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This site is a member of WebRing. To browse visit here. Thursday, February 01, 2007 I meet another knitter I've been rather ostentatiously knitting in public at the local coffee shop, hoping someone would announce that he or she too was a knitter (and preferably a sock knitter), but without success. But today I met another knitter there, though what attracted his attention to me was not what I was knitting. I hadn't even gotten the current sock out of its ziplock bag yet. What he noticed was the rainbow striped scarf and hat I was wearing, which are indeed hand-knitted, though not by me. They caught his eye from across the room, and he came over to ask if I had made them. I showed him instead the Chain Link socks I'm still working on, a day past the deadline for having them finished.We talked for a long time, mostly about the things he had made over the years--large numbers of scarves and sweaters for his wife and daughters, and one year, 53 Christmas stockings to sell at a craft fair, better than one a week. I was feeling very much out of my league, with my paltry record of hats, socks, a few sweaters and a couple of baby afghans. But then he glanced down at the cuff of my sock and said wistfully, "But I've never made socks." Nor, it turned out, had he ever done any felting. So I did have something to contribute to the conversation.He said he'd bring his current knitting project with him the next time he visited the coffee shop, so perhaps we'll run into each other again and have a chance to knit together. And just maybe, some others will join us and there will be a real local knitting group. I know there are many other knitters here, but there hasn't seemed to be any kind of socializing among them. I'd love to organize a regular Saturday morning "stitch 'n' bitch" session.I'm down to the heel on the second Chain Link sock, so perhaps it will eventually be finished. This particular pair of socks has been more of a chore than I anticipated, but I'm really looking forward to wearing them.Next pair, or rather the next two pairs, will be the next Six Sox Knitalong pair, and the red and white variegated Opal I'm knitting up for my youngest. I haven't decided whether to try any kind of pattern for Kay's socks. The yarn is more checkered than variegated, with about an inch of red alternating with an inch of white. But I think Grumperina's Jaywalkers might work. The Six SOx pattern is called Springtime in Paris, and is a neat reversible pattern with a vaguely Eiffel Tower-shaped design on one side, and a vaguely flower-shaped design if you turn them inside out. I have some navy wool I want to use up, but with a name like "Springtime in Paris," one hates to make them in such a dark color. On the other hand, my sock yarn stash is already multiplying behind my back, so I'm reluctant to add to it. I plan to visit another Local Yarn Store next week, so perhaps my arm will be twisted to acquire something more springlike. posted by Liz @ 1:00 PM | The template is set to display 10 posts. To see all the posts for this month, click on the month name in the Archive section RSS Feed PERSONAL Send email toliz at life-as-a-spectator-sport.com Home I'm a mother, grandmother, a computer professional, Democrat, Christian. I welcome politely worded comments and email, my spam filter throws the rest away, so don't bother to flame me WHY 'LIFE AS A SPECTATOR SPORT' "If you're lucky not to live in the gutters of a slum, but still can't afford to take vacations in the Alps, you're part of that enormous middle class who lives life through the medium of the television, further separated from "real" life by air conditioner, by automobile, by dishwasher, microwave and ice-in-the-door refrigerator, by automatic washer and dryer, and all the other appliances and conveniences that make it possible for America to live life at second hand. I'm not sure why Americans decided that televised drama was better than the real thing, that cardboard microwave food containers were an adequate substitute for real dishes, and their contents for real food, or that cooking, dishwashing and face-to-face conversation wasn't worth the effort and time it required. Someone fed this nation a plastic crate of out-of-season tomatoes and told us it was life and we took them at their word, and we're so much the poorer for it that it's hard to know where to start to list the shortcomings." I wrote this a couple of years ago, but I have to admit it's much less amusing than I thought it would be to see the artifical construct falling apart. 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I've been rather ostentatiously knitting in public at the local coffee shop, hoping someone would announce that he or she too was a knitter (and preferably a sock knitter), but without success. But today I met another knitter there, though what attracted his attention to me was not what I was knitting. I hadn't even gotten the current sock out of its ziplock bag yet. What he noticed was the rainbow striped scarf and hat I was wearing, which are indeed hand-knitted, though not by me. They caught his eye from across the room, and he came over to ask if I had made them. I showed him instead the Chain Link socks I'm still working on, a day past the deadline for having them finished.We talked for a long time, mostly about the things he had made over the years--large numbers of scarves and sweaters for his wife and daughters, and one year, 53 Christmas stockings to sell at a craft fair, better than one a week. I was feeling very much out of my league, with my paltry record of hats, socks, a few sweaters and a couple of baby afghans. But then he glanced down at the cuff of my sock and said wistfully, "But I've never made socks." Nor, it turned out, had he ever done any felting. So I did have something to contribute to the conversation.He said he'd bring his current knitting project with him the next time he visited the coffee shop, so perhaps we'll run into each other again and have a chance to knit together. And just maybe, some others will join us and there will be a real local knitting group. I know there are many other knitters here, but there hasn't seemed to be any kind of socializing among them. I'd love to organize a regular Saturday morning "stitch 'n' bitch" session.I'm down to the heel on the second Chain Link sock, so perhaps it will eventually be finished. This particular pair of socks has been more of a chore than I anticipated, but I'm really looking forward to wearing them.Next pair, or rather the next two pairs, will be the next Six Sox Knitalong pair, and the red and white variegated Opal I'm knitting up for my youngest. I haven't decided whether to try any kind of pattern for Kay's socks. The yarn is more checkered than variegated, with about an inch of red alternating with an inch of white. But I think Grumperina's Jaywalkers might work. The Six SOx pattern is called Springtime in Paris, and is a neat reversible pattern with a vaguely Eiffel Tower-shaped design on one side, and a vaguely flower-shaped design if you turn them inside out. I have some navy wool I want to use up, but with a name like "Springtime in Paris," one hates to make them in such a dark color. On the other hand, my sock yarn stash is already multiplying behind my back, so I'm reluctant to add to it. I plan to visit another Local Yarn Store next week, so perhaps my arm will be twisted to acquire something more springlike.
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WHY 'LIFE AS A SPECTATOR SPORT'
"If you're lucky not to live in the gutters of a slum, but still can't afford to take vacations in the Alps, you're part of that enormous middle class who lives life through the medium of the television, further separated from "real" life by air conditioner, by automobile, by dishwasher, microwave and ice-in-the-door refrigerator, by automatic washer and dryer, and all the other appliances and conveniences that make it possible for America to live life at second hand. I'm not sure why Americans decided that televised drama was better than the real thing, that cardboard microwave food containers were an adequate substitute for real dishes, and their contents for real food, or that cooking, dishwashing and face-to-face conversation wasn't worth the effort and time it required. Someone fed this nation a plastic crate of out-of-season tomatoes and told us it was life and we took them at their word, and we're so much the poorer for it that it's hard to know where to start to list the shortcomings." I wrote this a couple of years ago, but I have to admit it's much less amusing than I thought it would be to see the artifical construct falling apart.
THE NON-ELECTRIC HOME
Cleaning, 1 Cleaning, 2 Cleaning, 3
KNITTING BLOGS
Extravayarnza Knitting Heretic Mind of Winter Pie Knits Persistent Illusion See Eunny Knit The Keyboard Biologist Taleweaver's Ramblings TECHnitting Wendy Knits
FINISHED PROJECTS
SELF-RELIANCE AND THE FUTURE
POLITICAL BLOGS and SITES
BOOKS I'M READING
How to Grow More Vegetables, etc. Small Scale Grain Raising
ARCHIVES
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