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Posted by Padishar Creel on July 31, 2007, 5:48 pm
I have always wondered why the knitting community slows down during
summer. Most of us can knit in air conditioned comfort of our homes,
local yarn shops, work or car. I suppose t here are more distractions
during summer with vacations etc. but I find that I have a bit more
time to knit than some other times of the year.
Your thoughts on this?
Padishar Creel
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Posted by Mary Fisher on July 31, 2007, 5:57 pm
>I have always wondered why the knitting community slows down during
> summer. Most of us can knit in air conditioned comfort of our homes,
> local yarn shops, work or car. I suppose t here are more distractions
> during summer with vacations etc. but I find that I have a bit more
> time to knit than some other times of the year.
>
> Your thoughts on this?
>
> Padishar Creel
My output stays more or less the same, I knit while listening to the plays
on radio which are pretty constant throughout the year. But I also knit in
the garden when the weather's good enough, with my hens for company.
We don't have air conditioning in our house, it's not necessary (English
temperature can be controlled with curtains, doors and windows), I don't
like to shop, I don't have a job and never knit in the car - it's a bit
dangerous :-). Nor do we have holidays.
But we're not Mr and Mrs Average and you have a good point.
Mary
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Posted by Shillelagh on July 31, 2007, 6:09 pm
> I have always wondered why the knitting community slows down during
> summer. Most of us can knit in air conditioned comfort of our homes,
> local yarn shops, work or car. I suppose t here are more distractions
> during summer with vacations etc. but I find that I have a bit more
> time to knit than some other times of the year.
>
> Your thoughts on this?
>
> Padishar Creel
I think you hit the nail on the head.... more "distractions". I'm an avid
gardner, so spend what could be knitting time out weeding, watering
etc. We visit people more often too, and then there's vacation time.
However, my knitting group meets weekly right through summer, and
I always look forward to it.
Shelagh
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Posted by Mirjam Bruck-Cohen on August 1, 2007, 11:49 pm
Shelagh
I feel like you , summer has so many Outside distractions ,,,, of
course summer here is hot , but i knit cottons , In former times
before the slow down in knitting that happened 15 [ minus plus] years
ago , Woman all knitted in winter and embroidered in summer ,,,, i
never stopped knitting and indeed with A/C [ esp in FREEZING BUSSES ]
i went on knitting ,,,,Now with the Renaissnace of knitting , many
people knit all year round , and others are back to knitting in winter
only , embroidering in summer ....
mirjam
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>I think you hit the nail on the head.... more "distractions". I'm an avid
>gardner, so spend what could be knitting time out weeding, watering
>etc. We visit people more often too, and then there's vacation time.
>
>However, my knitting group meets weekly right through summer, and
>I always look forward to it.
>
>Shelagh
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Posted by BB on August 1, 2007, 2:04 pm
> I have always wondered why the knitting community slows down during
> summer. Most of us can knit in air conditioned comfort of our homes,
> local yarn shops, work or car. I suppose t here are more distractions
> during summer with vacations etc. but I find that I have a bit more
> time to knit than some other times of the year.
>
> Your thoughts on this?
>
> Padishar Creel
With the longer daylight hours of summer, I have more energy, so I tend
to spend my time doing other things. Currently, I'm working on getting
parts of the house organized and fixing up a few rooms - things I tend
to avoid during the dreary Ohio winters.
BB
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