Mamma Bear looked up from her Google reader and called the team: Look, there is a blog you’d all like called How to become a Professional Knitter with an occasional series called “A field guide to Knitters.” Sock and Academic Knitters, , Lace and Art knitters, Technique and Charity Knitters, and Fashion and Social Knitters. Complete with Latin!
Butterfly alighted on her shoulder: This is fun. I thought you only read blogs about household organizing and how to teach spelling.
Patternist slid onto the other half of the computer chair: I could see us as technical knitters, because I do love drawing charts to swatch, and trying out new ideas, but Sample knitter finishes things, so that doesn’t quite fit.
Butterfly flew closer to the screen, but not long enough to keep the others from reading it: We don’t sound like fashionistas (sigh.) Too frugal.
Mamma Bear: Well, shawls are hard to keep on the shoulders at the playground, and who has time to keep re-organizing where the health insurance cards are for the kids in new bags? One bag for this Mamma. That reminds me, have you started on the Stay-put shawlette yet?
Editor: Umm, it’s on the to do list.
Patternist: What about Academic Knitters – remember the boyfriend sweater series we did for Dan out of Knitting in the Old Way? He wore them too.
Editor: Well, we all love Piecework Magazine, but we don’t knit folk classics only, and certainly not in authentic yarn, so I don’t think we count.
Mamma Bear: I would love it if we became sock knitters. Nothing is as cozy as wool socks. And the whole family is wearing factory cotton on their feet right now. We could keep sample knitter happy for weeks on end making socks for the whole family, and if we worked off other people’s patterns we wouldn’t have to frog so much, and think of how useful the results would be.
Editor: I don’t think we are actually knitting enough to be classified as a knitter now that we are designing.
Mamma Bear: Well, if we ever come to our senses, I’m voting socks. Mittens are useful too though.
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Good idea Melissa: keep those brain cells for teaching your kids, and making awesome patterns.
” I don’t think we are actually knitting enough to be classified as a knitter now that we are designing.”
Quoted for truth.
I’m also glad to know that I’m not the only person who doesn’t want to switch bags. I like to get a good purse and use it until it falls apart. I try to not even have to carry multiple bags. If I can, I keep the diapers in my purse. I don’t have enough hands and brain cells to handle two bags, a baby, and a toddler.