The Knitting Fiend

 

Let’s get medieval
and wear chain links ’round our necks:
but please, knit the links.

 

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According to a Vanessa of Entre Nous, scarves like these are all the rage in the UK. I live in Chicago, so I really don’t know. The scarves are kind of neat though.

I wonder if Vanessa sells the pattern?

Ok… so you’re wondering: How did she find this? And is this haiku a “blog-o-mercial?” Is Lucia making progress on earning megabucks by associating odd commercial products with hand knitting?

Well, it’s not a blog-o-mercial! But the haiku comes to you as a direct result of my attempt to write a knitting haiku blog-o-mercial to promote tobacco hookahs. That’s right, tobacco hookahs!

Mind you, I don’t even approve of tobacco. And I’m not sure the hookahs are really intended for tobacco. But hey! I’d be doing this both for the mega bucks– $7.50 plus the challenge of finding an associating knitting with hookahs. Which is quite a challenge because what in the world do tobacco hookahs and knitting have in common? (Both recreational? Both habit forming?)

My first thought: Why not do a google image search on “hookah knitting”. I did, and found zero images of knitted hookahs, or knitters smoking hookahs, or even knitters knitting in a tobacco (or opium) house.

Around page five, I did find an alluring cartoon of a glamorous woman wearing feathers. She was not knitting, but I was intrigued.

I clicked and went to Lux Totus, where I read the author ooooohhing and aaaahhing over these hand knit chain link scarves. That lead me to the crafter’s blog, and eventually her Entre Nous, Etsy Store.

Then, the Haiku came to me!