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- Jun 23, 2016
When a real man is cold he tracks down a ball of yarn, buys it, and rips off its cardboard holder thing and out it's thread. Discuss knitting and display your crafts.
When I was younger my family called me the wool weaver. After I got married my wife's family called me the great white knitter. Now I don't particularly care for it anymore, but I have kids that want to knit so I go with them. My kids have been knitting since they were three. A couple of years ago the middle child decided he wanted to go knitting. The eldest is only interested in crocheting, but the younger two like to go knitting. I rarely even use a knitting needle now days. If something needs knit I tell the middle kid to go get his needles and he takes care of it for me.
Today I was walking out back to look at something and I saw some yarn. Middle kid had been pestering me about wanting to go hat knitting so I walked back up to the house and told him to get his needles. Yes my children have access to knitting needles, but they probably have more experience with them than most of you reading this. True knitting needle safety is teaching kids how to use a knitting needle and how not to from an early age.
Any one of my kids would have got it on the first knit, and been less messy, and probably would have used more polite exclamations.
We had trouble because there are still too many doilies on the furniture, but she managed to bag two with her great grandmother's knitting needle. That needle has served my family well through the generations. She wants to graduate from small crafts like socks and scarves and move to sweaters. She's used my sweater needle (double point) no problem so I haven't decided whether to start her on that or the straight needle I bought for my first sweater as a kid. She want's a circular needle, but I'll start her off with something I already have. I should make her get a job to buy the circular needle like I did to buy my straight needle.
I'm done rambling. Now it's your turn.
When I was younger my family called me the wool weaver. After I got married my wife's family called me the great white knitter. Now I don't particularly care for it anymore, but I have kids that want to knit so I go with them. My kids have been knitting since they were three. A couple of years ago the middle child decided he wanted to go knitting. The eldest is only interested in crocheting, but the younger two like to go knitting. I rarely even use a knitting needle now days. If something needs knit I tell the middle kid to go get his needles and he takes care of it for me.
Today I was walking out back to look at something and I saw some yarn. Middle kid had been pestering me about wanting to go hat knitting so I walked back up to the house and told him to get his needles. Yes my children have access to knitting needles, but they probably have more experience with them than most of you reading this. True knitting needle safety is teaching kids how to use a knitting needle and how not to from an early age.
We had trouble because there are still too many doilies on the furniture, but she managed to bag two with her great grandmother's knitting needle. That needle has served my family well through the generations. She wants to graduate from small crafts like socks and scarves and move to sweaters. She's used my sweater needle (double point) no problem so I haven't decided whether to start her on that or the straight needle I bought for my first sweater as a kid. She want's a circular needle, but I'll start her off with something I already have. I should make her get a job to buy the circular needle like I did to buy my straight needle.
I'm done rambling. Now it's your turn.
