Comments on: A Knitting Heretic Part 1: In a subculture that has spats over the one true way to knit socks is it even possible for there to be knitting heresy?

By: Wendy

Wendy — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 21:41:54 +0000

Ha, a very fun post to read. I love knitting and the online knitting world and all the weird little swirls and whirls of backlash and lash, ebb and flow. I think most people do it how they do it, learn new techniques and just get on with it without much fuss (‘cuz, really, it’s just knitting, people) but the vocal minority can be very fun to watch/read.

I have Game of Thrones on audio, and the next one (although I haven’t got too far in that one. I stopped listening for a while and forgot who a lot of people were. ;-O). Entertaining, and a good twist on the genre (killing ‘heroes’).

By: Tekopp

Tekopp — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 02:07:58 +0000

You forgot the overly loyal people “Only bamboo/addi turbos/dpn’s/merino (or something similar) is correct, cause that’s the best”
and “If thou followst a pattern thou art unworthy” type.

By: Kristen

Kristen — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 15:37:54 +0000

I forgot that knitting Continental is highly superior to knitting English.

This is a good post. When I started knitting (and, well, ever since then) I’ve been mainly without knitters with which to hang.The singular exception is my friend Lisa, who is probably still afraid of cables and who just had a baby so is rather distracted at the moment. She only began knitting because I taught her. So it would seem that aside from Lisa, all my knittahs are virtual, and I never had to deal with someone telling me to my face that I’m doing something wrong. Reading a general post in a Knitlist email about why someone thinks English is better or Continental is better just serves as entertainment rather than a personal attack.

This argument (like so many of them) comes in two forms, though. The first is “my way is better”, but the second is the preachy and elitist snob version: “I’m such a hardcore knitter that I’ve taught myself how to knit Continental AND English, and my extensive research has led me to believe that you are poop on my shoe when it comes to knitting knowledge.”