Dreamy Collection of Tips and Inspiration for Knitters
Attention knitters! Haven’t you ever been confronted with crazy questions, taken aback looks or strange remarks from those around you when you line up the stitches with big straight or circular needle strokes?
Do you sometimes feel alone, when you have to answer a few curious people, and your vocabulary suddenly seems worthy of a dialect spoken by the last 10 inhabitants of a remote Pacific island?
Do you know that exhilarating feeling of belonging to a big family when finally, at the bend of a wagon, in a creative leisure fair or during a meeting between knitters, you meet other illuminated knits and other throws, who speak your language and share your little quirks?
Here are 10 winks that will no doubt speak to all knitters. Do not hesitate to complete this list or to share your anecdotes related to your knitting-wool passion in the comments of this article, to smile together!
-> You know what a stitch holder, a marker ring and a sample are used for (yes! we know exactly what it is for, but that doesn’t mean we do it…).
No, this is not a giant safety pin 😉
-> You know that these tools are not for drawing mountains and suns of various sizes, nor for covering your ears.
-> You know who this pretty little face belongs to:
-> You know this extreme tension that paralyzes your body when you have 3 rows left to do with just a few meters of yarn…
-> You’ve already blocked a liberating cry just in time by casting off your last stitch, with 3 cm of thread, because no one around you could have understood your relief or your nervous laughter…
-> You have (re)taken to English just for this boss who makes you dream… Fortunately, at Saxe, we think of those who prefer Molière to Shakespeare, and regularly translate beautiful works into French.
-> When you started knitting, your colleagues or friends asked you every day for weeks if your pretty sweater was handmade (uh, no, I don’t knit in 0.05 mm)… But the day when, finally, you wear proudly your first achievement, no one asks you THE question… And you have a hard time not shouting from the rooftops, that yes, this one is you who made it!
-> You don’t understand, but then you don’t understand at all, how you can confuse knitting and crocheting…! (While, honestly, before starting, you sometimes had doubts, you too, admit…)
-> You know that your balls each have a bath number, and besides, you would take a bath in the middle of your balls!