Breaking news.....

Dateline: North American continent, 22 May 2008A.D.

This just in. An ancient form of handwork known as Knitting was re-discovered recently by this reporter, and scientists have only now discovered its hidden secret.

Knitting is Borg.

Resistance is futile.

Oh you can try to fight it, you can say you aren't going to fall under its spell. You can say you are only going to knit some baby gifts or learn how to do socks, but you will fall under its spell and pretty soon you will share the feelings of a commenter.

After reading the backwards knitting blog item, she says " I may just have to check out the videos... because god knows, I need another technique to suck up my time..."

(She should know. She knits with beads. Just scroll down a few posts, you'll see what I mean. She does some serious knitting with beads. Can't seem to help herself)

Only this morning, I was contemplating this very thing. Have you checked out the new Interweave Knits? The entire issue is filled with variations of colour work. See the Tidewater Wrap?

If you are feeling particularly strong, you go right ahead and click on the link to its details. For heavens sake, whatever you do, don't click on the 'Bonus Photos' (you have to like a magazine that includes bonus photos). Don't for a moment consider how lovely the inside of the shawl looks (which was the first thing I wondered about when I was salivating over the magazine photos). Don't even stop to consider how cozy it looks for those days when the ocean breezes might be a little too chilly for a lacy wrap. You know perfectly well you live in the middle of the continent and its going to be a little while till you see any ocean, much less feel ocean breezes. No, no, you go ahead and pretend you are never going to make this shawl, you are never going to snuggle in its cozy colour work.

No, you go right on and keep pretending that you are immune from colour work, and stranding. You go right ahead and pretend that the colour work mitts (down to the bottom of River City's March Newsletter , the Gotland Island Mitt cuff) on the counter at the yarn store have not been talking to you when no one was looking. You go right ahead and pretend you did not peek inside Folk Knitting in Estonia (available at River City Yarns), and see the most lovely colour work of all. You go right ahead and don't even think about the yarns in your stash that are just begging to be used for colour work. You are a strong woman. You can get past this, right?

Resistance is futile. Knitting is Borg.