knitted doughnut
From the department of “it’s just not the same!!”, we have:
I have to admit, the whole “knitted food” phenomenon is something I just can’t wrap my head around. All that preciousness at the expense of fuction. I say this without a hint of irony, mind you (who, me? I never engage in the creation of something for the sheer joy of it).
Anyway, doughnuts are one of my weaknesses. A doughnut made of yarn will never do, I tell you.
In other craft news, it’s official: sewing has become the new knitting. I know I mentioned this around here earlier, but it’s getting truer every minute. Indeed, apparently knitting book sequels are shamelessly slipping way to the new medium. Behold, LAST MINUTE FABRIC GIFTS (undoubtedly a companion to last year’s excellent-but-for-the-first-edition’s-countless-typos LAST MINUTE KNITTED GIFTS). What the ‘ell? No, we’re none too subtle, are we, publishers? I didn’t get the message with the squillion (okay, maybe seven) books on altered t-shirts that hit the market this fall (saw a new one one of those on the shelf today, too — in shrink wrap, no less).
Yes, of course I bought the FABRIC GIFTS book. It looks excellent, has cute projects, and I love to sew. But I can’t be bothered to alter t-shirts.
Publisher’s Weekly has even picked up on the shift in the winds. Their August 28 cover story is “A Knitter’s Tale: From Trendy to Hip. Now what?”.
Alas I’m not ready to give up my needles, be them for the yarn or for my sewing machine, just yet. This weekend’s craft project is my first knit hat in a while, which isn’t quite done thanks to having to rip it out a few rows — I did NOT put in all that work only to look like a pink and blue Abraham Lincoln (think stovepipe). It won’t be the last. It’s really seldom that I get my knitting in line before the temperature drops, so I’m going to strike while the iron is hot, so to speak.
“This fall I’m going to be all about… the knitted hat!” I proclaimed, on our way home from Barnes and Noble.
“Waaaait a minute,” said Leland, “I thought you were all about the writing!”
Yeah, yeah.
