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Mackeila
Chatty Knitter
USA
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 Posted - 12/11/2006 : 6:07:31 PM
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I just found out tonite that there are a few superstitions/old wive's tales about knitting =) I guess I shoulda known, there are web pages with lists of different ones, about different things, places, etc. Here are some I found:
** It's bad luck to leave a project unfinished. The intended recepient will get bad luck from the unfinished item.
** Stabbing your needles though your yarn balls brings bad luck to anyone who wears something made from that yarn.
** Don't knit a pair of socks for your boyfriend or he'll walk away from you.
** If you knit one of your own hairs into a garment, it will bind the recipient to you.
** Knitting for children you may have in the future, but before you are pregnant, is bad luck (it may prevent one from getting pregnant, or bring ill health to the baby).
~ Lisa Harrison ~
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celia
Permanent Resident
Australia
2453 Posts |
Posted - 12/11/2006 : 7:31:37 PM
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I wonder what will happen if you combine tehse two:
** Don't knit a pair of socks for your boyfriend or he'll walk away from you.
** If you knit one of your own hairs into a garment, it will bind the recipient to you.
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chellethinques
Permanent Resident
USA
1431 Posts |
Posted - 12/11/2006 : 8:05:17 PM
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purlthis
Permanent Resident
USA
2553 Posts |
Posted - 12/11/2006 : 8:08:50 PM
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No, it turns into break up/get back together/break up/get back together...
Rachel
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As I get older, I prefer to knit. Tracey Ullman
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adalton124
Seriously Hooked
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Posted - 12/11/2006 : 8:11:07 PM
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Add to that the stabbing the ball of yarn with the needles..hehehe! sounds like knitting voodoo to me! 
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purlthis
Permanent Resident
USA
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Posted - 12/11/2006 : 8:24:07 PM
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Oh yeah, that ball of yarn is my point protector to keep my stuff from falling off! LOL
Rachel
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As I get older, I prefer to knit. Tracey Ullman
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KBerry
Gabber Extraordinaire
USA
486 Posts |
Posted - 12/11/2006 : 8:28:20 PM
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Originally posted by adalton124
Add to that the stabbing the ball of yarn with the needles..hehehe! sounds like knitting voodoo to me!
I wonder if I sent something to a certain ex-wife/husband that has been stabbed........?
Kristin
I'm only as strong as the coffee I drink, the hairspray that I use, and the friends that I have! |
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loral56
Chatty Knitter
USA
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Posted - 12/11/2006 : 8:31:16 PM
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knittingbuzz
Permanent Resident
USA
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Posted - 12/12/2006 : 05:38:26 AM
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| These are great.....BUT I'm a lil' concerned about the unfinished projects.... I better get busy... especially the cardigan I was making for myself.... |
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LizzieK8
Warming Up
USA
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Posted - 12/12/2006 : 05:50:59 AM
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Originally posted by Mackeila
** It's bad luck to leave a project unfinished. The intended recepient will get bad luck from the unfinished item.
Nice to know that UFO issues are timeless! 
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** Stabbing your needles though your yarn balls brings bad luck to anyone who wears something made from that yarn.
Yeah, it splits and weakens the yarn and the bad luck is the knitted item falls apart!
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** Don't knit a pair of socks for your boyfriend or he'll walk away from you.
Hmmmm a promise or a threat? 
This was great fun...thanks for sharing![:00]
Lizzie
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/chain3turn/my_photos
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lucienh
Honorary Angel
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Posted - 12/12/2006 : 05:56:35 AM
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| Hmmm. Maybe this belongs in the off-topic area, but I have a long list of politicians that I'm now planning to knit for.... leaving my needles stuck through the ball of yarn. As for the contradictory superstitions, the politicians are already walking around in circles. |
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knittingbuzz
Permanent Resident
USA
1116 Posts |
Posted - 12/12/2006 : 06:45:14 AM
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Tangled Jane
Seriously Hooked
Canada
750 Posts |
Posted - 12/13/2006 : 04:03:04 AM
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I never leave a project, even for a moment, on the reverse side but have no reasonable explaination, no Irish wive's tale, to haunt me. Maybe I'm thinking, in some deep part of my brain that rarely sees the light of reason, that leaving a project anywhere but at the start of a new, right-side, row may damn the knitting to wrongness?
Or, maybe I'm just nuts.
Jane http://janethornley.com/journal_knitters.php |
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hillstreetmama
Permanent Resident
USA
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Posted - 12/13/2006 : 04:18:45 AM
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I usually start a project (not clothing) without a recipient in mind. For instance, one shawl that I was finishing caught the eye of my middle daughter. She asked who it was for and I said I didn't know yet. She thought for a minute and said, "It would look really nice with my grey shirt to wear to church." It's hers, now. But if I hadn't finished it, who would get the bad luck?
Jan
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booglass
Permanent Resident
Costa Rica
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Posted - 12/13/2006 : 08:53:25 AM
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I don't believe in superstions mainly b/c I am having my house painted and I have no choice but to walk under ladders. So unless I am bucking to give myself 300 years of bad luck I have to be a non-believer.
Besides I have thick curly hair and that isn't blending into any knitting project. In fact, given the look of my hair it may produce the bad luck of public embarassment if you catch my drift. ;-)
bonnie
Check out my blog:
Tropical Knits
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Ruby Plaid
Seriously Hooked
USA
645 Posts |
Posted - 12/13/2006 : 09:26:02 AM
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I wonder what will happen if you combine tehse two:
** Don't knit a pair of socks for your boyfriend or he'll walk away from you.
** If you knit one of your own hairs into a garment, it will bind the recipient to you.
I'm assuming the second one would cancel out the first one in that case!
My sassy knitting blog is here: http://www.rubyplaid.com
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probablyjane
Permanent Resident
United Kingdom
1226 Posts |
Posted - 12/13/2006 : 4:28:32 PM
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These made me smile - especially number 3
Interesting Latvian beliefs about mittens
1. Mittens and socks should be knitted in summer, then they will be warm, soft and strong.
2. One should not wash new mittens when there is an old moon,
they will lose their color and let through the wind.
3. One should not wipe their nose in a mitten. Whoever does that never gets rich.
4. One should not give their hand to another with a mitten on, otherwise they will give away their luck.
'I am the milkman of human kindness - I will leave an extra pint' Billy Bragg
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lucylocket
Permanent Resident
Australia
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Posted - 12/13/2006 : 8:53:02 PM
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This thread is a great read ! I never like to put my knitting aside after a knit row - have to do the purl as well!I don't do a lot of ribbing obviously!!I also don't like taking green wool out with me to knit with on trains,buses etc.I must have inherited the latter fom my Great-aunt Priscilla who would never have ANYTHING green in the house - not even holly at Christmas - Thankfully I'm not that eccentric!!(maybe just a little!)Happy Knitting - Lucylocket[meow]
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kadiddly
Permanent Resident
USA
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Posted - 12/13/2006 : 10:31:49 PM
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I don't weave in the tail from the cast on until the project is complete. It's the last thing I always do. No idea why, I just do.
Why not knit with green when traveling, Lucy?
"Alright everyone, back to your knitting..."
- Fred or George Weasley, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (movie)
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KL
Permanent Resident
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Posted - 12/13/2006 : 10:49:44 PM
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Why do I completely defy superstitions??
I walk under ladders, I touch the paint, if it says DON'T, I do.
Why, Why, Why??? I am so compelled. In my own mind, I think I know why.KL[:00] |
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lucylocket
Permanent Resident
Australia
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Posted - 12/14/2006 : 12:56:08 AM
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I was wearing a green t-shirt and a black sloppy-joe top decorated with green motifs the day I had a serious accident which put me in hospital for several months and on crutches for 2 years - I feel that probably is the reason - I do use green in my knitting but I guess it has unpleasant associations with travelling.(I was hit by a car on a pedestrian crossing).I'm fine now and at least I can knit!!!!Happy Knitting - Lucylocket[meow]
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