Jewish Knitting....

KNITTISHISMS
Meditations of a Jewish Knitter
KNITTISH FOR BEGINNERS
By Rebel Knitter
2007


I wrote this little thing called Knittishisms...
Actually, it is my Manifesto.

If ad agencies and corporate bureaucrats can subscribe to a company Manifesto, can't a poor shlep like me?

Here's an important bit on Kosher Knitting:


Kosher Knitting

In the words of one of my closest Jewish knitting friends, Beryl Tsang:

“Friends don’t let friends knit kippot on shabbes”.

Okay, so Beryl is Chinese, so, nu like this is a problem?

In Deuteronomy, Chapter 14, the clean and unclean beasts are named – it is from this which Kosher and Non-Kosher food is derived. But wool mixed with linen, oink, bunny and goat hair IS NOT what I define as the character of Trayf yarn. Trayf yarn is chaloshes yarn. It is that nasty, synthetic, non-novelty fibre so readily available in dollar stores and big box superstores. Essentially, it grosses you out when you touch it. Often, if you knit with it and drop a stitch, you will never see that stitch again.

Regrettably, most little girls, regardless of their ethnic orientation, really dig pink and purple trayf yarn.

Q: So, what to do?

A: Only knit trayf yarn with really cheap plastic or noisy aluminum needles – never bamboo or birch. Whereas my friends have their milk, meat and Passover dishes, I have bamboo, metal, good plastic and trayf plastic knitting needles. It seems only appropriate.

Q: If you keep a kosher knitting home, can you only knit trayf yarn outside the home? Perhaps at Beryl’s?

A: No. Beryl is Buddhist. She has moral objections to trayf yarn as well. Knitters must decide for themselves what makes them ethically centered with their faith and their yarn. Only from this can one make a relaxed choice as to how to live blissfully as a modern kosher knitter.

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This is just a little blurby of it... I will post more, including images, on a later post...