Lucia, I took your quiz. I think it’s cute, but flawed. I scored a 49%! Don’t you think that’s odd? Probably because I don’t get to travel much, have no local fellow knitters, and have a fairly rigid code of personal conduct regarding where and when I will knit. Also, I “knit” more than 1.42 but less than 5 hours per day. Great quiz anyway!
Yes, it’s probably flawed. But then, most quizzes are flawed!
I wrote it based on signs of addiction I found on a forum. They were pretty funny. There were women who really did claim to own 12 Rubber maid containers of yarn, and skip work to knit!
Still, I kept trying to edit to “rejigger” the scoring, but never came out with something that great. So, I decided: heck, it’s a blog!
Also, I think I need a “machine knitting” quiz that’s different from a hand knitting quiz. Addicted machine knitters are likely to score low on this. After all, you can’t take your machine to mass or shlep it on a vacation. The MK quiz would need “how many machines/ accessories do you own” type questions.
I think the real problem is I need something more complicated than just weighting each score and adding. After all, if you knit 10 hours a day, and skip work but don’t go to meetings, you are probably addicted even if you don’t own totes or zillions of needles!
Also, I think it’s possible that some people knit a lot, but aren’t, strictly speaking addicted. If you read some of the email lists, you’ll find some people really organize all vacations, events etc. around knitting. Although you knit a lot, I’m not sure you do that.
I am pretty sure that I AM addicted to knitting in that I *need* it to relax, I’m just not a hoarder. I buy, or spin, my yarn as needed so don’t have a huge stash. I am also very self controlled in that I force myself to do other needful things rather than knit ALL the time.
I scored 51%, despite the huge stash – I think it’s because the choices of times I can knit is fairly limited. I don’t knit at work. I’d love to, but it’s not possible. I think I would be addicted if I had the time, but if it’s knitting or sleeping, I need the sleep.
I have quite a nice stash going and despite the paltry 44% rating I got, I do consider myself addicted to knitting. I go into I must buy and touch yarn transes whenever I go into a yarn store and buy yarn that I don’t know what I’m going to do with. I guess I’m not much of a rabid knitter as it doens’t consume my whole life, but it is part of my life.
I scored an 84%. This qualifies me as ‘a knitting overachiever.’ I don’t honestly think that “family members may be a bit tired of being asked their opinion about stitch patterns.” Right guys? Guys? Hello…?
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Have to add I knit in waiting rooms and collect patterns from the web. Had to start sorting,cataloging in notebooks so I could find project/pattern to use. Always experimenting with new stitches/patterns and adapting to yarn I like.
You scored 82%. Yes. You are addicted; you are a compulsive over knitter. Your stash and projects are the envy of many other knitters, but family members may be a bit tired of being asked their opinion about stitch patterns.
Egads – 84% I’ve told my husband, “Be glad I collect yarn. I could collect jewelry!” So, he totally tolerates my addiction.
I have a big enough stash to start my own yarn shop – I seriously have at least 40 large plastic totes of yarn. I am 57 years old, so I’ve been at this for a long time. I think I was born with a crochet hook in my hand, and I learned to knit when I was 12.
Some of that yarn is from stores that no longer exist, from back in the days when all I could afford was clearance sale synthetics from Woolworth’s and Kresge’s (see – some of this stuff is older than you!) But that yarn wore like iron (and felt like it, too).
I stilll have an afghan I made to go off to college in 1968. The first pair of socks I ever made for my husband (in 1975 or 76), worsted weight fitted calf ski socks in Mexicali colorway Redheart, still lives, and all four of my kids have worn them, though mostly for Halloween or snow shoveling.
I too got that I am a recreational knitter and can quit anytime!! No I could not–I need it to keep my sanity, and relax. Knitting has kept me from totally losing it during majorly stressful periods in my life–how can I NOT be addicted??!!
I KNOW I’m addicted although I scored only 60%! I’ve been knitting about 50 years and cannot stop. A day without knitting just isn’t right somehow.
My husband often takes me to craft shops 45 or 50 miles or farther away just so I can buy some MORE yarn. He just doesn’t know how many of those Rubbermaid tubs are full of yarn! and I hope he never discovers what’s under the bed! … or in the bottom of the closet, or up in … you get the picture.
I took your quiz and if the questions are of a serious nature I am glad I am considered non addictive. To knit in some of the locations mentioned would not be classed as ‘adictive’ but as but as positively ‘rude’.
Comment by Nessa (Knittingoma) — 4/4/2009 @ 5:53 pm
I think no mag subscriptions lowered my addiction level to 78, probably from 100. I live in florida and have over 100 skeins of worsted and bulky wt yarn from Bartlett in Harmony Maine. Doubles and triples on most straight, dp, and circulars. Over 60 books. Yet, I am content…until I see a new sock yarn. I knit a woolen sweater when I was in Cambodia in August.:)
I think I scored 61 because I don’t knit socks or gloves, don’t knit at work meetings (it’s tempting but my non knitting co workers would think I wasn’t paying attention) and have no magazine subscriptions. But just try and rip the needles out of my hands.
Haha great test, yet I think my results may be skewed by my status as a minor…with no car, regular salary, or major control over my house’s interior design, many of these questions (ex. how far do you drive to buy yarn? How may yarn comventions have you been to?) are n/a lol Still a great test love it!
i once knitted a bright red scarf at a funeral because my grandad asked me to before he died….and when they buried him they put it in with him!!!he was the one that taught me to knit as it had been part of his therapy when he was shot during the war……..and i miss him everyday……but i don’t regret knitting at his funeral……i don’t even regret the comments from my familly as they walked past me in the church…but i do regert that he left me everything in his will, i would give anything just to have him back instead!!!!!
Stumble it (and place in Knitting/crochet!)
I knitted at a wedding. I have knitted at all of those places. I usually only do gauge swatches at home.
Comment by bevin — 7/11/2005 @ 6:44 pm
Lucia, I took your quiz. I think it’s cute, but flawed. I scored a 49%! Don’t you think that’s odd? Probably because I don’t get to travel much, have no local fellow knitters, and have a fairly rigid code of personal conduct regarding where and when I will knit. Also, I “knit” more than 1.42 but less than 5 hours per day. Great quiz anyway!
Comment by Sonja — 7/12/2005 @ 9:40 am
Yes, it’s probably flawed. But then, most quizzes are flawed!
I wrote it based on signs of addiction I found on a forum. They were pretty funny. There were women who really did claim to own 12 Rubber maid containers of yarn, and skip work to knit!
Still, I kept trying to edit to “rejigger” the scoring, but never came out with something that great. So, I decided: heck, it’s a blog!
Also, I think I need a “machine knitting” quiz that’s different from a hand knitting quiz. Addicted machine knitters are likely to score low on this. After all, you can’t take your machine to mass or shlep it on a vacation. The MK quiz would need “how many machines/ accessories do you own” type questions.
I think the real problem is I need something more complicated than just weighting each score and adding. After all, if you knit 10 hours a day, and skip work but don’t go to meetings, you are probably addicted even if you don’t own totes or zillions of needles!
Also, I think it’s possible that some people knit a lot, but aren’t, strictly speaking addicted. If you read some of the email lists, you’ll find some people really organize all vacations, events etc. around knitting. Although you knit a lot, I’m not sure you do that.
Lucia
Comment by lucia — 7/12/2005 @ 11:57 am
hey i got 72%, and i came damned close to knitting at MY wedding, lol. calmer (and male) heads prevailed, lol.
Comment by minnie — 10/30/2006 @ 1:13 pm
I got 52% and “you aren’t addicted”.
I am pretty sure that I AM addicted to knitting in that I *need* it to relax, I’m just not a hoarder. I buy, or spin, my yarn as needed so don’t have a huge stash. I am also very self controlled in that I force myself to do other needful things rather than knit ALL the time.
Comment by marlene — 10/30/2006 @ 4:17 pm
I scored 51%, despite the huge stash – I think it’s because the choices of times I can knit is fairly limited. I don’t knit at work. I’d love to, but it’s not possible. I think I would be addicted if I had the time, but if it’s knitting or sleeping, I need the sleep.
Comment by Catherine — 10/31/2006 @ 5:37 pm
I have quite a nice stash going and despite the paltry 44% rating I got, I do consider myself addicted to knitting. I go into I must buy and touch yarn transes whenever I go into a yarn store and buy yarn that I don’t know what I’m going to do with. I guess I’m not much of a rabid knitter as it doens’t consume my whole life, but it is part of my life.
Comment by Jennifer — 10/31/2006 @ 9:47 pm
I scored an 84%. This qualifies me as ‘a knitting overachiever.’ I don’t honestly think that “family members may be a bit tired of being asked their opinion about stitch patterns.” Right guys? Guys? Hello…?
Comment by Susie — 11/4/2006 @ 3:46 pm
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OMG, I scored 83%, is there a 12 step program I should be joining?
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Have to add I knit in waiting rooms and collect patterns from the web. Had to start sorting,cataloging in notebooks so I could find project/pattern to use. Always experimenting with new stitches/patterns and adapting to yarn I like.
Comment by Cygnet — 10/18/2007 @ 12:15 pm
You scored 82%. Yes. You are addicted; you are a compulsive over knitter. Your stash and projects are the envy of many other knitters, but family members may be a bit tired of being asked their opinion about stitch patterns.
Lol!!! This is too funny!
Comment by Aimee — 10/26/2007 @ 2:52 pm
Egads – 84% I’ve told my husband, “Be glad I collect yarn. I could collect jewelry!” So, he totally tolerates my addiction.
I have a big enough stash to start my own yarn shop – I seriously have at least 40 large plastic totes of yarn. I am 57 years old, so I’ve been at this for a long time. I think I was born with a crochet hook in my hand, and I learned to knit when I was 12.
Some of that yarn is from stores that no longer exist, from back in the days when all I could afford was clearance sale synthetics from Woolworth’s and Kresge’s (see – some of this stuff is older than you!) But that yarn wore like iron (and felt like it, too).
I stilll have an afghan I made to go off to college in 1968. The first pair of socks I ever made for my husband (in 1975 or 76), worsted weight fitted calf ski socks in Mexicali colorway Redheart, still lives, and all four of my kids have worn them, though mostly for Halloween or snow shoveling.
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I’m a little late to the party – found a link to this on Ravelry – fun quiz!
Comment by Ria f — 4/2/2009 @ 7:07 pm
Yay, I am not addicted (49%), although my family and friends think I am
(in a small voice: I think they are right…)
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I too got that I am a recreational knitter and can quit anytime!! No I could not–I need it to keep my sanity, and relax. Knitting has kept me from totally losing it during majorly stressful periods in my life–how can I NOT be addicted??!!
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I KNOW I’m addicted although I scored only 60%! I’ve been knitting about 50 years and cannot stop. A day without knitting just isn’t right somehow.
My husband often takes me to craft shops 45 or 50 miles or farther away just so I can buy some MORE yarn. He just doesn’t know how many of those Rubbermaid tubs are full of yarn! and I hope he never discovers what’s under the bed! … or in the bottom of the closet, or up in … you get the picture.
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I took your quiz and if the questions are of a serious nature I am glad I am considered non addictive. To knit in some of the locations mentioned would not be classed as ‘adictive’ but as but as positively ‘rude’.
Comment by Nessa (Knittingoma) — 4/4/2009 @ 5:53 pm
I think no mag subscriptions lowered my addiction level to 78, probably from 100. I live in florida and have over 100 skeins of worsted and bulky wt yarn from Bartlett in Harmony Maine. Doubles and triples on most straight, dp, and circulars. Over 60 books. Yet, I am content…until I see a new sock yarn. I knit a woolen sweater when I was in Cambodia in August.:)
Comment by forest — 4/4/2009 @ 10:22 pm
I think I scored 61 because I don’t knit socks or gloves, don’t knit at work meetings (it’s tempting but my non knitting co workers would think I wasn’t paying attention) and have no magazine subscriptions. But just try and rip the needles out of my hands.
Comment by Pat — 4/5/2009 @ 10:38 am
Haha great test, yet I think my results may be skewed by my status as a minor…with no car, regular salary, or major control over my house’s interior design, many of these questions (ex. how far do you drive to buy yarn? How may yarn comventions have you been to?) are n/a lol
Still a great test love it!
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This was so funny! great quiz.
Comment by KLM — 4/7/2009 @ 11:30 am
i once knitted a bright red scarf at a funeral because my grandad asked me to before he died….and when they buried him they put it in with him!!!he was the one that taught me to knit as it had been part of his therapy when he was shot during the war……..and i miss him everyday……but i don’t regret knitting at his funeral……i don’t even regret the comments from my familly as they walked past me in the church…but i do regert that he left me everything in his will, i would give anything just to have him back instead!!!!!
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