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Knitting makes you an old maid? What's up with that?! She could at least be crocheting! (Gasp! Did I say that out loud? Just kidding crocheters, really.)

posted by alison at 1:45 pm | in just blogging 06

Comments

Aargh! That is awful! Foolish, foolish people, they should see how young and hip knitters really are!

Posted by: Kirsten at August 27, 2006 2:18 PM

Oy vey. But take heart--at least you don't paint. Evidently, that makes you crazy eight times over. ;-)

Posted by: k. at August 27, 2006 2:51 PM

Let's not forget that she hardly looks old. Later for the knitting you can be an old maid now with no gray hair or wrinkles.

Posted by: Wanett at August 27, 2006 3:23 PM

As a girl who is unmarried, studies medieval lit, lives with a cat, lots of books and lots of yarn, I have to defend the old maid. I intend to be the most kick-ass old maid ever.

Posted by: Specs at August 27, 2006 5:12 PM

Apparently you'll also need glasses if you're going to be a knitting old maid!

Posted by: Lazuli at August 27, 2006 5:13 PM

Oh Alison. This post is so funny. I just met some American relatives TODAY who brought this game box for their 7-year old daughter with them. I was knitting while the family played "crazy eights". When they switched over to "old maid" the girl shouted out that this would be me on the cover. Huh? I hadn't recognized that the cover displayed a woman knitting by then! I guess, that's what she meant ;-)

Posted by: carola at August 27, 2006 5:32 PM

And all the old maid can think about is love, apparently.

Posted by: knitopia at August 27, 2006 6:34 PM

Well, I'm 41, single and a knitter, so I guess I fit the stereotype, unfortunately, but I think I'm actually the exception to the rule, as most knitters I know are married or have significant others.

Posted by: Mary at August 27, 2006 10:58 PM

At least she wasn't surrounded by fifty cats.

Posted by: Beth S. at August 28, 2006 10:11 AM

LOL

Posted by: Orli at August 28, 2006 11:37 AM

Hilarious!

Posted by: Miss Scarlett at August 28, 2006 12:42 PM

Well, the word "spinster" means a woman whose occupation is to spin. These stereotypes have been around for awhile. ugh!

Posted by: Lavendersheep at August 28, 2006 1:49 PM

I think it only makes you an old lady if you knit horrid acrylic hearts, strangely-placed polka dots, and weirdo squiggly lines into everything, as demonstrated on the card. ;)

Posted by: Megan at August 28, 2006 2:42 PM

hey hey, watch it now! we crocheters can be pretty hip--errrr is it groovy, again? cool. rad.
oy. i'm so behind LOL

Posted by: rebecca at August 29, 2006 11:11 AM

Right Rebecca, exactly! So maybe she should be, um, tatting?

Posted by: alison at August 29, 2006 8:20 PM