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knittingMy friend Josh is in the hospital without anything to do, so he's just dying for something to knit. Apparently even trying to knit with an IV in his hand is better than being as bored as he is, so I'm supposed to be finding patterns for his fiance to bring him.
He also has this obnoxious homophobic roommate at the hospital who was so terribly offended that he'd kiss his fiance good night and tell him he loves him. So when I was talking to Josh last night, the conversation went from how astonished and delighted he was by the knitted beard pattern he saw in the latest Knit Picks catalog that someone brought him to how he thinks he should knit a penis just to freak his roommate out (since he already expects that kind of jerk to be annoyed by him knitting at all, which is half the reason he's willing to try), do people make patterns for that? Once we started talking about the options he has there, he decided that since he and his boy are getting married in Windsor, Ontario on I think it's the 15th of February, he wants to knit him and his fiance matching willy warmers since it's bound to be pretty damn cold up there.
My question here is I guess two part:
1) I only taught him to knit a couple days before Thanksgiving this year. I know he's made two hats and I think might have started a third, but that's all he's knitted. I haven't actually looked at any specific patterns yet--basically all I could tell him was that I know patterns for willy warmers exist--but would this actually be easy enough for him to try at this point?
2)The thing I'd actually been concerned about is what the hell kind of yarn do you use for those things? Because plain wool seems like it might be pretty harsh for that kind of delicate tissue, and anything softer I can think of (alpaca, merino) seems like it'd get too warm pretty quickly. Some kind of acrylic?
He also has this obnoxious homophobic roommate at the hospital who was so terribly offended that he'd kiss his fiance good night and tell him he loves him. So when I was talking to Josh last night, the conversation went from how astonished and delighted he was by the knitted beard pattern he saw in the latest Knit Picks catalog that someone brought him to how he thinks he should knit a penis just to freak his roommate out (since he already expects that kind of jerk to be annoyed by him knitting at all, which is half the reason he's willing to try), do people make patterns for that? Once we started talking about the options he has there, he decided that since he and his boy are getting married in Windsor, Ontario on I think it's the 15th of February, he wants to knit him and his fiance matching willy warmers since it's bound to be pretty damn cold up there.
My question here is I guess two part:
1) I only taught him to knit a couple days before Thanksgiving this year. I know he's made two hats and I think might have started a third, but that's all he's knitted. I haven't actually looked at any specific patterns yet--basically all I could tell him was that I know patterns for willy warmers exist--but would this actually be easy enough for him to try at this point?
2)The thing I'd actually been concerned about is what the hell kind of yarn do you use for those things? Because plain wool seems like it might be pretty harsh for that kind of delicate tissue, and anything softer I can think of (alpaca, merino) seems like it'd get too warm pretty quickly. Some kind of acrylic?
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Date: 2012-01-09 05:37 am (UTC)