Surrounded By Muggles In The Wizarding World Of Fiber

This evening was the live broadcast of Stephen & Steven Mixed Tape Tour...loved it!  They are the professors in the wizarding world of fiber arts.  The textures and color matching that they come up with is nothing short of splendifferous!  Magical!  Delectably scrumptious!  It is a good thing that fiber is not ice cream; you would have to roll me out the door like Violet everyday.  But in listening to them both, it did remind me of how small the fiber community really is.  Not just knit and crochet junkies, but spinners and weavers and dyers.

I was at the doctor's office earlier today and brought my knitting.  I check-in, sit down, and start knitting.  Every time I do that you'd think I had four heads and tentacles coming out of my ass.  Is it really necessary for, "Look at that woman over there.  What is she doing?  Should we be worried?" while you are elbowing someone in their ribs and pointing with your muggle finger?  I've actually had someone ask me to stop knitting because they found it offensive.  Seriously?  I find it highly offensive that you actually leave the house and punish society with your presence but I at least have the decency to let you be as some things just can't be fixed.  So I just warmly smiled, plainly and calmly said "Bite me" and proceeded with my knitting.

But then you do have people who are just curious and ask questions.  I love it when a kid comes up and is all starry eyed with wonder.  That is awesome.  That gives me hope that not all muggles are ignorant knuckle dragging primates, just the direct descendants of the Dursleys.

Rather than learning Klingon, I think my next response to a feces flinging howler monkey will be to recite a pattern.

  

But again, I do have hope.  Knit and crochet fashion is coming back.  I recently received my copy of Harper's Bazaar and saw knit items.  I cringed while turning pages at times seeing that God awful 70's pants suit is making a comeback.  With the pukey colors in grotesque patterns too.  I've survived that already, I'm not sure I can do it again.  But there was a lot of inspiration in those pages too. Wonderful texture and vibrant colors paired with subtle earth tones.

Big Thank You to West & Be for their time today!  As well as Yarn Mountain and Patrick Lyddy! (And I love the name of their tour.  I remember my aluminum foil antenna on our little radio that when you heard your fave song on the station, you had to hurry up and press record/play at the same time, remain absolutely quiet and hope that damn dj wouldn't screw up the song by talking at the beginning or end)

And to all my fellow wizard folk who perform magic with sticks and string... 

I sooo need to find me one of these!