I have doing the work + school thing for so long that I’ve developed the sad habit of calling the times when I’m only working full-time “vacation.” And after two weeks at feminist Mormon housewives, I felt a little blogged-out. Fortunately, none of you have missed me because of Miko’s l337 bl0gg1ng skilz.
For the past week I let myself follow my heart lazy butt’s fondest desires. On my downtime I:
- Read Steampunk novels and Bart Ehrman’s Misquoting Jesus. At night I dreamt of Jesus returning in glory, wearing a waistcoat, cravate and driver’s goggles and piloting an apocalyptic steam-chugging, fire breathing dirigible to fry all who dared to alter His words.
- Watched films like From Hell and City of the Lost Children while
- Knitting a bulky scarf.
I’m proud of my latest knitting accomplishment. I haven’t completed a project since my African pride iPod cozy a year or two ago. There are a couple of obstacles to knitting: the climate in Southern California (the cashmere boardshorts didn’t hold up well in the surf) and the relative dearth of men-friendly knitting projects (because I’m doing everyone a favor by not wearing this–or this, though intended for men).
My bulk-weight acrylic scarf, however, is manly. It ain’t pretty, but it is warm and rugged. In fact, if you were dropped into the pre-Al Gore Canadian Wilderness in the dead of winter naked save for this scarf, you could survive. It could serve as a thermal loincloth, a salmon net and Polar bear throttler. It’s long enough that that it can do all three at once. Given time, it will smell manly.
Before scarf:
After scarf:
For my next project, I will knit an entire ninja suit.
12 responses so far ↓
1 Elise // Jan 25, 2007 at 8:56 pm
LOL. Do NOT wear that in an airport. At least not like that!
I am envious that you know how to knit. Was it hard to learn?
2 Miko // Jan 25, 2007 at 9:36 pm
priceless, priceless words…that may appear on my iChat s/time soon…
And you as a ninja? I am no longer hogging all the awesome. altho, I am the Tekno8abe
thank you all for dealing with my recent addiction to blogging!
3 nee // Jan 26, 2007 at 6:31 am
I luuuuuv to knit! I’m currently working on a pair of socks to distract me from a sweater started 7 months ago.
Oh, I have a manly knit for you. mwahahaha I scanned it in from an old pattern book I have.
4 Diane // Jan 26, 2007 at 7:34 am
That scarf is HOT!
(and very manly - especially the color!)
5 nee // Jan 26, 2007 at 11:06 am
Also, check out .
6 nee // Jan 26, 2007 at 11:07 am
Let’s try that again.
Knitting with balls
7 John // Jan 26, 2007 at 1:30 pm
nee, you know that man is wearing the knitted thong underneath.
I think Jana and I spotted the cover of the ‘Balls’ book a while back and got a hearty chuckle out of it. Have you looked at the contents? Is it any good?
8 nee // Jan 26, 2007 at 9:58 pm
I don’t know that I could be a judge of if it’s good for the goose. Perhaps one of these men would know.
9 Miko // Feb 2, 2007 at 9:01 am
I’ve long been a fan of Subversive Cross Stitch, since I was once forced to cross stitch cute pink bunnies (I even sent a SCS to my sister-in-law), this example of subversive knitting caught my eye. Apparently, subversive lacing also exist, though not at that link. I’m still just a subversive gardener, though…
10 John Remy // Feb 2, 2007 at 9:33 am
Those links are inspiring. I’m a rebel knitter!
11 Miko // Mar 9, 2007 at 7:14 am
I just got spam with this title and it amused me:
12 nee // Mar 9, 2007 at 8:43 am
DOH! SLAM! I’ve recently taken up crocheting again and love it as much as knitting. Patterns have come a hella long way since back in the day, too.
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