If you get the newsletter, you will know we’re going to be moving at the end of the month. Yay! This is very exciting, because it’s not just a new home for Purlescence, it’s a new home for me too. And I think it’ll be rather a lovely one. Also, I have moved home A Lot in my life, and have developed a certain tendency to restlessness after the first year in any one place. We’ve spent close to three years in this flat, which is the longest I have ever gone between moves. Don’t get me wrong, I am increasingly intrigued by the exotic notion of “settling down”, but it doesn’t come naturally. I like moving.
But of course moving is also, well, rather a lot of work. And this will be the first time I have to move a business as well as my home. It’s all rather intimidating. So, as much as I hate to neglect you so badly, I’m afraid the blog will continue to be pretty quiet over the next few weeks. I promise it’ll be worth it in the end. (More yarn! Really, what could be wrong with that?) I’m just going to be a little bit frazzled until then.
I leave you with a question. Recently, people keep asking to see my knitting (a lace scarf), and when I spread it out for them, they say in tones of great surprise: “Oh! It’s pretty!” Or, “That’s actually quite nice!” Now:
(a) Do you also get this reaction from muggles?
(b) How do you feel about it?
On the face of it, it’s a little bit insulting, and I’m always taken aback at how they don’t realise that. (What, you thought I’d be making something ugly?) But actually I quite like it. It’s so brilliantly honest and unfiltered: they apparently have a prejudice against knitting, yet they discover that it’s not what they think. Still, though… is odd.
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Definitely odd. Yes, I do get that reaction often.
Glad you and Armin found somewhere worth moving to – lots of exciting change this year for you, n’est-ce pas?
I just try to remember my first reaction to unblocked lace and be gentle with the muggles. They know not of the magic of unblocked lace.
Also – congrats on the moving – and good luck!
Hmm, I get the opposite reaction. Non-knitters go “oh, that’s nice” in a very non-interested way. Knitters go “oh, wow, look at the cabling” or “nice tension” or something. It’s such a different culture here, where obviously only old grannies knit. A person under 50 knitting is a novelty and they politely ask what I’m knitting, who it’s for, but aren’t really interested beyond politeness. Sigh.
Jo, I think that’s why I find this reaction quite flattering – they’re not expecting to be interested, they think it’s very weird that I’m knitting at all, but then they find they actually do like it. Quelle surprise! It’s not a different culture – we have just the same reactions over here as you do in SA. It may be different in the US, where crafting is much more popular generally, but I rather think muggles are muggles everywhere.