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KarenB
Seriously Hooked
750 Posts |
 Posted - 08/31/2005 : 08:32:57 AM
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In a previous thread, a member said "This place [KR] has made a knitter out of me (in my mind), rather than just someone who knows how to knit."
A significant distinction that prompts me to ask: At what point did you make the leap from "I Know How To Knit" to "I Am A Knitter"?
For me recognition dawned when I cast on for a pair socks with no directions, only an idea in my head -- which in hindsight is not especially difficult, but speaks to me nonetheless of a skilled, confident, creative artisan. I had become A Knitter.
Karen
My knitting photos: http://photobucket.com/albums/a100/karenknits/ |
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mands1229
Chatty Knitter
USA
216 Posts |
Posted - 08/31/2005 : 08:49:45 AM
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Karen,
I've had moments like that (with the sock) but for me it was when I started dreaming about projects...literally dreaming at night, while asleep. I would wake up at 2 in the morning with ideas for patterns that might work someday. Now, I'm not yet enough of a knitter to bring those ideas to fruition, but I will be someday. Until then...I'm an intermediate knitter. :)
http://kyknitter.blogspot.com/
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amandaCO
Gabber Extraordinaire
USA
530 Posts |
Posted - 08/31/2005 : 10:49:07 AM
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| I can't remember a time that I wasn't a knitter. Or what I was before. But, I always feel distinctly knitterly when I hear DH talk about me to others, or ask me what my plans are for the week/weekend etc. It's usually something like "she's busy knitting," "she has knitting plans those nights (insert many days of the week)," "who are all the knitters coming over," "should I cook for the knitters?" etc. |
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franna724
Seriously Hooked
USA
633 Posts |
Posted - 08/31/2005 : 11:13:31 AM
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I felt that I became a knitter when I realized that knitting was something I wanted to do on a regular basis...and when yarn, needles, and patterns started taking over my house. :D
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Milinda
Permanent Resident
USA
3816 Posts |
Posted - 08/31/2005 : 12:21:47 PM
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I learned to knit very early in my life and it is something that I pretty much always do, meaning that I often line my day up around time to knit, thinking about knitting or wanting to knit. Throughout my life, I have had other hobbies and have dabbled in many arts and crafts. But it was just that, I tried to learn, practiced or picked up the hobby from time to time. I do not consider myself a seamstress but I do know how to sew. I love to paint but I am not as good at it as I would want to be so I don't even say I know how to paint well. However, knitting I can do with little thought and it gives me great pleasure and peace while other crafts are things I just know how to do. I guess that defines the topic for me and it was a good thread topic to start, Karen!
M L
Others may ask, "What's in your wallet?" But I ask, "What's on your needles?" |
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KarenB
Seriously Hooked
750 Posts |
Posted - 08/31/2005 : 2:10:13 PM
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"Should I cook for the knitters?"
Amanda, is your DH available for cloning? Short-term leasing, perhaps? Training seminars? Wow!
Karen
My knitting photos: http://photobucket.com/albums/a100/karenknits/ |
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BessH
Permanent Resident
3095 Posts |
Posted - 08/31/2005 : 2:14:32 PM
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It happened for me the moment I watched the second Knitting Workshop video by Elizabeth Zimmermann. It was one of those C*L*I*C*K moments. I was freed forever more from someone else's idea of Small, Medium and Large.
It was a thrilling moment for me - I've never looked back.
Bess
http://likethequeen.blogspot.com |
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blueknitter999
Warming Up
USA
89 Posts |
Posted - 08/31/2005 : 2:56:37 PM
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I consider myself a knitter because, whenever I have a spare moment, that's what I do. I hope for a day when I can just knit without a pattern, or create my own patterns, but for now, I think it is my love of the process that makes me a knitter.
Check out my blog: http://berrieh.blogspot.com/ |
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fmarrs
Guardian angel
USA
9776 Posts |
Posted - 08/31/2005 : 4:37:16 PM
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I've considered myself a knitter since the day I overheard my mother talking to one of her friends. She told her that I didn't just knit. I picked up yarn and needles and then made something, no patterns necessary and that made me a knitter. Knitting has been a part of my life for so long that I can't imagine living without it. I feel like a knitter when I look at a photo and then sit down and knit an identical sweater. I guess what I am saying is when I no longer needed a pattern that spelled out every stitch.
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Marg in Mirror
Permanent Resident
Canada
3204 Posts |
Posted - 08/31/2005 : 5:22:48 PM
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I think I must've been about 12 or 13...I finally struck out on my own (less tutoring required) and made a pair of cabled over-the-knee sox that were the envy of all my friends!
Since then, I've knit almost constantly.
-- Marg (A Knitter) in Calgary
TLWKOTB
http://knitsonthebus.blogspot.com |
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samsgrams
Chatty Knitter
USA
184 Posts |
Posted - 08/31/2005 : 5:38:15 PM
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I became a "knitter" when I realized that I could make it up as I knit and didn't always need to rely on a pattern for directions - and when I also wake up in the middle of the night with an idea that I just have to write down.
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dmp29@adelphia.net
New Pal
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Posted - 08/31/2005 : 5:47:56 PM
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| i began knitting at a very early age. i used to knit clothes for my barbie dolls!!!! through the years i would knit occasionally. I was diagnosed with stage 4 ovarian cancer 2 years ago. during my long recovery, i started knitting again to occupy the time and now knit constantly!!!!! i donate knitted hats and shawls and throws to roswell park cancer institute (which is where i was treated). i need to be tested every three months for cancer and i take my knitting with me for the long waits at the hospital. i also have free time at my job as an aide at a high school, so i knit then. we have also started knitting during our lunch hour!!!!! i feel that i am now officially a "knitter". |
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Jane
SustaYning Member
USA
4292 Posts |
Posted - 08/31/2005 : 6:09:11 PM
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I'm a knitter to myself, and to all the people who know me and know how much it matters to me. It's so much a part of who I am that like Fran, I can't imagine living without it. I'm also a painter, and a spinner, and I'm a weaver, even though I haven't woven in a long time. I became a knitter the minute I said, "Oh, I get it, and I can make it up/change it!"
Jane
Blog-like thing: not plain jane
Photos:jane's pages
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Roxanne
Seriously Hooked
Canada
714 Posts |
Posted - 08/31/2005 : 6:14:45 PM
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I knew I was a knitter when it became a daily activity and when I couldn't knit one day, I would plan to knit the next or the first chance I got. Nothing much gets in the way of my knitting now if I can help it.
"Success is a Journey; not a Destination"
My Blog: http://knitnpurlzen.blogspot.com |
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Wovenflame
Seriously Hooked
Canada
812 Posts |
Posted - 08/31/2005 : 6:46:09 PM
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I think perhaps I was a knitter before I learned to knit. [:00] I know for certain I LOVED knitting before I was ever taught how to do it myself. I would sit close to grandma and mom while they were knitting and watch them endlessly.
I was taught how to spool knit when I was about four, but that, in my young mind, was not knitting [**] and I bored of it quickly. My first needles and ball of yarn were placed in my hands at about age 7. I've been knitting ever since.
-Marlene-
Come visit me at: http://wovenflame.blogspot.com/
"First is to shift the perception. If you learn to look at something differently, you will change it in an instant. The point of perception from which you view any situation determines your entire reality." - The Group |
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KellyPg
Chatty Knitter
Malaysia
167 Posts |
Posted - 08/31/2005 : 9:13:49 PM
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I realized it when I started feeling something's not right if I don't knit for more than 2 days. Before that, I also dream about knitting at night and think about knitting whenever I'm not occupied during the day but can't knit. :) These things started around 5mths after my first cast-on.
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highdesertrose
Gabber Extraordinaire
Malta
544 Posts |
Posted - 08/31/2005 : 9:45:52 PM
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Figgie
New Pal
8 Posts |
Posted - 08/31/2005 : 10:56:54 PM
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dmp29,
Blessings on you for giving back to the Roswell Park Cancer Institute by knitting items to comfort others. I pray that you will enjoy good health. |
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celia
Permanent Resident
Australia
2454 Posts |
Posted - 08/31/2005 : 11:16:08 PM
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I think I have known how to knit since I was a small child. However, I wasn't 'a knitter' till about 2 or 3 years ago when I found that not only was knitting 'something to do', but that I really enjoyed it, and that it was addictive.
celia
My blog is here:
http://celiaknits.blogspot.com
I am destashing here:
http://celias-basket.blogspot.com/ |
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emilyn
Chatty Knitter
Singapore
126 Posts |
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Pampered Punkin
New Pal
47 Posts |
Posted - 08/31/2005 : 11:38:21 PM
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I am a cancer survivor. When I was going through treatment I would spend 4-6 days in the hospital each month for chemotherapy. It was during one of these hospital stays that I realized that I was a true knitter. I kept getting into fights with the nurses. They wanted to put needles in my hands and I wouldn't let them because I wouldn't have been able to knit. The thought of sitting in the hospital for that length of time without being able to knit seemed almost unbearable.
One of my friends recently asked me how much time I spend knitting each week. I told her approx. twenty hours. My husband told me that I needed to pay more attention to the amount of time that I spend knitting because my estimate was way too low. |
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