That's me! My wife crochets like mad, she has about 50 hats stacked up at home, she churns out maybe 3 or 4 a week. Once we went to the movies and she came out with a hat she'd finished in the dark theatre. On one hand I was impressed that she'd done that without looking, like Jimi Hendrix playing guitar behind his head, but on the other hand I was like "don't your crazy crochet hands ever keep still!?!" We're having a baby in November, so it will have a lot of crocheted hats and jumpsuits and all that, but it will also have to share a room with about 1000 balls of wool. If asthma is caused by too-clean environments and no early exposure to dust mites, then our child's immune system should get a nice early introduction to dust mites and grow up big and strong!
I've pointed my husband, very_true_thing in your general direction, he lives with someone who has yarn and scraps of fluff everywhere. I weave and embroider as well as knit so it's tripple trouble!
Also I read an article in the accademic journal Textile: The Journal of Cloth and Culture called hiding the fabric stash, about how quilters collect, horde and hide their stash from their partners and families - there's a summary here:
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We're having a baby in November, so it will have a lot of crocheted hats and jumpsuits and all that, but it will also have to share a room with about 1000 balls of wool. If asthma is caused by too-clean environments and no early exposure to dust mites, then our child's immune system should get a nice early introduction to dust mites and grow up big and strong!
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Also I read an article in the accademic journal Textile: The Journal of Cloth and Culture called hiding the fabric stash, about how quilters collect, horde and hide their stash from their partners and families - there's a summary here:
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/berg/tjcc/2006/00000004/00000001/art00006
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