Not using it

[susandennis]

With a lazy morning of forethought, today I will not use it.  I may lose it, but whatever.  I'm taking today off.  I have spent hours this morning, dozing and reading and breakfasting and reading and dozing and playing computer games and after I finish all this, I plan to watch TV and knit. So, if you lose it when you don't use it, I'm prepared for the loss.

And I am not going to knit sweaters for penguins.  I love to knit and I thing penguins are adorable but, even if this sweaters for penguins thing didn't surface about every three years and if it was not a hoax and I would not be interested.  When every child who wants one in Seattle, has a teddy bear hand knitted by me, I'll look at other ways I can contribute but knitting sweaters for birds a half a world away ain't going to be one of them.

I woke up this morning with my mouth aching. I'm ready to be done with that, thank you.  There is still one spot on the roof of my mouth that is really tender.  Ibuprofen has taken care of the ache.  I guess I'm stuck with time for healing the roof of my mouth.  I am having that freakin' pork chop for dinner tonight even if it hurts.

Comments

[yesthatjill.livejournal.com]

I really need people to not post things like 'knit xx for xx' on my Facebook. I'm not going to do it. I barely knit for my husband, and I love him.

[susandennis]

It is weird how people - particularly non-knitters - love to dictate what knitters should be knitting. I would never tell a woodworker 'hey, you should make tables!'. But, it happens so frequently, I feel like I'm missing some big clue or something.

[yesthatjill.livejournal.com]

My work actually does a 'spotlight on talent' in our monthly newsletter and they've been hounding me to let them feature my knitting. No, I tell them, repeatedly.

Last month was a guy who turns pens. Beautiful work, fantastic stuff. I go ask him: do people now expect you to make pens for them? No. No, they don't do that. But the second someone finds out I'm a knitter, they ask me to make them a pair of socks. A pen blank can be less than $5, turning the pen takes a couple of hours. Socks are $20 for the yarn and it takes me over a month to make them, but it's perfectly acceptable to ask me to spend that money and time, but not him?

And it's not just because I'm a woman (although I've thought that a few times); one of my male knitting friends had someone actually ask him to knit him a whole sweater shortly after meeting him.

Why do non-knitters not value the time of knitters?

[susandennis]

i got no clues on this one

[shutterbug.livejournal.com]

I hope you know I wasn't seriously suggesting it. I just thought it was cute :( I agree your bears are much better and also go to local kiddos.

[susandennis]

Oh, I did not. Besides, knitters get a bye on knitting suggestions - it's in the code :)