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lady_ganesh ([info]lady_ganesh) wrote in [info]otf_wank,
@ 2009-08-24 14:02:00


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No one wanks as hard as knitters do. Except maybe spinners.
Blogger Sharon Pelletier writes a satirical post about a local spinning event at her library.

Not everyone is impressed.

At this point, I don't feel that you are a decent person because you failed in being mature enough to go outside your comfort zone, and instead chose to call names.

Though there is still some disagreement in the ranks:

Knitting "networking" sites like Ravelry have congealed knitters into a writhing, slimy glob of Bitch that ooze across the internet wielding knitting needles and a smug sense of superiority.

76 mostly angry comments later, she posts a follow-up explaining that no, she was trying to be funny, she does not think PETA needed to be informed, and she really does not think spinners are witches, either.

Reaction so far is mostly positive, though you never know with knitters, spinners and even those rebellious crocheters.

ETA a verb. Verbs are important.


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[info]negativecosine
2009-08-25 01:49 am UTC (link)
The 57648 comments of "I tried to crochet and cannnn't" are driving me crazy because I teach crochet at my local yarn store and my response to this in real life is "Come to my class! It's free! I will be patient and encouraging and sneakily show you where we keep the yarn that's NOT made of god's magic pubic hairs!" And I really want to now, but I can't, and wah. I love bonding with people while we're all totally ruining yarn together. :(


...But the wank is, you know, adorable in the way that only fiberwank can be. I just want to pinch everyone's little cheeks and remind them that you can't knit/crochet/spin while you type, and that's why we need to do this kind of thing in person.

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[info]lady_ganesh
2009-08-25 01:52 am UTC (link)
I WOULD LET YOU TEACH ME. I keep thinking one of these days I'll just try to make pet blankets out of baby-melting acrylic and I'll just get it by OSMOSIS.

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[info]negativecosine
2009-08-25 01:53 am UTC (link)
I WOULD BE THRILLED! I am always thrilled to teach, it makes me feel way less of an evil capitalist than aggressively selling pubichairyarn to people who probably really just need Simply Soft.

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[info]lady_ganesh
2009-08-25 01:55 am UTC (link)
I do like the fancy schmancy yarns, though. Especially sock yarn. Oh yes.

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[info]negativecosine
2009-08-25 01:57 am UTC (link)
I get all wish-fulfillmenty when I'm selling. Like. "HERE. PLEASE BUY THIS, BECAUSE I WANT TO BUT CAN'T AFFORD IT. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE BUY IT AND SHOW ME WHAT YOU MAKE OUT OF IT AND LET ME FONDLE IT FOREVER." Etc. I walk out of that place feeling ashamed and a little yarnhorny, like an ugly waiter at a strip joint.

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[info]beccastareyes
2009-08-25 02:15 am UTC (link)
This is why I don't visit the yarn store that often* -- too many pretty things that are far too expensive for me to do anything with for myself, and all of my friends seem to like the cheap acrylic stuff because it's easily washable and not likely to trigger allergies. I'm the same way about the remnants bin in Jo Anns.

* Though if I need anything lighter than sport weight that is not the three (variegated) colors of sock yarn the chain stores near me sell, that store is my friend.

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[info]lady_ganesh
2009-08-25 02:16 am UTC (link)
Knitpicks has a lot of superwash at decent prices. Their catalog is awfully tempting, even though it's not as succulent as LYS yarn.

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[info]negativecosine
2009-08-25 02:18 am UTC (link)
If I wasn't, y'know, employed there, I would not shop at my LYS. But the employee discount honestly makes it about equal to what I'm able to get at Michael's or JoAnn's or whatever and for nicer fibers, too. But then it's hard not to just leave my whole freaking paycheck there, which it would be alarmingly easy to do...

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[info]beccastareyes
2009-08-25 02:27 am UTC (link)
It helps that I have no time to make things, so I can usually talk myself out of impulse buys.

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[info]negativecosine
2009-08-25 03:40 am UTC (link)
Do you ever have class/time on public transit/time with friends who make things? Loooooong lecture classes are definitely the best.

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[info]beccastareyes
2009-08-25 01:12 pm UTC (link)
A friend and I would bring stuff to lectures if we weren't taking notes. Because otherwise I fall asleep.

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[info]tephra
2009-08-25 05:13 am UTC (link)
I have discovered that I am incapable of watching TV without a knitting (or crochet, but usually knitting) project in hand. Now if I just watched more TV I might finish things larger than socks or hats....

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ealusaid
2009-08-25 07:32 am UTC (link)
I'm confused because I was taught to crochet as a child, as were my brothers, and none of us had any issues with it. Well, other than the part where we all got bored, but we were like that with any handicraft. Is it really so hard?

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[info]negativecosine
2009-08-25 07:39 am UTC (link)
I've had people who spent the entire hour of classtime struggling with just making the chain. Some people just have a harder time with the spatial relations than others, I guess.

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[info]lady_ganesh
2009-08-25 12:33 pm UTC (link)
I suspect the "as a child" is also a big factor. Like languages, I suspect it's one of those things that gets harder as you get older. Plus kids don't expect things to be perfect on the first try the way adults can.

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[info]istaerlus
2009-08-26 10:46 pm UTC (link)
But crochet is the easy fiber art (or it is for me anyway). It's like the one I can do while I'm wishing I knew how to knit.

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[info]marsdragon
2009-09-17 06:24 am UTC (link)
My big problem learning crochet was keeping the number of stitches the same from row to row. My sister has a scarf that goes in and out where I kept making too few stitches, then over correcting, then going back... Then again, I was also in sixth grade at the time. I could probably do better today, but I'm pretty happy just knitting. I can barely get anything done as-is.

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[info]negativecosine
2009-09-17 06:27 am UTC (link)
The trick is to only treat it like a stitch if it looks like a little pair of legs. And then snicker quietly to yourself about that while you're doing it, that helps.

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