anything.
It will be a positively garish and ugly thing, and my boyfriend will wear it and love it each minute he does so.
Heck, I might even make one for myself. It'll be awesome.
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Date: 2008-02-11 03:48 pm (UTC)Apparently, back during the WORLD WAR ERAS, nurses at military hospitals used to teach the wounded soldiers to knit so they would have something to do besides complaining to the nurses that they had nothing to do.
I tell myself these things to justify having knitted a scarf for my best friend for Christmas.
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Date: 2008-02-12 02:45 am (UTC)