[Nfb-krafters-korner] an interview with an unfinished project, so funny!

Tue Feb 20 16:42:55 UTC 2018

I agree with you Terry p, that sounds like what our UFO's would say to us, 
huh.

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so funny!

Thanks, Cathy!
Are any of his works on BAARD?

Terry P.

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funny!

See below and enjoy!

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Date: February 13, 2018 at 7:53:59 PM EST

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Lion Brand Notebook

________________________________________

Franklin Habit In Conversation With: This Unfinished Sweater

Posted: 13 Feb 2018 06:30 AM PST

Franklin: Welcome to "In Conversation With." I'm Franklin Habit, and today 
I'm joined in the studio by a sweater that I started knitting two years and 
two months ago; and which remains unfinished. Unfinished Sweater, thank you 
for being here today.

Sweater: Well, most of me is here. I'm not all here, since so much of me is 
still just balls of yarn.

Franklin: We usually save the deeper thoughts for near the end of the 
interview.

Sweater: I do beg your pardon. Terribly sorry.

Franklin: That's quite all right. Tell us a little bit about yourself, won't 
you please?

Sweater: Certainly. As I recall, you first commented on my colorway at a 
fiber festival about five years ago.

Franklin: Ah, yes.

Sweater: And you nearly left me in booth, but that friend of yours-what was 
her name?

Franklin: Dolores.

Sweater: Dolores, yes. Dolores wouldn't stop talking about how nice I would 
look on you, and how there was nothing quite like me in your stash, and that 
really for the yardage per dollar I was a remarkably good deal. Almost a 
bargain.

Franklin: She was right, of course. So I went back and bought you.

Sweater: You did, and you said the absolute minute you got home you were 
going to swatch and take measurements and cast on. Do you remember that?

Franklin: I do.

Sweater: Then I sat in the bag from the fiber festival inside a box under 
your bed for three years.

Franklin: Ahem.

Sweater: I don't hold it against you. I will say, coming out from under the 
bed was a shock. The world had changed so much. Everyone had smartphones.
The trees were taller. Yet you still had the same bath mat and shower 
curtain.

Franklin: Perhaps we could move along to what happened next?

Sweater. Oh, yes. The swatches. So many swatches!

Franklin: A month's worth, if I remember correctly?

Sweater: Easily a month of nothing but swatches. You simply could not make 
up your mind about me. Swatches for gauge, swatches for drape, swatches for 
texture and pattern. I know there were at least three cable swatches, and a 
very wide panel of traveling stitches.

Franklin: That traveling stitch pattern was especially lovely.

Sweater: They were, but then Dolores pointed out that from a moderate 
distance they appeared to be a linked chain of men's.well.of.well, it was 
very inappropriate for a mixed audience to say exactly what they appeared to 
be.

Franklin: Still, it took me a week to decide not to use that pattern.

Sweater: Did you save the swatch?

Franklin: Possibly.

Sweater: Then, after all that, you decided to do another perfectly plain 
Elizabeth Zimmermann saddle shoulder sweater.

Franklin: Yes.

Sweater: Not even a little textural detail on the shoulders.

Franklin: No.

Sweater: And then you did the math and cast on.

Franklin: Yes.

Sweater: And found out your math was wrong.

Franklin: Yes.

Sweater: After six inches of knitting.

Franklin: Yes.

Sweater: Then you started over with the correct number of stitches and knit 
four inches.

Franklin: Yes.

Sweater: And you found out you had twisted the stitches when joined to work 
in the round.

Franklin: Yes.

Sweater: So you ripped out again.

Franklin: Yep.

Sweater: And cast on again.

Franklin: Yep.

Sweater: With the incorrect number of stitches from the first attempt.

Franklin: As our time is limited, shall we move along to version six?

Sweater: Version six.was that the one where you got the rate of decreases 
wrong, and the shoulders would only have fit you as a toddler?

Franklin: That's the one.

Sweater: The look on your face when you realized what you had was the talk 
of the knitting bag the next day.

Franklin: I imagine so.

Sweater: Especially since you had already attached the sleeves, and thought 
you were almost finished.

Franklin: Yep.

Sweater: Then there was another extended stay under the bed.

Franklin: Yep.

Sweater: Which I suppose brings us to today. What version iPhone are we on 
at this point?

Franklin: I use an Android.

Sweater: Who won the election?

Franklin: Can we talk about what's next for you?

Sweater: That ball of wool, my dear, is in your court.

Franklin: I'd like to know how you felt.

Sweater: You mean how I feel?

Franklin: No. I mean I'd like to know.how you felt.

Sweater: Erm.

Franklin: Thank you for joining us today, ladies and gentlemen. Please tune 
in next time, when a panel of experts will weigh in on whether creating an 
elaborate amigurumi diorama of the restaurant from "Bob's Burgers" is a 
suitable occupation for a grown man.

________________________________________

Franklin Habit

Writer, illustrator, and photographer Franklin Habit is the author of I 
Dream of Yarn: A Knit and Crochet Coloring Book (Soho Publishing, 2016) and 
It Itches: A Stash of Knitting Cartoons (Interweave Press, 2008) and 
proprietor of The Panopticon, one of the most popular knitting blogs on 
Internet. His publishing experience in the fiber world includes 
contributions to Vogue Knitting, Yarn Market News, Interweave Knits, 
Interweave Crochet, PieceWork, Ply Magazine, Cast On: A Podcast for 
Knitters, Twist Collective, and Knitty.com.

He travels constantly to teach knitters at shops and guilds across the 
country and internationally; and has been a popular member of the faculties 
of such festivals as Vogue Knitting Live!, Stitches Events, Squam Arts 
Workshops, and the Madrona Fiber Arts Winter Retreat.

These days, Franklin knits and spins in Chicago, Illinois, sharing a small 
city apartment with a Schacht spinning wheel, two looms, and colony of sock 
yarn that multiplies alarmingly whenever his back is turned.

Visit him at www.franklinhabit.com.

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Have a great day!!

Cathy F

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