All about the Knit Sisters
I’m Ellen.
And I’m Sarah.
And we’re the Knit Sisters! Welcome to our blog. For several months now, we have been concerned about apparent dearth of knitting blogs written by sisters, or what we call “The Sister Gap.” So we’ve taken it upon ourselves to fill this obvious need. What, you may ask, qualifies us to render this service?
Oh, let us count the ways…
1. We are actual, biological sisters. Although we hasten to add that we consider all knitters our metaphysical and spiritual sisters and brothers!
2. Those of you with children may feel heartened to know that now that we are 35 and 38 years old (respectively), we’ve finally stopped quarrelling and are ready to launch a joint project.
3. We knit. We’ve pretty much always knit, having been born, remarkably, with stitch markers and tiny balls of superwash wool in our little fists. This was all the more astonishing given the fact that our mother DOES NOT KNIT. She claims that she is unable to knit. But more on this highly suspicious claim elsewhere…
4. Sarah spins. Ellen does not. Yet Ellen beholds Sarah’s spinning with appropriate awe and wonder. Ellen also frequently scores major, major stash-enhancing handspun from her sister. She is exceptionally grateful and wonders what she did so right in a previous life to get this lucky.
5. Location. Location. Location. Sarah lives in Missouri and Ellen lives in Massachusetts, so we’re kind of like regional correspondents on knitting and spinning. Or something like that.
6. In spite of the fact that cats are the accepted mainstay domestic animal of knitters, we are dog people. We live in households with cats, so occasionally one will whizz by, entangling itself in our yarn, but we do not as a rule have truck with cats.
No, we feel that dogs are infinitely better knitting companions. You may have heard of “emotional support dogs”? These are highly trained “knitting support dogs”:
Hugo:
and Shelley:
7. We like to write and talk about knitting.
8. We like to write and talk to each other about knitting.
9. We feel it’s time that others got in on this conversation.
10. And as they used to say at the beginning of every episode of The Six Million Dollar Man (we know y’all remember this, too), “We have the technology!” We’ve got computers, we’ve got digital cameras, and we’ve got Alex, Ellen’s fiancé, who generously designed this site and is standing by to bail us out whenever we get in over our heads. Technologically speaking. Thank you, Alex!
June 17th, 2006 at 7:15 am
i am concerned about the implication that i could knit if i only applied myself. my contention is that if two could have been born with knitting apparatus clutched in tiny fists (ouch!), one could have also been born with a tiny copy of the canterbury tales clutched in an equally tiny fist as well as a total lack of interest in creating things from a sheep’s cast-offs!
i am very proud of their lovely creations and the proud possessor of several beautiful hand knit garments.
a broken arm explains the lack of caps. one can read one-handed. is the same true of knitting?
June 19th, 2006 at 8:53 am
Ah, touché! Knitting does indeed take two hands–I can’t see any way around that one.
But I think we’ve uncovered a truth here…and that is this: our mother, despite protestations to the contrary, is not actually unable to knit. She just doesn’t want to knit.
Very strange. But fair enough.
June 23rd, 2006 at 4:51 pm
I want a sister who spins and gives me cool yarn! Wanna trade sisters? My sister bakes a mean apple pie.
June 23rd, 2006 at 5:07 pm
p.s. You are both gorgeous! And so are your doggies. My Yorkie sends yaps your way.