Jealousy
You know… Sometimes I get very jealous of the women of the world.
I love knitting. I love knitting lace. I’m in the process of knitting a Lace Mobius (Moebius — I can never figure out the correct spelling) with a very beautiful and luxurious skein of Qiviut.
It’s never going to look good on me. Gay or straight, the stuff I *love* to knit is never going to look as nice on a man as it will on a women.
I do have a lace seaman’s scarf in a black shetland. Very conservative. But the truly beautiful stuff is destined for the ladies in my life. Lucky ladies….
Doesn’t mean I’ll stop knitting lace or giving it away. Still it would be nice if I could knit and wear a nice lace shawl in public without folks thinking I’m *really* strange. Most think I’m strange enough just because I knit in public. Ah well….
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Annmarie wrote:
Jerry, this is why you are so valuable! A man who can appreciate beautiful knitting but also understands what another man is likely to wear. We all have men in our lives we would like to knit for- you are in a unique position to design patterns that are appropriate, beautiful, and fun to knit. Please help those of us who are tired of the same old basketweave that you see everywhere!
Here is a page about Mobius, what it is, and why it’s called that. http://scidiv.bcc.ctc.edu/Math/Mobius.html
Thanks for a great blog!
Posted on 29-Jan-03 at 8:47 am | Permalink