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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]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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