Susanne Remic is a primary school teacher, freelance writer and parenting blogger. She writes at Ghostwritermummy and Maternity Matters and in between all of that she regularly wins mummy of the year awards for running around after her two children, aged six and 19 months. This is her pregnancy blog: an online diary of her third pregnancy as she strives to overcome two difficult births, one angel child and one awkward toddler. Join Susanne as she shares every step of her journey from bump to baby!
Knitting for the new generation
By Susanne Remic on 09 Jan 2012
I’m not exactly a ‘secret knitter’- I help to run a knitting club at school and have always loved to click clack through a new project now and then. During my last pregnancy, I produced an alarming number of booties and other such baby goods. I’ve also made a cardigan and a fetching pair of arm warmers in the past, so whilst I’m not exactly an expert, I do know my way around a pattern or two.
The point to this blog post is not to regale you with my creativity. The point is to defend myself and my knitting, and let you into a little secret too. A few months ago, I wrote this for the Huffington Post: Kintting is for cool Kids. I still stand my by statements in this post and yet I am still subjected to occasional ridicule.
Take a member of my own knitting group, for example. Yes, she may have only been eight years old, but children are entitled to their opinions, are they not? Said girl remarked- casually- one day, that knitting was ‘for grannies’. Grannies? Ok, so maybe the older generation are more than likely to pick up a pair of pins than your average twenty something girl about town, but come on! Knitting is cool now. Knitting is for the new generation!
Last night I started a new project for the baby. I’m making a hooded blanket in the softest of lime green wools. I’ve made the same design before so I know the pattern and I can knock one up before the big day, no problem. But here is where I let you into the best kept secret of knitting. This is something that all you knitters out there will know already but will probably not have even realised. Here we go: knitting helps you to lose weight.
There, I said it. Yes, yes, I know I’m pregnant. I know dieting is off the agenda for a few more weeks. But that doesn’t mean I should continue to hoover up chocolate like the sell by date is in the next thirty seconds. Christmas is over, the goose is fat, and now is the time to cease the rate of the weight gain. By knitting. Oh, yes. Think about it. You have the most beautiful soft wool in your hands. You don’t want to spoil it with chocolatey or greasy fingers, do you? More than that, knitting keeps your hands busy and your mind active so that you don’t even think about stuffing your face. Well, it works for me anyway.
That’s why knitting is for the new generation. Call it something of a weight-loss revolution if you like.
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