Knitters a security threat?

[damned_colonial]

Via @gloss, check this out: Cowichan First Nation knitters investigated as a security threat for Vancouver Winter Olympics. I'm used to all the knitting-on-airplanes discussion about pointy needles omg, but this is ... different :-/

Comments

[19_crows]

It sucks that the Mounties are going after the knitters, but... I have a hard time seeing the problem with using the sweater design. If it's being acknowledged as a Cowichan design, that seems fine. Isn't knitting about using different patterns and techniques from all over? Lots of people knit fair isle even if they aren't from a little Scottish island, and it's well known that the technique and style originated there. Are Cowichan sweaters different?

I'm biased because I own a Cowichan-style sweater that I got at a garage sale and love even though it seems to be acrylic, and would like to knit one in wool.

[laughingrat]

AUGH. D:

I blogged about it on Knittingrat. I think only a few people read that anyway, but really, the fiber world seems so conservative--I wonder if it will get negative feedback. Well, tough.

[cynthia1960]

What the *frak*? Don't the Mounties have something better to do? Let the First Nation knitters do their thing.

[19_crows]

Where's Knittingrat? I'll read it. I agree that the knitting world seems conservative.

[laughingrat]

*grin* http://knittingrat.blogspot.com, a very irregularly-updated knitting blog. As I become more and more of a halfassed feminist blogger (or maybe, a feminist halfassed blogger), it seems to be spreading to Knittingrat. It's the address I give when I post comments on a lot of public blogs, too, because it's considerably less personal than any other journal I use online.

[hillarygayle]

You know us knitters. Always so touchy & wielding sharp objects.

[moonpuppy]

I don't know from "national security" but I'm a shitload more dangerous on a plane WITHOUT my needles, than I am with them.