Dec/Jan Winner and February Contest
Our December/January “Self Portrait with Yarn/Knits” yielded quite a smattering of amusing and lovely pictures, but we’ve narrowed it down to one:
(though we do feel that our dear friend and teacher Parna deserves an honorable mention.)
Laura (with help from her friend Mr. Pretty) has won a skein of Indie Dyer Superwash Fingering Merino in a mysterious (and beautiful) color, one Lantern Moon crocheted cake key chain, and a Soak sampler in Aquae, all tucked into a cute little baggy.
February, as you know, is all about love (though if you disagree, we’ve got something for that too.) Some things we love at Twisted?
1) Chrissy Gardiner
2) Socks
3) Hearing your crazy knitting stories
Last week in our video interview we asked Chrissy Gardiner to name the craziest place she’d ever knitted (you’ll have to watch it if you want to know the answer!) Now, we want to ask you too.
What is the wildest, craziest, most ridiculous place you’ve gotten down and dirty with a pair of needles (or a crochet hook) and some yarn?
Post your answer in the comments and the two (yes TWO!) winners will be chosen by popular Twisted-employee vote at the end of the month. We will reward your intrepid devotion to fiber arts with an autographed copy of Chrissy’s crazy-wonderful book, “Toe-up!”
Good luck!
(Another thing we love at Twisted? This insane picture of the craziest place that Star has ever knitted:
At least, I ASSUME it’s the craziest. But who knows with that gal. There’s no stoppin’ her.)
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The craziest place was this: I had a very intimate (and uncomfortable) procedure performed by my OB/GYN, and I knit through the whole thing to distract me. He was very surprised!
Oh the craziest? I knit 2 feet from my husband while he had an appointment with a urologist (while we were undergoing infertility treatment). This lovely appt included a ‘milking of the prostate gland’… ie: finger up the butt. I just kept knitting and knitting and knitting. (and kept my eyes on the yarn.
How had I never noticed the caption on Parna’s picture??!! That is hysterical.
I haven’t been knitting for very long, so I haven’t gotten nearly as dirty with it as I probably will. However, if you consider knitting on a public train dirty, then there it is.
I can’t compete with those crazy knitting stories! I live on an island and knit on the ferry all the time. Maybe it’s just crazy to live on an island 80 minutes from the mainland. Once in Boston I was on the T. I was knitting along on a hat, watched closely by a little girl across from me. I finished it and put it on my head and watched her eyes go wide. Still not too crazy. Oh, well. Thanks for offering the books. I’m happy to find a new blog to check out.
The craziest place I ever knit was at the oncologist’s office throughout chemo. The reason was to keep my mind off the horrors of chemo. All the nurses would come over to ask what I was doing (and, I suspect, because they were afraid the IV would come out). It did help me get through a particularly awful period of my life. The only down side was that I felt I could always smell the chemicals oozing out of my pores and I was afraid that it would permenantly make my socks smell.
On the back of a 65 foot catamaran, private cruise in the British Virgin Islands. I should have been swimming. But I don’t swim very well, so this seemed like the next best option!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/20313757@N07/2773124545/
(February Baby Sweater, Sublime DK yarn from Twisted, of course!)
Well this isn’t very crazy, but I did start my own little knitting group at my daughter’s gymnastics class. I brought my knitting the first day, and other moms joined in the following weeks! It was fun to hang out and clickity click while our daughters tumbled.
Okay, seriously, how can ANYONE beat that photo of Star?!? I love that girl.
Oh yeah- I think you get bonus points for photographic proof! Unless you’re Jocelyn or Korin, in which case… we’ll just take your word for it.
Knit a hat while walking in the Livestrong walk for cancer research. Gratified to learn that while I cannot walk and chew gum, I can walk and do stockinette on a circular needle.
well, Em, you are forcing me to link to THIS picture of you on the beach:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/18285092@N08/4339741342/
(i hope that link works!)
My photo has more skin but less boobage… and less yarn…
My mom and I knit the on the Rubicon Trail, which is a 10 point trail in the Sierras, with 200 + rock climbin’ Jeeps. Whenever we had to wait for someone in front of us to be wenched up the hill, my mom and I would sit next to each other and knit away.
Well the most ridiculous place I ever knitted was at the car lot. I put the yarn in my boot and walked the lot with my friend all the while I Knitted away. People would stare at me and point, some asked me what I was doing, that was cool. I was relaxed and having no care to the yada yada the men were saying. My friend was so picky that I got a whole scarf done. What made it so ridiculous was that I kept bumping into cars, I mean they were just jumping out for all over at me lol
My fiancée and I felt it was incumbent upon us to open the eyes of a friend of ours, an innocent, young man. She suggested that the two of us take him to a strip club, and I insisted that, as a man, it be one that would have good, cheap steak.
We took a housemate of ours along with us on this cheerful romp, and I sat back as my friends took in the view. I was grateful that the smoking ban had come in to effect as I pulled out my knitting and worked on my sock yarn scarf— the second project I had ever started.
Not really a crazy place to knit, but definitely exotic (for me). On a JR train between Ueda and Bessho Onsen, Nagano Prefecture, Japan. As the only gaijin on the train, I figured I already stuck out, so I might as well knit a hat. =)
I knit at a Super Bowl party once. I didn’t think it was all that crazy, but the other attendees thought I was rather nuts. I did manage not to get pizza sauce on the white blanket!
The craziest place I have ever knitted is probably a field in Ireland with sheep! The group I was with gave me quite a hard time about my knitting but who had two pairs of socks by the end of the trip I ask you?
My dentist let me knit a sock while he filled 3 cavities. Every time I would start to tense up, he would yell over the drill “keep knitting! keep knitting!” I think that is the fasted I have ever knit!
Joshin, you maniac!
I am so tame. I’ve knit while walking to work, and while at the movies, but never during medical procedures and never on a rollercoaster.
I knit while I Activate!
As a frequent campaign staffer/volunteer I often spend hours on the phone talking to voters. On two different campaigns now I’ve had the occasion to use the predictive dialer, Activate. Because the dialer is doing all the work my hand are free to, well, knit.
It always amuses people in the office to see me talking to voters, and knitting. During the last campaign I worked on, television news crews came by to film the busy campaign staff and volunteers, and were absolutely fascinated with my multitasking…unfortunately the footage didn’t actually end up making the cut for the evening news.
i was knitting socks for a friend who was quite ill and she passed away before i could finish them. i was majorly disappointed that she didn’t get them before passing because she was beyond excited to receive her first ever knitted gift. since i really wanted her to have them, i knit during her entire wake and finished them just in time to get them into the coffin with her before she went six feet under. some of the looks i got of the other mourners were of extreme horror (how insensitive they all thought) but i know my friend is out somewhere dancing with her hand knit socks.
The place I’ve felt strangest knitting was waiting for a mammogram while in those little light green gowns – and with my socks on.
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