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Up until 2K, I was like Rupunzel, sitting in my ivory tower,
surrounded by yarn and UFOs. The garments I knit were dull
and conventional, straying little from the written patterns
I found in magazines or old books. Blah, blah, blah, blah,
blah.
Then one day in 2K, I got an email from Brenda, a member
of a listserv I belonged to called Webgrrls. This listserv
was for the advocacy of tech women and had a huge subscription,
mainly web folk, geeks and their minion. This email was an
invitaiton to meet somewhere and sit around knitting, stichin
'n bitchin.
Cool, I thought, lets geekspeak and network. And I came out
of the tower and haven't been back since! The first project
I brought to the group was a big sweatshirt type hoodie I
was making out of recycled yarn (a huge sweater that made
the rounds in my family, sitting on various closet shelves).
I tore it apart (GASP) washed the yarn, and re-knit it into
my homey  bathrobe/2K2housecoat
and the chain was broken.
No more would I be shackled to the instructions letter by
letter, ball band or brand! I started combining several strands
of yarn to get texture, color or weight. One of my friends
brought me to a yarn shop up north where the owner wrote you
a custom pattern to fit YOUR frame and I saw how geek knitting
really was!!! Mathematics royale, digital even, one stitch
by one stitch at a time, building into a complex creation
using the most simple of movements and materials.
MORAL: Find a Knitting Group and join it or --- Start your
own! Teach one friend to knit and get together and you are
a group. Ask at your Local Yarn Shop. Put out the word and
you'll be surprised at how many people will want to find you
and make something with their hands .
Your universe will never be the same!
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