Inspired by a recent burst of creativity, I have decided to take up the age old skill of knitting. Of course, this immediately spawned comments from friends such as;
‘Your transformation into your Grandmother is nearly complete!’
Becoming more like my Grandmother wouldn’t be such a bad thing, but that’s beside the point. The history of knitting goes much further back than Grandma dearest, and in fact was historically a man’s job. The skill grew up around fishing nets, early rudimentary garments and tasks that traditionally fell to the boys about the place.
So, how on earth do you go about learning to knit in 2013? Surely it’s a lost talent within the younger generations; a talent we all have recollections of from childhood when we would be presented with the occasional and often unfashionable chunky garment by a well meaning elderly and often female relative (those jumpers and…
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