13 thoughts on “Purl Jam

  1. Johnny Keenan

    Ya got me again BS with your clever but misleading headline.

    As it turns out I’ll be wearing my PJ’s to Malahide summer 2019.
    Cause Eddie and the boys are still ALIVE!!

    We could get a knitting circle going and knit the longest scarf in the world and wrap it around the castle in honour of the wooliest working band in the world.
    Or knit a big massive hat Just for the big woolly heads on them. At the very least one or Ten for Jeff Ament. To go with his immaculate collection.

    I just have to wait now for someone to stick the needle in

  2. Spaghetti Hoop

    Well, blokes have learned to cook and bake. And darn their socks during wartime, do their own laundry, change their kids’ nappies. They make fantastic calligraphers. Seems only fitting that knitting casts off its gender labels.

  3. Starina

    hnnnnhhh it irritates me that they frame it as a masculine form of knitting. As if there’s knitting needles made of surgical steel, formed in the glaciers of wherever, which won’t give one a weeping vagina in the middle of their forehead like regular knitting needles.

    Like *shudder* Broga. Or men’s earplugs. Or men’s yoghurts.

    But if it gets some fragile-egoed men to knit, fair play, I guess? It’s supposed to be a good form of meditation, for those who can’t just sit still.

    1. Andyourpointiswhatexactly?

      I know one guy who knits. He’s got a head I wouldn’t get tired of kicking, were I the violent type.

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