The First Rule of Knit Club is…, originally uploaded by Eleven 22.
You don’t talk about Knit Club. The second rule of Knit club is… You don’t fucking talk about Knit Club. And the last rule is… if this is your first night at Knit Club — You have to Knit!
Okay, so I am no Brad Pitt (its the hair right? LOL). What the hell am I doing you might be wondering. Knitting of all things. The next question is logically — Why?
One word: marytree. Yup, our favorite artistic free spirit is a knitter, and at one of the parties we attended we began to talk about her knitting projects.
She said she could teach me to knit, I scoffed. Me? Knit? Why don’t you just cut my balls off I thought. But, she had planted a seed in me head, and the ball of yarn just kept growing.
It came to a head when Karin dragged us along to a book signing, as Maverick, Betty and I circled in the back, perusing the books I came to the craft section, and as luck would have it, a book on how to knit.
I walked by it a few times, finally uttered something under my breath and decided to buy it. You couldn’t have seen two more surprised looks when Karin and her mom saw what I had bought walking to our cars.
So when Karin was away at her conference, and the three boys I was watching were slowing driving me insane, I took them to Michael to get some sort of craft item to keep them busy, and while I was there, bought some yarn and needles.
The first yarn and needles I bought were not as I would soon find out, rank amateur friendly. So I went back and did what any good man would do, bought bigger. Way bigger. Much better results.
So what you see here is the end of my first roll of yarn, its going to be a scarf for Karin, a small token if you will to pave the road toward my iPhone purchase.
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August 6th, 2007 at 5:44 am
BTW, regarding the swearing, it was a quote/take off from Fight Club.
August 6th, 2007 at 11:34 am
Amazing. I am so very proud of you. I guess I really have to have the Knit-In now. It looks wonderful. Wonder what I would have to do for an iphone.