I’m thinking about taking up knitting. It’s become all trendy, which has several advantages; the main one (possibly) being that I can meet new people.

I don’t know anyone in this town anymore—especially girls. In fact, I generally don’t gravitate toward females, but I feel like the only girl who doesn’t have any girl friends to hang with.

Because this knitting thing is so popular, many cities have their own knitting groups where people meet on a regular basis to knit and talk and do whatever else it is that women do when they gather together. I’ve found the blogs of a couple SB knitters and they look like pretty normal girls—and they are both in their 20s, which is a plus. So anyway, I was thinking that maybe I could learn this new craft as an excuse to join a group.

Is it lame that I want to start a hobby to make friends? I mean, it’s one thing to have a passion and then join a group of other like-minded individuals, but it’s another to take up a passion just to fit the niche of the group. Because, I don’t even know if I’ll like knitting or if I will be good enough to make anything useful. For all I know, I’ll give up in frustration.

Anyway, if I actually decide to go through with this, some of you can probably expect lots of hats and scarves and socks in your future.

Posted at 12:14 PM |

LOL cuz you’re the ONLY person to offer that idea as a way to meet people! ;) I’d much rather make a sweater than do your activism idea. Although, I’m afraid I’m going to walk into the local knitting store, display my ignorance, and thus walk out of there with a TON of stuff that the sales people tell me I “need”.

2 | Posted by: Jennifer on April 29, 2005 @ 2:09 PM