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Knitting and body stuff
Feb. 11th, 2011 09:12 pmSo there's this new magazine out, your basic how to knit type, and, other than being badly organised, it has thrown up an interesting concept - the tension square. Now the magazine says that 'experienced knitters will knit a tension square to ensure that the way they are knitting the stitches will result in the same size of item as the pattern designer intends'.
I therefore asked the nearby experienced knitted (my Nan) who looked at me as thought I was a Martian. Of course, this could just be a culture thing, given my Nan started knitting at a time when you didn't waste material like that. As I know a couple of you knit, what's the verdict on tension squares - essential, a good thing but not vital or new fangled silliness?
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I'd love to say that during the winter months I don't shave for some good reason like 'have at that, obscure beauty double standard' but mostly it's because I don't see the point. I spend my entire time wearing a jumper at minimum so it's pointless, to say the least. My Mum, after a convoluted story, saw me without my t-shirt on and decides to tell me that I really ought to shave under my arms. I have tried to explain to her the pointlessness of self-same, given that my armpit gets the equivalent of a 5 o'clock shadow, so I only do it when and as necessary. She didn't take well to this. Somehow, I didn't expect to do the 'inaliable right to do with my body as I please' speech about my armpits. I was expecting that to be the tattoo conversation.
I therefore asked the nearby experienced knitted (my Nan) who looked at me as thought I was a Martian. Of course, this could just be a culture thing, given my Nan started knitting at a time when you didn't waste material like that. As I know a couple of you knit, what's the verdict on tension squares - essential, a good thing but not vital or new fangled silliness?
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I'd love to say that during the winter months I don't shave for some good reason like 'have at that, obscure beauty double standard' but mostly it's because I don't see the point. I spend my entire time wearing a jumper at minimum so it's pointless, to say the least. My Mum, after a convoluted story, saw me without my t-shirt on and decides to tell me that I really ought to shave under my arms. I have tried to explain to her the pointlessness of self-same, given that my armpit gets the equivalent of a 5 o'clock shadow, so I only do it when and as necessary. She didn't take well to this. Somehow, I didn't expect to do the 'inaliable right to do with my body as I please' speech about my armpits. I was expecting that to be the tattoo conversation.
