Norwegian TV Station to Air Five Straight Hours of Competitive Knitting
Norwegian TV Station to Air Five Straight Hours of Competitive Knitting
Ah, Norway! Land of my people! A Norwegian television station has announced that they plan to broadcast the world knitting record for the fastest time from "sheep to actual finished sweater"--earmarking a full five contiguous hours for the purpose. That's five hours of shearing, spinning, and knitting (plus four hours of fleece-themed knitting pre-show). On TV.*sheds tear* My country!
...so it's a knitting Triathlon?
This is actually really awesome! For people who like string, anyway. I've always wanted to see one of these.
Reblogging for MeMum.
Also inB4: it’s not string, it’s yarn. String is coarse and stiff and not pleasant to wear (yes, I count twine as ‘string’). Yarn can be made of acrylic or wool (or, for that matter, just about any fuzz that comes off a mammal, and some fuzzes that come from plants). And if you call acrylic yarn “wool” around MeMum, you deserve everything you get.
[This has been a public service reblogging to stop MeMum phoning me to lecture me for hours on the difference between string and yarn]