It all began when the Long Tall Barrister sitting on my left remarked that what the world really, really needed was a website full of extreme knitting: Extreme Knitting Dot Com. The Enthusiastic Rugby Player on my right promptly agreed, and followed up with a story about the knitted fishnet stockings he’d happened upon, quite by accident and he doesn’t know how, while he was surfing the net one day. Despite the fact that the suggested URL has already been taken (go look), the idea had been firmly planted, so here we are.
I guess, if you’re going to go knitting in the foyer of an International Law firm, this is what you can expect to happen. Barristers will insist on having ideas at you. Particularly when the receptionist informs said Long Tall Barrister that you are ‘waiting in reception (knitting).’
So. This is me. And you. And anyone else you can think of. It’s about Extreme Knitting, whether that’s the heel you turned on the bus with only eight inches of elbow room, or the hat you knitted on the top of a mountain: or maybe it was the tassled thong you created for a departing colleague and the lacey stockings that drive your man wild: perhaps it’s the knitting you did in the foyer of the law firm, or the Carlton Club, or at the Last Night of the Proms. I am guilt of most of these charges, plus a few more which I’m yet to admit to.
Once a week, I will post something: and, hopefully, by the time I get to next week, someone else will have a good tale, or a picture, to contribute. Email extremeknitting@googlemail.com to contribute. Rejoice in being an Extreme Knitter. Unlike ‘YouKnitWhat’, we’re celebrating here, not poking fun.
Jane
