I have always liked knitting. I can only knit in straight lines and the most complicated stitch I can do is the purl, but still, I like knitting.
I have also long held the belief (since around Easter* anyway) that Swedes are well, just a little bit odd. Though of course, not odd in a bad way, there just seems to exist a little streak of crazy in the collective psyche that adds a little bit of joy to my day upon its observation.
So it seems quite logical then that the two match up quite nicely. I introduce to you Masquerade: Swedish guerilla knitting at its best.
*I refer here to the fantastic Påsk candy sale that occured at ICA Vast in the week before Easter: the price per kilo of Smågodis was drastically reduced and the Swedes went CRAZY.
Kristen and I thought a nuclear holocaust was about to start and they were preparing. I mean, words really can't describe it. The Swedes have this concept, "lagom", which is 'the middle way'. Not too much, just enough. Well let me tell you, I never thought I'd see a 55 year old Swedish man exercise lagom by plonking four kilograms of candy on the counter ahead of me. There were so many people packing their bags full that within minutes of being refilled,the barrels were emptying, and that wasn't even for the yummy ones. AND there were so many people that the little plastic candy shovels RAN OUT.
Aparently there's an Easter sale every year, but nobody told us this, so we just thought that when the sun first starts coming out again (as it had just started doing), people celebrate by stocking up. In a big frenzied way. And so, we thought they were crazy. End story of PÃ¥sk candy sale at ICA Vast.
I have also long held the belief (since around Easter* anyway) that Swedes are well, just a little bit odd. Though of course, not odd in a bad way, there just seems to exist a little streak of crazy in the collective psyche that adds a little bit of joy to my day upon its observation.
So it seems quite logical then that the two match up quite nicely. I introduce to you Masquerade: Swedish guerilla knitting at its best.
*I refer here to the fantastic Påsk candy sale that occured at ICA Vast in the week before Easter: the price per kilo of Smågodis was drastically reduced and the Swedes went CRAZY.
Kristen and I thought a nuclear holocaust was about to start and they were preparing. I mean, words really can't describe it. The Swedes have this concept, "lagom", which is 'the middle way'. Not too much, just enough. Well let me tell you, I never thought I'd see a 55 year old Swedish man exercise lagom by plonking four kilograms of candy on the counter ahead of me. There were so many people packing their bags full that within minutes of being refilled,the barrels were emptying, and that wasn't even for the yummy ones. AND there were so many people that the little plastic candy shovels RAN OUT.
Aparently there's an Easter sale every year, but nobody told us this, so we just thought that when the sun first starts coming out again (as it had just started doing), people celebrate by stocking up. In a big frenzied way. And so, we thought they were crazy. End story of PÃ¥sk candy sale at ICA Vast.