Misanthropic08 Oct 2002 09:41 am
More needles than a Heroin User’s Group (HUG)
In the US we truly have a competitive sport for everyone, and enough bored reporters that they all get covered. Appearing soon on ESPN2, right after the world’s strongest man competition… Competitive Knitting!
The winner Lily Chin (Congratulations Lily you should be very proud!) is trying to appeal to a “new generation of hip young knitters” and believes that her stupendous feat of knitting 92.5 double crochets in three minutes will land her in the Guinness Book of World Records
I just hope that she continues to use her super powers for good and not evil!
October 8th, 2002 at 10:48 am
You know the amazing thing, I have a shocking number of friends into knitting. Scary. We’re talking Gen X/Y people too.
October 8th, 2002 at 11:20 am
Knitting is actually pretty cool if you can knit blankets and such for presents. I fail to understand the point of competative knitting though….seems like practice for the sweatshops to me..
-baker
October 8th, 2002 at 11:26 am
Given her competition speed, how long do you think it took her to knit the sweater that she is wearing?
October 8th, 2002 at 4:22 pm
Oh great. Now they’re going to start replacing machines with humans. The robots’ union isn’t going to be happy.
October 9th, 2002 at 9:50 am
Wow it is like a knitters convention on here with all of these knitter-lovers!
October 9th, 2002 at 4:20 pm
i used to knit. then i found much more interesting uses for the needles.