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

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.

Lol!!! This is too funny!

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.