Let’s give 3 snaps to 3C ( aka, troiscoquettes) for coining a wonderful new knitting term:
I adore this term! I nominate it in the category of “Best New Knitting Term, 2005″.
I suggest the term shall refer to the type of knitter who knits shawl, after shawl after cobweb fine shawl, constantly adding yet another confection to her “My Life as Miss Havisham Collection” of garments. The term will be considered especially valid when applied to those who exude an aura of superiority because they knit using only the finest fibers and the most traditional techniques, and complain that yarn stores and festivals indulge beginning knitters by stocking too many novelty yarns.
Hmm… if I were a really opinionated, I might also suggest a contest to identify “Crone of the Craft Queen, 2005″!
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LOL!
I second the nomination. Let’s put it to a vote!
Comment by Billi-Jean — 10/17/2005 @ 5:09 pm
We may need some additional nominations!
Comment by lucia — 10/17/2005 @ 5:12 pm
i nominate Marilyn, the Knitting Curmudgeon as the “Crone of the Craft Queen, 2005″. Altho, in my religious beliefs (at least on monday, tuesday, thursday and sometimes saturdays), a crone is . . . well, not a -bad- sort of thing.
Comment by Ashlan — 10/26/2005 @ 1:37 pm
I agree that a crone is not an entirely bad thing. As blog owner, I feel I must let visitors nominate and second. So, I will limit myself to asking if anyone seconds the nomination?
Comment by lucia — 10/26/2005 @ 1:55 pm
This is great. I can’t to wait to whip out this term next time my sister and I are at a certain knit shop near us.
Comment by Amy — 10/26/2005 @ 3:47 pm
didn’t you once say:
“Yesterday, a knitflame poster who uses the name “troiscoquettes”1, or “3c” for short, began posting a number of vitriol laden but, somehow incomprehensible, screeds complaining she had been banned from the KBTH email list.”
Naturally, I was also curious to double check the meaning of “trois coquettes”. According to Word Reference.com, “Trois Cocquettes” may translate into either “3 flirts” or “3 cuckoo wrasses“. I currently favor the second interpretation. Note “… the cuckoo has strong teeth, both in the jaws (for biting and rasping) and on the pharyngeal bones in the throat (for gripping and crushing) ….”.
is that the same 3c?
Comment by Brandi Jo — 12/13/2005 @ 6:33 pm
Hey, y’all, I’ll second thenomination of the Knitting Curmudgeon for Crone Queen. I’m pretty sure that li’l ol’ gal will take to the title like ducks on a bug.
Comment by Chrystaleen-Amber Dobst — 12/13/2005 @ 6:46 pm
Hhmm… I may need to actually hold a contests for the title!
And yes, Brandi, it is the one, the only, the same 3C!
She posts sometimes funny, sometimes incomprehensible and always very opinionated things at knitflame. (I also post opinionated things at knitflame.)
The impossible to comprehend one I commented on was the first posts of hers I’d read.
That post was, in fact, impossible to comprehend. You could tell she was angry and you could tell that she’d been kicked off KBTH’s email list. But, the other gripes? Vaguely alluded too.
As it happens, that post was followed by tons and tons of incomprehensible posts at both Knitflame and KBTHOF yahoo email groups during that period of time.
In fact, 3C’s weren’t the only incomprehensible ones. At a later point during that ‘KBTH imbrolio’, two knitters began to cut and paste their their private email exchanges on a public knit list to prove which of the two was worse. Afterwards they began to exchange the ‘F’ word on a public email list.
There were tons of “incomprehensible screeds!”
As to the meaning of 3C, someone did ask 3C what it stood for. Evidently, it’s the “3 flirts” and was the name of some famous designer’s studio (possibly Cocco Chanel.)
Comment by lucia — 12/14/2005 @ 9:59 am