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A short cultural history in yarn

Posted in Craftwork, Knitting, tagged , , , , , , on 10 May, 2010 | 4 Comments »

Some people attribute the earliest examples of knitting to Christian Coptics in Egypt in the 3rd or 4th centuries; others consider the earliest knitters to be Muslims working for royal families in Christian Spain in the 13th century. (note 1) Partly, it depends on whether you consider items like those below to be knitted.  They [...]

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Not working, knitting

Posted in Craftwork, Knitting, tagged , , on 1 March, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

It’s 1:00pm on Monday afternoon and instead of working I’m knitting. Because the closing ceremony of the Vancouver Olympics is only hours away and the border of my putative bathmat needs to be twice as wide before the flame is out. Trying not to brood on the hours I lost last night having to rip back [...]

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Going for (solid) gold

Posted in Craftwork, Knitting, Philosophy and culture, tagged , , , on 16 February, 2010 | 7 Comments »

My favourite famous knitter and Canadian citizen, the Yarn Harlot (aka Stephanie Pearl-McPhee), has convened the second Knitting Olympics and I’m competing.  The challenge? You must cast on a project during the Opening Ceremonies of the Winter Olympics, Friday, February 12, 2010 and finish before the Olympic flame goes out Sunday, February 28. That’s 17 days. [...]

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Needles on a plane

Posted in Craftwork, Knitting, tagged , , , , , , , on 17 January, 2010 | 6 Comments »

On Christmas Eve, Australian knitters got the Christmas present they’d been waiting for.  The Australian Government finally removed knitting needles from the list of items prohibited on a plane. It’s been a sore point for many years that famous knitters in North America like Stephanie Pearl McPhee could swan on to a plane with an armoury of [...]

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Socks and jocks

Posted in Craftwork, Knitting, tagged , on 22 December, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Well, the car’s half packed, the wine’s chilling, the presents are wrapped and the socks knitted.  Here’s the pair I showed you before, all ready for my brother (no need to worry about spoiling surprises; no-one from my family and few of my friends read this blog). My brother’s not usually on a first name basis with yellow (I [...]

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Knitting Xmas presents on Bondi Beach

Posted in How to live, Knitting, Philosophy and culture, tagged , , , , on 26 November, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Am in my home town, Sydney,  for a few days.  Whenever I come back, I spend the first few hours wondering how me and my curly hair were ever born and raised here.  And then the sub-tropical languor gets in and I put on my mental shorts and let my hair go crazy. Yesterday in [...]

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Call that a knife?

Posted in Art and exhibitions, Craftwork, Knitting, Philosophy and culture, tagged , , , , on 19 November, 2009 | 5 Comments »

Scene from Crocodile Dundee.  Hoges (alias Mick Dundee) is walking along New York street with Linda K (alias whatsername).  Young guy walks up asking for a light, and … (pulls out knife) … Mick’s wallet. Linda: Mick, give him your wallet. Mick: What for? Linda: He’s got a knife Mick (laughs): That’s not a knife … [...]

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