Did I Hear Yarnoff?

I turned her out! My BFF has been hooking every day since she came for her lesson on Saturday. She’s crocheting and she’s loving it. I made sure she left well equipped with some yarn, a set of hooks, and The Happy Hooker.

We also just found out our other friend is a …. (shhhh don’t say the word out loud)… knitter. She’s just started to learn the k word.

I think we need a Yarnoff!. Hooks vs needles. May the best scarf win!

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Not THAT Kind of Hooker… moron

This weekend, I read the funniest story on Ravelry.com (THE knitting and crochet social website in case you didn’t know). A woman was crocheting in a restaurant reading a pattern from a book when the waitress told her they were getting complaints about what she was reading and they “don’t allow that kind of reading material in our establishment”. A customer then yelled at her, “People like YOU shouldn’t have children, its disgusting!” She was reading the pattern from the book Stitch and Bitch: The Happy Hooker.

Since then, some have proposed a Hooker Day be established where crocheters everywhere go out into public yarn, hook, and questionably titled pattern book in hand to show the world that we are free to hook wherever we want.

It just so happens that I bought The Happy Hooker last weekend and left it on the table the other day. My husband saw it and started to question me about it. I guess he thought it was a porno crochet book that I had left lying around for our 4 year old to peruse. Hide the book! Don’t let him see the bunny slippers pattern!

That made the woman’s restaurant encounter just that much funnier.

Inspired by one woman’s hysterical public display of crochet and an attempt to confuse my husband, I have named this blog Hookers Don’t Bite. No, I’m not THAT kind of hooker… moron.