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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:24am on 2022-08-14

"It is a peculiarity of knitters that they chronically underestimate the amount of time it takes to knit something. Birthday on Saturday? No problem. Socks are small. Never mind that the average sock knit out of sock-weight yarn contains about 17,000 stitches. Never mind that you need two of them. (That's 34,000 stitches, for anybody keeping track.)

"Socks are only physically small. By stitch count, they are immense."

-- Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much

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minoanmiss: A spiral detail from a Minoan fresco (Minoan Spiral)

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posted by [personal profile] minoanmiss at 04:48pm on 2022-08-14
This reminds me of the WTNV quote about different sizes of infinity.
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posted by [personal profile] totient at 03:32am on 2022-08-15
At first I read "a peculiarity of knitters" as the collective noun for them.
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