The only normal people are those you don’t know very well yet
So I knit. I can be a little obsessive at times about knitting. I like a good yarn as much (or more) than the next knitter and I have far more projects than time and yet. And yet I still think this is bizarre. Foul, even. Like making a necklace from your dead husband’s hair (oh those wacky Victorians). Does anyone really want to wear a scarf made from their darling dog’s sheddings? Or knit a bouquet of fur flowers?
All right, so I get that a lot of yarn is made of animal hair. I get that many luxury yarns are made from rabbit hair and llama hair and camel hair. And I know I’m not a pet-owner and that there’s a mystical owner-pet love mania that might actually make the idea of knitting with their hair an attractive one. A sort of “Hey, I can’t bring my dog on vacation but I can wear this darling little capelet I knit with the fluff I yanked out of his brush.”
Still, I don’t get it. Of course, I also don’t get why I’m such a hypersensitive, overreactive maniac so perhaps there are many mysteries I am simply not privy to and perhaps if I had more ability to channel my inner serene Zen-master Tibetan monk, it would all make sense.
You’re going to think I’m completely insane, but after I brushed my babies yesterday and was cleaning off the brush into the trash, it did occur to me the wonder how much fur I would have to gather to make a scarf….
My cats have such lovely gray fur, and if I could wear them around my neck all the time, I probably would.
I can’t quite get my mind to bend around this one. I love my cats, but I think I’d miss the warmth and purring that are synonymous with the fur. I am used to being annoyed by the fur that is no longer attached to them – but rather to my favorite black slacks.
And what about after they’d passed? Having a little kitty beret would just be too much. I suppose it isn’t as bad as those wackos who have their deceased pets stuffed and mounted, though. Eewww.
I’m with you. Ick!
And…can someone please explain to me what the squiggly little letters at the sign-in window are supposed to do??
The dead guy hair freaks me out! I’ve often thought that knitting with my cat’s hair might be cool! God knows there is enough of it everywhere! But not completely sure about that.
Dog hair, I think, would be gross. Dogs are smelly and yucky. I guess a cat would be too if it were outdoor. My cat’s are indoor.
Whoa. I’m pretty much speechless.
EWWWWWW! That’s just wierd. Gross!
Blech. Ick!
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