Grumperina's Meme

I was just catching up on my blogging from yesterday, and I thought Grumperina posed an excellent question that deserved a post here (in addition to my other post from today - below).

Most of my friends don't knit, although obviously, J does, seeing as we have a blog together! I taught my friend Holly to knit, and although she does it occasionally, it certainly hasn't become an addiction for her like it has for me. She doesn't know about my blog, although she might occasionally check it out if she did.

My sister-in-law doesn't knit and I think she thinks it's silly. She does know about the blog, but to my knowledge, has never looked at it. The vast majority of family doesn't care about it either and they think knitting is silly and antiquated. Case in point - my dad brought my felted cat bed to me at our company Christmas party and I asked him to bring it inside. He asked, "You're not embarrassed?" I don't know, maybe I should have been. I work at an engineering firm, a highly male-dominated office, but because I'm surrounded by men constantly, I feel that preserving my femininity is crucial. I don't want to basically be a man with boobs just by virtue of my choice of profession. With the exception of my job, I'm all girl.

My mom hasn't taken any interest in my knitting, although I think she's starting to more and more as she finds out about all of the people she knows who knit (she didn't know before). Also, I've impressed her friends with knitted gifts at baby showers, and her sister and two sisters-in-law also knit, so she's surrounded. Although I wouldn't call her a "modern woman" (she was a stay-at-home mom), many things about her are distinctly modern and she eschews most things domestic, i.e. sewing, knitting, cleaning, etc. She is, however, an EXCELLENT cook, and she takes good care of my father, who needs it.

My husband obviously knows I knit, as he is forced to live with hundreds of skeins of yarn and dozens of finished and unfinished projects in our 800 sq. ft. condo. He is somewhat impressed, but doesn't take much interest in it.

My friend Kelly has no interest either, although she has a close friend up by her in San Francisco who is a knitter. In her defense, Kelly has tried it and said she was "no good" at it. She always asks, "Are you still into knitting?" as if it's a phase and something that will wane one day. She doesn't know about the blog and I doubt she'd take an interest in it.

Amber, my friend in Scotland, saw me knitting a pair of socks on her last US trip, and she herself has, in the past, taken an interest in crochet, but has displayed no interest in knitting. Oh well. That's why I have you guys! And my friends at the Grove!