A lovely account! I still don't understand enough about the knittery to grasp in detail how all of this works, but having compared what you were doing in relation to what my mom's crocheting looked like (and I know they're very different!), you have me convinced that knitting takes a whole other class of person to even contemplate!
Well, I don't know about "a whole different class of person"--I am pursuing knitting in a way little different than I would pursue any other interest, e.g. Germanic Reconstructionist paganism: gather sources, research data, explore findings, apply results, keep what works, repeat.
I think the long-term fling with fiber arts stems, in part, from a lament I had awhile ago: as a system administrator for a living, my task was rarely to create, always to maintain--and I wanted to be part of the beginning and end as much as the middle.
So here we are.
With the current project of exploring knitting as she is spoke in Nordic countries, I get to cross two interests at once--hooray! Moreover, with Seattle these two interests get to cross-breed in a part of the country that my internal Peanut Gallery finds most appealing. You pointed out only the day after this that Puget Sound was a fjord, to which there was a resounding internal chorus of assent, all infernally smug.
The above explanation of the existential angst associated with the process makes greater sense to me now in relation to the movements of the yarn and needles I observed you doing.
Well, right, which is why I threw down metaphors that would make more sense in the subcultures shared among Garuda's passengers: D&D item descriptions make sense when "sticks that twiddle string" don't. ;)
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Date: 2007-10-14 06:09 am (UTC)Well, I don't know about "a whole different class of person"--I am pursuing knitting in a way little different than I would pursue any other interest, e.g. Germanic Reconstructionist paganism: gather sources, research data, explore findings, apply results, keep what works, repeat.
I think the long-term fling with fiber arts stems, in part, from a lament I had awhile ago: as a system administrator for a living, my task was rarely to create, always to maintain--and I wanted to be part of the beginning and end as much as the middle.
So here we are.
With the current project of exploring knitting as she is spoke in Nordic countries, I get to cross two interests at once--hooray! Moreover, with Seattle these two interests get to cross-breed in a part of the country that my internal Peanut Gallery finds most appealing. You pointed out only the day after this that Puget Sound was a fjord, to which there was a resounding internal chorus of assent, all infernally smug.
The above explanation of the existential angst associated with the process makes greater sense to me now in relation to the movements of the yarn and needles I observed you doing.
Well, right, which is why I threw down metaphors that would make more sense in the subcultures shared among Garuda's passengers: D&D item descriptions make sense when "sticks that twiddle string" don't. ;)
Thanks for replying!
-- Lorrie