I love that show too! I was sooooo excited last night when I turned it on and they were knitting. I want a knitathon here.... wah!

I was amazed at the lack of technique, myself. And, did you notice that they switched out Miss Patti's needles? She started with gigantic ones (at which point I yelled - no fair, she has an unfair advantage - but I guess it's all for fictional charity, so it's okay) - but then she suddenly had tiny little needles at the end. Maybe it was a varied texture pattern.

I love that show too! I was sooooo excited last night when I turned it on and they were knitting. I want a knitathon here.... wah!

Thanks for posting the Stars Hollow Knit-A-Thon pictures. I really enjoyed this particular episode - but it went by so fast I couldn't pick up all the juicy knitting bits, plus I have a really small TV. I think the GG show people should put out a DVD with just the knitting parts of this episode (for the true knitting and GG fans.) It seems like a lot of effort went into putting the Knit-A-Thon together - and all that effort shouldn't be lost forever. Best - Hester from Atlanta

oh man! the first week in a while I've missed it and they go and knit. thanks for the reCAP!! i have a question: what's the general consensus about the new writers? do you think this season as good as the others or does it feel different?

So funny! When I was watching the episode last night I was thinking OMG Crazy Aunt Purl will be bustin' when she sees this (I'm in the eastern time zone and all). And I too watched Lorelai to see if she was really knitting. Awesome!

Maybe because I myself have no real technique, I didn't notice LOL. I did see the switched out Miss Patti's needles but mostly I was like, ooooh! knitting!

More on-screen knitting to come!!!

Julia Roberts has been tapped by Universal for the upcoming project "The Friday Night Knitting Club." The film is based on an up-and-coming book written by Kate Jacobs set to be published in January. The film will base its plot around a single mom taking on the tasks of running a knitting store and raising her daughter in New York. The buzz around town is that Julia's on screen child will be played by her niece Emma Roberts.

I personally am too miffed at Lorelei's elopement to enjoy that she knits. But I am glad you tivoed the knitting, because I too was wondering if they were really knitting. And is Sookie really knitting while wearing knitted gloves??

Sookie/Suki/Sukie??? had on those convertible gloves that have a mitten-part that slides back to reveal fingerless gloves -- I thought that was a nice touch! Knitty had a pattern for something similar once.

I think the writing is fine, fine-ish, but I, too, was weirded out with the elopement. My take on it is that Lorelai and Chris are not legally married (obviously) so that leaves the door open for Luke, somehow somewhere.

And will they really take April off the show since she just got "in" the jive of the storyline?

That totally rocks. I believe I need to start watching that show -- it is now firmly validated via the knitting. Here's hoping Netflix has previous seasons out on DVD. Oh, and I'm with you on the rewinding live TV thing. It's now agony to watch TV somewhere else, (hotels, my parents' house) when they DON'T have a DVR.

Too funny...

Hey Auntie!

I actually thought of you when I saw that Lorelai would be KNITTING!! How COOL?! Love you, love your cats!

And knitting in Grey's Anatomy, too. I like the way TV world is going.

Now I wish I watched Gilmore Girls! (This is going to sound so dorky...) Was their knitting progressing at a normal rate? Or was it TV magic "I knit a sweater in 15 minutes" style?

I try to TiVo my car radio ALL THE TIME. We should really invent that and become millionaires.

I blogged about this today, too! I'm glad I'm not the only one still watching!

I can't believe how good your TV pictures came out! Am I the only one geeky enough to mention this? anyway, knitting on the Gilmore Girls....up until the CW I never knew anything of this show (no cable) Wow they talk a lot!

TiVo is seriously dangerous. i dont have it but a friend of mine does and it will ruin you. my mom offered to teach me how to knit. i am afraid to start b/c i have enough obsessive-compulsive habits. i have 3 cats.

I was so excited by last night's episode! They had some real purdy swifts in Luke's diner--and I totally cracked up at all of Taylor's blue boucle. Fun times in Stars Hollow . . .

I've never watched the Gilmore Girls, but I am happy to see the media portraying knitting in a positive light. I'm sick and tired of people thinking that it is exclusively the domain of those with blue hair. I had a childhood friend (male) tell me that I need a rocking chair. I told him that this girl is still rocking, but not in a chair.

Too frickin hilarious :) I love the Gilmore Girls, haven't watched in a long time though. I think I've only seen one episode where Luke and Lorelai were together (where they first got together), that's how long it's been. Yaaay snappy dialogue!

Just when I thought it was impossible for Crazy Aunt Purl to get any better. Gilmore Girls! I love that show!
And I've been boycotting GGirls since Lor. and Luke broke up. I'm not happy about the whole marrying Christopher thing, but that can't last forever...right? Anyway I temporarily forgave it last night when Stars Hollow had their knitathon.
Knitting, Gilmore Girls, and Aunt Purl talking about both. My crappy week's just gotten a little better!

I dunno. I kinda think they were poking fun at knitters else why the blue boucle? At least they didn't have a character knit a sweater, wear it and give it as a present all in the course of one day (Grey's Anatomy).

I must be the only person watching the show who likes Christopher and Lorelai together. I'm guessing he's gonna screw up soon, though, so Luke can get back with Lorelai and keep secrets from her again.

Heh. Maybe I take tv a bit too seriously.

As I was watching Gilmore Girls last night I thought of you... ( some woman I never met ) because of that knitathon... and because of their whitty writing style.. Ilove that show.. my husband grunts and goes to hide so do my kids.. but I dont care... LOVE that show.. and am so glad Loreli married Christopher.. why ... cause he is way cuter than luke duh

I don't usually watch it either, though I have seen it a few times. Yay for knitting (or any fiber-arts) on TV! Especially by young people!

And Mary in Virginia - Netflix does have GG in thier catalog. A friend of mine watched all the previous seasons before she started watching the new one. Good luck!

Mary in Boston... I thought the Taylor blue boucle was mostly poking fun at Taylor, you know how he can be about Stars Hollow events! That one year they had the bike event didn't he wear spandex bike pants?

And the other townspeople seemed to all have pretty yarn and be wearing really nice scarves and stuff. Or maybe I was just so excited about the knitting!!

Or maybe I also take teevee a wee bit seriously ;)

I like Christopher, I just want to see an actual wedding that Lorelai's parents can attend, because Lord I do love me some Emily Gilmore. Bless her heart.

I love me some Emily Gilmore too!!!! She's awesome!

Miss Patty and Babette and Taylor all kind of bug me anyway. But I love Suki!!!!!!!

Yeah, a real wedding would be cool, but if it's Luke and Lorelai, it's bound to be something kind of unusual, right?

I still don't think Sookie was actually knitting. She holds her sticks too high! I loved that most of the knitters were wearing scarves -- soo cool and Taylor looked like a giant smurf!

Hey, did you happen to get a screenshot of Lorelai's "Knit or Go Home" shirt? I gotta make me one of those.

Our shared love for "GG" is just another reason to like you, darlin'!

D

I'm glad I'm not the only one trying to TiVo other things in my life. I also do it with the radio and real-life conversations. Scary!

darcidoodle, that tshirt is available at cafepress. I loved it too and am thinking of ordering one.

Gosh, if only I could do the five second thing on the radio. I find myself looking for the remote, trying to figure out what someone just said on NPR. YIKES!

GG - one of my MANY guilty pleasures. :) I thought Lor was totally rocking that Knit or Go Home shirt - I probably won't be making me one, but I'll find on on these inner-webs!!!

Last night's gg was one of my favorite episodes in a long, long, time..maybe ever..I love the idea that Lorelai and Christopher might not be legally married..I want her to get back together with Luke soo bad! And I don't want April to leave, either, I'm really starting to like her. I got so excited with all the knitting last night. (Umm..did Paris's dancing make anyone else want to throw up?)

YES! I LOVE GG!!!
and didn't Lorelai look like she was just short of sticking her tongue out while she was knitting, she was concentrating that hard?! :o)
i recorded last night's episode. i'm going to watch it tonight.
i dunno- i'm not so sure about Taylor's sweater ensemble... heehee! that was just too cool that GG featured knitting! excellent! we are slowly but surely dee-vide-ing and conquering!!!
muahahaha!

I miss staying current with GG. You see I live out in the middle of nowhere (southern illinois) and my cable company dropped the channel that carries the new season. But I am living happily by watching previous seasons. I do LOVE me some GG. And I do love crazy aunt purl! I secretly take teevee too seriously too.

God, I wish I lived in Stars Hollow. It's so pretty and everyone is so nice.

Man, I hope my DVR caught this episode! I can't wait to see it. I'm a little behind on my episodes though, I didn't know about Lor getting married. I'm now very bummed. She should be with Luke!!!

I think I may have to start watching Gilmore Girls.

I'm so sad! After CW took over TheWB they changed the night Gilmore Girls came on...and now I have to work. Boo.

And I don't have TiVo. I don't even have a VCR. I *do* have a DVD player, but not recorder. The 21st century eludes me.

Is GG on YouTube?

I can't tell you how many times I've tried to hit the 5-second rewind button on my radio. I'm glad I'm not the only one.

You mean all the other channels just don't stop broadcasting when NCIS, HOUSE and Boston Legal are on Tuesday nights? *L*

o.0

You asks yourself what LG would do and I ask myself what Alan Shore would do. Either way I think we're both okay. heh. mostly. ;^)

ok so you just opened the door to something that has been on my mind since i watched the elopement in paris.

see, i wanted to get married in france but we weren't allowed to becasue although i'm technically a citizen, i'm not a resident. you have to live in france for 2 months (give or take) to be legally married in france.

so at first i thought "man! they're making shit up just for a fictional show!" i like my fiction to have a minimal base in reality. but maybe ... the writers knew all about the legality of a french wedding and are using it as an out.

by the way, when you get married in france, you're required to have a civil ceremony. you can have a religious ceremony if you'd like, but you need to get married by a civil servant, ie. the town mayor.

maryse, I think it was definitely part of the plot to get Lorelai and Luke back together somehow... the only way "out" of the Chris thing is the not-valid marriage. Except... well, it's still odd. A little bit skeevy, don't you think? Here she is married to Rory's dad but we all pretty much know she'll end up with Luke. I dunno. Seems weird somehow.

i agree. it does seem weird/ but i honestly don't know anymore. lorelei hasn't been acting like herself and neither is luke. last season wasn't right. and this season is just more of the same. despite the knitting.

i haven't watched the episode yet, but i'll check out they're technique

I've been watching some of the earlier GGs and the chemistry between L&L, *sizzle*! Not so much after they finally got together tho. Sad. And yes! Emily! Love her. :-) Mostly tho, I want Rory's hair. I have serious hair lust issues.

Sound policies for a happier life!

LOL!!! I am CONSTANTLY trying to rewind my life now that I've been spoiled by my DVR. Constantly reaching for rewind on the radio especially, but even in conversations with co-workers, meetings where I'm not really paying attention. It's bad. Glad to know I'm not the only one.

Yay, I'm glad that I wasn't the only knitter to post about the Gilmore Girls knitathon. I was pretty sad to see that they (almost everyone) was only knitting garter stitch scarves. I was hoping to see some circular needles, and more impressively, DPNS. Oh, well. They probably only learned to knit for that episode. I bet any of us Gilmore-lovin' knitters would have jumped at the chance to show off our knitting skills on television.

I'm so glad I am not the only one who tries to Tivo the car radio! Always feel like an idiot when I do that.

I have seriously hit the tivo rewind button after my dogs do something cute. Like picked it up and pointed it at them, laughing all the while.
It doesn't work. Just FYI.
If only we could use the remote in our daily life...I would speed right through work, skip traffic completely...

I loved Kurt, walking around and offering free knitting needles. Why doesn't that happen in real life?

Elizabeth, I think they were all kniting plain items cause they were attempting to raise money. They got pledges per skein, too.

And for the Luke/Lor fans, I've seen a couple of spoilers that give us a LOT of hope for those two.

You know what's weird? If you watch cartoons (quiet, all of you) and there is a cartoon character knitting, they are always knitting upside down. I first saw Marge knitting upside down on The Simpsons and now I notice it all the time. WTF?

Oh noes! there are GG spoliers in these comments. Aaaaargh! Oh well, never mind, Lorleai knitting is good. My lovely friend in the States sends me the DVDs as soon as they come out, we're up to season three so far. And then she sent a DVD player because we didn't have one. Did I mention what a lovely friend she is?

Anyhoo, if ever you get the chance, watch Emily Gilmore with the French dubbing on, she is hilarious en français.

That's okay missy. I take weird pictures all the time. I also love that show! It always throws me off when I see Lorelai sewing or knitting. She just doesn't come off as the crafty type. She seem like someone who would accidently end up with macaroni hot-glued to her furniture. I can imagine Suki being quite the crafty knitter. Maybe I equate cooking skills with crafting skills. -p.s. glad to hear you are celebrating the xmas season again! oh, the healing power of time.

OK. I don't watch that show but I am ALWAYS trying to Tivo fast forward through commercials with the stinkin hotel room remote when I travel. I hate real TV.

Jenn, re: knitting upside down on cartoons...

A few years ago, the Northern bathroom tissue people introduced those old ladies in their commercials as quilters, except they had them KNITTING a quilt! Like holding the knitting needles (upside down, natch) on top of the quilt and miraculously quilting it. My mouth dropped open and I screamed at the teevee "you can't KNIT a QUILT, you IDIOTS!" And then, the next time I saw the commercial. they'd changed it! I bet some silly men drew up that one. Fact checkers on vacay and all.

I'm gonna have to Netflix the Gilmore Girls cuz ::in tiny voice:: I've, um, never seen it? I know! I know! I have a hard time with the accumulation of serialized TV shows. I'm good for, like, one or two and it's all over after that.

I told my daughter last night after the show that I bet you write about it today! How great was that? And where do you get that t-shirt that said "Knit or Go Home" with the skull and needles? That's all I want for Christmas! Yay for the Gilmore Girls!

I was excited by the knitting, too.
I think the earlier seasons of GG were better than last season (when they had the original writers) and this one, so far. I don't really like Christopher, and I don't think they'll take April off the show because look how at the end Luke FINALLY stood up to Anna!
As for taking TV too seriously, I can't tell you the number of times my friends and I have sat around analyzing Anna's character as if she were a real person ("She's always been that way! She didn't even tell Luke she was pregnant twelve years ago!") and arguing over who we like better--Luke or Christopher.
Oh, and is anyone else WEIRDED OUT by the "fake friends," the girls at the end of the episode sitting around talking about the show, as if they're not real people and not actresses?

I just found out you can get the KNIT OR GO HOME t-shirt at cafepress.com. They are white though, not black, but still cute!

Laurie--They bought a bunch of the stuff for their knitting stuff here at Sit 'n' Stitch in Toluca Lake (the store where I work). But I didn't even know the knitting episodes had started until I read it on your blog!!!! I think they are going to be doing more knitting on future episodes. Thank goodness I TiVO GG anyway!

This has to happen right after my insane landlady has a fit of pique and turns off my DVR (and consequently cable)!

She really is nuts.

Two weeks ago, somebody offered me a great deal on a great apartment, and I mentionrd it to her. Just the fact that it was offered. No decisions.

She started threatening to sue me, and then calmed down and told me to be out by the end of the month!

Then she drove over on Thanksgiving to ask me if I intended to pay the utilities, and when I said yes, turned off cable.

The DVR was set to record Gilmore Girls!

O want to see it! I want to see Lorilai's shirt that everyone keeps raving about!

Why didn't you take a photo of her shirt??

They got married? When did THAT happen?

I'm trying to decide if it's worth extra money to get a DVR at the new place, but that ability to back up a few seconds is worth $2.50 a week!

Thanks for reminding me! I have to do it as soon as I recover from the security deposit for the new place.

I squeed a bit when I heard about the Stars Hollow Knitathon. I was so pleased to see knitting portrayed as "hip" and not something just little old ladies do!

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Melise that is so cool!!!!

When I get home I will try to remeber to get a pic of the t-shirt LOL.

I loved when Luke kicked all the knitters out of the diner! Fear of something like this happening in real life is part of why I don't belong to a regular knit group. When will they come out with WWLGD bracelets?

Oh my goodness! I loved the episode last night! I was amazed at the effort put into the giant needles and balls of yarn at the "entrance" of the event! I want to live in any town that goes to that much trouble! Also glad to hear that the "Knit or Go Home" t-shirt is on cafepress! I'm ordering one ASAP!
And, to throw in my two cents, I'm on the "boo-lorelai-and-christopher-got-married" team. I definitely think she should be with Luke!
Luv ya, Aunt Purl! :D

As usual, I haven't a clue what ya'll are talking about. But, look! knitting! (Laurie, do you still knit?)

(Look how I spelled "ya'll." Ya'll are finally getting to me.)

I don't watch the GG, only because I already have too many television shows that I watch and I am a tv junkie. But now that I'm knitting 10 hours a day, tv is what keeps me company.

I had to respond to what you said about Tivo...I cannot tell you how lazy tivo has made me. I am a horrible listener now because my brain believes that whatever it is that I'm hearing, I can just rewind it! I try to rewind radio ALL THE TIME.

*sigh* good to know someone else out there does it too.

Can we invite Lorelai to come over? I so want to be her best friend. I "borrowed" your WWLGD (thank you!), it's such a good thing.

Those tv pictures are too good!
"Knit or go home!"

OK. I had to stop reading after the introduction because I have not watched the episode yet and was afraid there may be spoilers. I did notice in the episode description that there was mention of the knit-a-thon though and I squealed. That's right. As I was looking on Monday night through the DVR recordings for the week, I squealed.

For all you TiVo fanatics (Like me!) out there in Laurie-Land, did you know that there are lots of undocumented TiVo "hacks"?

The complete list can be found at:
http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?t=122090

There are also several good books out on TiVo hacking, including adding extra hard drives to triple your recording capabilities.

Warning: Use of any unauthorized hack will void your warranty or could damage/destroy your TiVo. But if your TiVo is a few years old, it is probably past that point already....

I've performed a few of these keystroke hacks (The non-dangerous kind) on my own TiVo, and they all work as advertised.

-Joe

EEK! I thought I was the only one who tried to rewind NPR in the car!! We are scarily more alike than you will ever know!

Yes, TIVO (in my case, my DISH DVR) is very cool!! It allows me to knit and watch tv and still be able to catch something I might have missed whilst counting stitches!

LOVE YOU LAURIE! Thank you! Gilmore Girls is on of my FAVORITE shows!

I have to say I loved the episode, BUT I know that those Stars Hollowians (?) cannot have been real knitters because they all packed up 7 hours early! What knitters would do that? No, we'd stay and knit even if all the money was already raised!

DH hates Christopher. For a man who prefers the history channel or Holmes on Homes, he's pretty vocal in his dislike and he can't wait unit Luke knocks the crap outta him...LOLOL!

I totally saw GG last night and thought, "Who can I go tell that will actually care?" lol

The IRS lady was knitting on Jericho tonight too. I'm still not sure whether I really like the show, but I have a small crush on Skeet Ulrich. lol

I loved this episode--the knitathon ALMOST makes up for the crappy writing this season. I really wish Amy Sherman-Palladino would come back!! She would never have let Christopher and Lorelai elope :(

Every time I think I'm getting tired of this show, they do something that pulls me back in. I'm working my way through Season 6 on DVD now (no real-live network or cable t.v. in my home), so I suppose I'll catch the Knitathon episode sometime in 2008.

Speaking of knitting, do you have anything on the needles right now?

I caught that too. Loved to see knitting, but man they were awkward. Anyone who brings their yarn around in that way can't really knit, can they? I will be so annoyed if they break up L & C- I like them, leave them alone (obvioulsy, I'm alone in this)!

that's fantastic! i don't have tivo, and i missed that episode ... but, now i've seen here! thanks :)

I caught the end of that episode! I was wondering if they were actually knitting, but only having a 13" screen and not having Tivo I couldn't tell, so that's for that little tidbit of information.

Sorry, I missed that GG episode. My bf was playing a video game and I was (ironically) knitting. I would've kicked him off if I would've known that. I wanna go to a knitathon!

Speaking of knitting on TV, I happened to be watching Jericho last night(I usually don't but there was nothing else on) and this girl on there (long-haired brunette) was finishing up this guy's dead mother's unfinished knitting (she didn't know it at the time and felt bad later when she found out). Its pretty cool that they had knitting on there, but really, who finds unfinished knits and picks it up and tries to finish it. Thats okay, cuz she when found out what it was, the guy told her that his mom would've wanted her to do that, then warm, fuzzy happy TV moment. Kinda weird to me, but thumbs up for having knitting on there.

Re: cartoons knitting
It does upset me that cartoons knit wrong, but they're cartoons. I can't get too mad unless if its that northern quilted toilet paper commericial mentioned previously. But once, I saw an episode of the Simpsons where the family has to do an 1800s lifestyle reality show and Marge was knitting (needles up of course) and Lisa was spinning the yarn. I don't spin, but it looked fairly realistic. There was more than just a wheel and a wooden bar.

BTW, kudos, Crazy Aunt Purl. I'm a frequent visitor of the site and I absolutely love it!

I totally try to rewind radio... like when I zone out during the traffic report!

I am a dork too!... I have the complete Monty Python TV episodes on DVD and I have rewound to look at scenes that involve knitting to see if they really knit. In the Blancmange episode, Terry Jones is as usual playing an old woman, and I'm pretty sure he's really knitting. Not fast, but real knitting. There's another episode where most of the guys are playing typical English housewives... on a submarine... but anyway they are knitting. It's pretty brief so I didn't take an exact census or anything, but most of them are just waggling their needles around and not actually knitting.

The Sarah Plain and Tall TV movies were filmed near where my mom lived and she got paid actual money for knitting props for the third movie. She made two partial sweater sleeves, one shorter and one longer so that they could show the longer one in a later scene to show the passing of time by how much had been knitted or something like that. I don't know if the actress really knitted or just faked it, but at least the amount of progress was reasonably realistic.

OMG, that's awesome. Another reason why I need to watch television!

I had stopped recording GG after I had watched the first couple of shows and Lorelai and Christopher had gotten insipid and boring. But then I was looking at the the guide and seeing what last week's episode was about and when I saw that it was a KNITTING GG, I reinstated my DVR season pass again. Because I am a knitting DORK! Plus, it looks like Lorelai and Chris start to have problems and I REALLY want to see Luke and Lorelai get back together. Ha. Luke and Laura, Luke and Lorelai. Think they did that on purpose?

And did you ever notice how Morticia Adams knitted? I was always fascinated by it and recently realized it's the British "pen-hold" manner where the needles are held like pens- it's in the Mary Thomas book. And WWLGKnit?

I used to watch that show all the time! Is it still good? I loved the first few seasons. I can't watch it now because I don't actually have TV, but I could rent it on Netflix...

Sounds like a good idea for the Christmas Knitathon I'll be doing on my own.

All well and good, but CAP still has not answered the $64,000 question: Still receiving mail at your last listed PO box??? Some of us would like to send a small token of affection for this holiday season to you, and perhaps a "please don't hurt us" tribute to the Great Sobakowa :-)

I showed a scarf I'm knitting to our administrative assistant yesterday and she asked me if I watched Gilmore Girls. I thought "what the heck does that have to do with knitting?" Now I know.

I am always doing that rewind thing on my car radio. Why doesn't life have a TIVO remote? While I liked the fact that there was knitting on tv and of course, that Loralei was doing it, I wondered about the fact that she had a swift and I had never seen her knit before...I always think too much.

http://www.jedwardkeyes.com/2006/11/gilmore-all-caps-recap-0709.html

Argh, I can't believe I missed that episode. My Tivo was having a fight with my cable and told me there was no signal for 60 mins. instead of any actual part of the episode. Glad to see I'm not the only one wondering WWLGD.

In case anyone is still wondering about the Knit or Go Home shirt, the shirt that Lorelai was wearing is a design originally made by Leah of Craftster.org and available for sale at her shop Magpie, or in the Craftster.org Cafepress store. The show used Leah's design without permission or credit and added text. Knock-off shirts have sprung up on Cafepress and been removed because of copyright violations, so if you've been having trouble getting one, that's why. Currently, Leah's original design is available without text if you liked the shirt well enough, but there's talk of her developing a way to add whatever text you want. Support your fellow crafters and don't buy copyright infringing works! :D

I don't *get* all you knittin' chicks, not one bit.

But Laurie I HEART your blog! I don't gush about people's blogs alot because well, I'm snobby about them. Most of them suck.

Yours rocks! Keep makin' me laugh :)

I am so with you! I love Gilmore Girls. I was running around the house telling my husband and son that they are going to be knitting on Gilmore Girls. Can you believe that the man actually rolled his eyes at me??? His Eyes At Me????? Who's the crazy one here? LOL

I was just going to post about the Monty Python Blancmange episode but I see someone has beat me to it! Yes, Terry Jones is really knitting!