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June 29, 2009
Six Signs Knitting Has Taken Over Your Life
1. Each family outing ends with you contemplating your vice craft of the day. Sometimes you may even make suggestions to that end. Things like "lets just pop in this small zoo so Mama Maya can see the
goats Bears".
2. Work up the nerve to submit an article to the first online knitting magazine you ever read. When you are overwhelmed by the positive response when it's published in Knitty, celebrate with pie.
3. Learn to spin and enjoy learning-to-knit nostalgia. I'll never stop loving the look of a simple stockinette scarf. Knit snobs take note.
4. Get over your inner pangs of terror about writing a pattern nearly 7,000 knitters will knit by eating an entire Lemon Meringue Pie.
5. Rediscover crafty hobbies of old and resume them with gusto. Ignore whinging Husbands and Children when they want to know when you're going to stop sewing yourself skirts and fix dinner. Give them the number to the closest Take Out Establishment and shoo them away.
6. Replace "Just one more row" with "Just one more seam." Immediately buy more fabric/roving/yarn when you see how cute your kid looks in handmade clothes. Sew your newest skirt in the next size up from all the pie celebrations.
7. Pick a new hobby that burns more calories. Celebrate with pie.
Posted by Michelle at June 29, 2009 03:38 PM
Comments
I can indeed relate. Though with me, it's usually seeing a sweater on TV and mentally redesigning it. Or seeing a sewn garment and thinking it would look better knit. I may have a problem
Posted by: Ida at June 29, 2009 04:49 PM