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Someone posted about husbands and what they think about knitting. I can't find that post, but here is my opinion:
My husband encourages my knitting. He goes shopping with me (he sits in the truck and reads quite happily) until I have finished my expedition .
I met a woman who stopped knitting because he didn't like the clicking of the needles. Poor woman, I would have told him to get lost.
Some husband thought knitting was old women's work. Have you seen the new books in the stores and libraries lately. It's the in thing for the younger generation. They make funky things in bright colours. Books are made for little children to learn to knit.
By the way the first knitters were men. They were members of Guilds, and in medieval times to become a Master Knitter they had to make a certain number of things, including knitting a carpet. I wish I was as good as that. Women didn't start knitting til much later. It was a man who invented the knitting machine for socks. I have forgotten my history, but Wikepedia will have all the info.
A lot of men think they own women as chattel. Not any more. Since Emmeline Pankhurst went to prison and many of her friends too, and were force fed, for bringing about women's emancipation. These women were not poor, in money or spirit. Thank God for them. So women all, rise up and stand tall and remember you are a person with full rights. Do not knuckle under to any patronizing man. The Hopi and other aboriginals had Matriarchal leaders. Wow! are they wise? Everybody wins.
Go knit in public, in private, on the bus and train and in the car. I stop during Sermons in church. Knitting during the service is something I will not do. I knit before the Service. I consider knitting/fibre arts to be worship. You may have guessed I knit mostly Prayer Shawls.
Raise the flag of Freedom, maybe knit the flag of your country. I think I'll knit the Union flag for the UK and the Canadian flag, as I am a patriot too.
Ann
My husband encourages my knitting. He goes shopping with me (he sits in the truck and reads quite happily) until I have finished my expedition .
I met a woman who stopped knitting because he didn't like the clicking of the needles. Poor woman, I would have told him to get lost.
Some husband thought knitting was old women's work. Have you seen the new books in the stores and libraries lately. It's the in thing for the younger generation. They make funky things in bright colours. Books are made for little children to learn to knit.
By the way the first knitters were men. They were members of Guilds, and in medieval times to become a Master Knitter they had to make a certain number of things, including knitting a carpet. I wish I was as good as that. Women didn't start knitting til much later. It was a man who invented the knitting machine for socks. I have forgotten my history, but Wikepedia will have all the info.
A lot of men think they own women as chattel. Not any more. Since Emmeline Pankhurst went to prison and many of her friends too, and were force fed, for bringing about women's emancipation. These women were not poor, in money or spirit. Thank God for them. So women all, rise up and stand tall and remember you are a person with full rights. Do not knuckle under to any patronizing man. The Hopi and other aboriginals had Matriarchal leaders. Wow! are they wise? Everybody wins.
Go knit in public, in private, on the bus and train and in the car. I stop during Sermons in church. Knitting during the service is something I will not do. I knit before the Service. I consider knitting/fibre arts to be worship. You may have guessed I knit mostly Prayer Shawls.
Raise the flag of Freedom, maybe knit the flag of your country. I think I'll knit the Union flag for the UK and the Canadian flag, as I am a patriot too.
Ann
