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Willy warmer followup
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meretiaOkay, so long story short, my friend Josh was in the hospital with appendicitis about a month ago. He had this absolutely terrible roommate who basically hated him and his fiance, Andy, and their very dear friend Aidan for being/seeming gay (it's part of the long, long story).
One of the times I was visiting Josh, he was amazed and delighted the knitted beard pattern he'd seen in the latest Knit Picks catalog. So we got to talking about all the silly things one can knit (he's only been knitting since a little before Thanksgiving) and he started musing about how he should knit a penis just to be obnoxious, since he expected his roommate to give him flack for knitting at all. So I pulled Ravelry up on my computer and we looked at the "mature content" patterns for a while, and he decided that he'd be too embarrassed to actually use a penis chapstick cozy or anything like that, but he did like the idea of making matching willy warmers for him and Andy since they were getting married in Ontario in February and he expected it to be cold. Because Josh is just the kind of gentle soul whose response to someone being so cruel to him and the people he loves isn't just spiteful knitting, it's pragmatic spiteful knitting.
So I asked here what yarns would be appropriate for such a project. I ended up saying that I'd buy him the yarn as a wedding present since one of the ones he was interested in is at the LYS at which I usually shop. And then I ended up saying I'd start them for him since he had a hard time casting on with DPNs. Then I ended up saying I'd do one of them since he wasn't sure he'd get them done in time for the wedding.
Their wedding is Wednesday. We actually all drove up to Leamington today. I've done basically nothing but knit the last couple weekends and I was up until 12:30 last night (before I had to be up at 8:00 to drive five hours), but I finally finished the fool thing.
( Cut in case of home or workplaces that object to knit manbits. And also, actually, a rather long post )
One of the times I was visiting Josh, he was amazed and delighted the knitted beard pattern he'd seen in the latest Knit Picks catalog. So we got to talking about all the silly things one can knit (he's only been knitting since a little before Thanksgiving) and he started musing about how he should knit a penis just to be obnoxious, since he expected his roommate to give him flack for knitting at all. So I pulled Ravelry up on my computer and we looked at the "mature content" patterns for a while, and he decided that he'd be too embarrassed to actually use a penis chapstick cozy or anything like that, but he did like the idea of making matching willy warmers for him and Andy since they were getting married in Ontario in February and he expected it to be cold. Because Josh is just the kind of gentle soul whose response to someone being so cruel to him and the people he loves isn't just spiteful knitting, it's pragmatic spiteful knitting.
So I asked here what yarns would be appropriate for such a project. I ended up saying that I'd buy him the yarn as a wedding present since one of the ones he was interested in is at the LYS at which I usually shop. And then I ended up saying I'd start them for him since he had a hard time casting on with DPNs. Then I ended up saying I'd do one of them since he wasn't sure he'd get them done in time for the wedding.
Their wedding is Wednesday. We actually all drove up to Leamington today. I've done basically nothing but knit the last couple weekends and I was up until 12:30 last night (before I had to be up at 8:00 to drive five hours), but I finally finished the fool thing.
( Cut in case of home or workplaces that object to knit manbits. And also, actually, a rather long post )