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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
A problem? Nothing that more knitting can't solve!
Posted by: Michelle at June 29, 2009 04:51 PM
So what did you name your new goat? Or hasn't he officially come home yet?
Oooh. 7,000 knitters.
Or actually, ooooh, lemon meringue pie. My dad made one a couple of months back and he REFUSES to make another. Evidently, it's a lot of work.
Posted by: Carrie K at June 29, 2009 04:55 PM
PS. Maya looks adorable in that sundress.
Posted by: Carrie K at June 29, 2009 04:56 PM
Love her sundress. Love the goat! You know you can always come see me for a goatie fix. But you might have to share some lemon pie with me. And make me a skirt...
Posted by: mindy at June 29, 2009 06:41 PM
What a cute little girl. I did more sewing, when my kids were younger, too. Not so much now. Thanks for the dishcloth pattern. My mom likes southwestern stuff. I think I might knit this dishcloth up in a green color for her.
Posted by: DawnK at June 29, 2009 06:57 PM
lady, that's a lot of (yummy!) pie! congrats on the knitty article and everything else you have going!
Posted by: marri at June 29, 2009 09:25 PM
Oh, but she looks so cute! Is that from weekend sewing? How did you find the sizing on that pattern? (I heard it was a bit tight but it looks great there on Maya.)
Posted by: Wendy at June 29, 2009 11:15 PM
Congrats on the article! I've been so out of it - I haven't even looked at the summer Knitty! Wacky, eh?
For what it's worth, I am the child of someone who knit and sewed. We have wonderful pictures and great memories of it all, and I even saved a few small knit baby items I plan to frame someday.
Maya looks adorable - so go for it!
Posted by: Kath at June 29, 2009 11:57 PM
Seventh sign: there are three mentions of pie, yet not a single photo!
Posted by: Joan at June 30, 2009 02:18 AM
You're lucky you have a girl. Sewing (and knitting) for boys is so unrewarding I'm contemplating kidnapping one just to outfit her in fabulous clothes.
I love that you celebrate by eating a whole pie.
Posted by: Lise at June 30, 2009 08:11 AM
Oh, but she looks so cute! Is that from weekend sewing? How did you find the sizing on that pattern? (I heard it was a bit tight but it looks great there on Maya.)
Posted by: Wendy at June 30, 2009 12:26 PM
I keep trying to tell myself that if I knit faster, it will burn more calories *and* I will get more done. Win-win, right?
Posted by: Clumsy Knitter at June 30, 2009 12:43 PM
pie... pie.... I LOVE THEE SO...
I especially like that little dress maya has on... pattern?
Posted by: Heidi at June 30, 2009 02:27 PM
Simmer rhubarb till tender with the requisite sugar, add (near) equal amounts raspberries and simmer just a bit more. Skip pie crust. Put straight in bowl and eat while laughing over blog posts you so much relate to, from the toddler in the mom-sewn dress (I SO did that!) to the goat at the top.
Posted by: AlisonH at July 1, 2009 08:53 PM
Maya's dress is so cute.
Personally, I like to celebrate with chocolate cake, but I totally understand the deliciousness of pie.
Posted by: Roberta at July 2, 2009 01:58 PM