OK so I'm not a parent and never will be ...by choice....

And yet...this is what I have to say:

Creativity is a Force not to be ignored. Ever!

Delve, Dive, Explore.......and Express your creativity!...Always...until the day you ..ahem... Otherwise, ...you might not be alive anymore!

Never ever ...let gender/other/outside influences....negate what's creatively in/on your mind..EVER. 'They" might not....."get it" Positively.....Nonetheless, LISTEN!....to feedback then move on!

Take What You Need...Leave the Rest....

For whatever that's worth...it's what I've learned from my "view from here." Keep on Planting the Seed!

The older I get the more my Wacky Creative Dad dad (aka parent) was right!

Give yer kids an original/creative well-formed .....erm, Well...From which to drink....deeply~! Eventually they'll "get it" It might take 20 years +/- (trust me on this one) but they just might.......thank you!

Plant the seeds of creativity and NEVER GIVE UP... do so..daily! Meld a mind to think/create for her/his self!

Please?!

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Knitting really is too much fun to be hogged up by girlies, only

My Mom taught me how to crochet when I was a youngster. It was kinda fun but I never kept up with it.

I'm facinated by the whole process from shearing the sheep to the final knitted sock.

Shiloh

You might like this, then, Shiloh:
http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1259403

I'll bet that you and I could have a great time wandering around at Living History museums.

Lisascenic

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http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1259403

That does sound like fun.

We have a group here in Arkansas called the Early Arkansas Re-enactors. They go to a lot of the parks and schools to demonstrate the *crafts* of the 1800's and earlier. I went to the big rendezvous they have every year at Pinnacle Mountain and watched a lady spin.

BTW this group built a keel boat to commerate the Hunter-Dunbar expediton. I helped work on it.

http://www.arkie.net/%7Eeara/

click on keelboat and you can see the boat being built. I'm in some of the pics

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I'm facinated by the whole process from shearing the sheep to the final knitted sock.

Ditto!

But, erm, I think I'd do better on the knitting front if I only had one mis-shapen left foot.....

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Once you start and get hooked, there's no stopping.

'hooked' ? Isn't that for the crocheters? Maybe for the knitters: Once you get 'needled'?

Amy
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I'm busted...

I didn't intentional use the word "hooked" as a pun but then I thought,
I wonder if someone will think I did. They did!

Casting off, Orion

My 20 year old daughter (she just learned to knit) thinks that a guy
who knits would be a cool boyfriend!
I tend to agree, as my husband taught himself to knit awhile back.

Take care, Orion

Yea! Glad you completed the project. It really is a fun hobby. I always have something in the works, for when the boys are watching something on TV or for riding in the car.

CONGRATULATIONS...and welcome to the second addiction...lol

JPMcD

My son wanted to learn, and he was all set to make a square to go to an afghan for a service member overseas, but when I started to teach him, and he discovered it was a little bit tricky to pull the yarn through without losing it off the tip of the needle, he gave up.

I was bummed, but at least he learned to cast on. >:-/

DebBee

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http://brooklyntweed.blogspot.com/

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Funny you should mention this one. A friend from my knitting group just sent me a link to a cool fair isle hat on this blog that I really like.

DebBee

My 11yo son knits, off and on. A boy knitter has designed a great t-shirt that says "boys knit too" (or something along those lines) with a skull and crossed knitting needles. Darned if I can find it with a google search now that I am looking for it...

A fellow knitter, who teaches in an urban middle school, has a lunchtime group of knitters. (They are working on the red scarf project right now.) Boys and girls are equally represented. She has been shocked by the number of boys who join who already know how to knit (and can teach her a thing or two) -- taught by their grandmothers.

-- Queen B

I've been toying with the idea of volunteering to start a knitting club at my son's new high school. I was thinking if they worked on charity projects, they could maybe get community service credit for it. I'm still deciding whether I've got what it take to pull it off, though.

DebBee