Knitters of Many Colors
by Helene Rush
Knitting doesn’t discriminate. People of all sizes, ethnic backgrounds and walks of life can revel in it. It creates a mighty strong common bond.
However, to the uneducated eye (and I mean the non-knitters), we all look alike. To “them” a knitter is a knitter is a knitter. Ahhh, not so, grasshopper.
Which would you say comes first, the yarn or the pattern?
There are those who keep adding to their stash with no specific project in mind. You know the type who “just have to have this yarn NOW” (this last word spoken a bit like Arnold Schwarzenegger). A stash keeps growing in their house, like out-of-control fungus. “You don’t know,” they say, “I may never have an opportunity to purchase this type of yarn again, even if I live to be a hundred and fifty years old, plus I may run out after I knit the two thousand and sixty-seven pounds of yarn I already have. I am a fast knitter since I picked up my Addi Turbos, after all.” Hey, and who can predict the future, right?
And then there are knitters whose selection of pattern always comes first. This important piece of paper will determine what yarn will be selected. The yarn listed will be the yarn chosen, and the color shown will be it. And as a designer who designs patterns using specific yarns and colors to create specific results, I say, nothing wrong with that.
What about knitters with New Year’s resolutions promising to use up their stash before allowing themselves any more yarn indulgences?
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