Cute rodents that amusingly clean their faces and diligently stuff their cheek pouches are related not only to the natural world! This is also what people who are passionate about knitting are called.
INTERESTING! Sometimes knitters are compared to spiders, which is not entirely correct: the name of the arthropods was given not by a knitter, but by a weaver. Arachne, the heroine of the Greek myth, managed to reweave the goddess-artisan Athena herself. And the angry Pallas turned her into a nasty creature, always busy weaving a web.
What do a hamster and a knitter have in common?
Thriftiness is a common trait between a rodent and a knitting craftswoman. Let's observe an animal living in a cage: everything that falls into its tenacious paws is dragged into the nest! These are not necessarily food supplies: the animal “hamsters” (drags away) indiscriminately toys from Kinder surprises, ribbons, pieces of rags. When creating food bins, he knows no limits, carrying away in his swollen cheeks much more than is required.
It’s the same with experienced craftswomen: their reserves of materials for creativity always exceed the limit required. They are able to spend their last money on one more skein of the yarn they like. Then they will tie so much of it that it will look like the same hamster’s nest!
Sometimes their creative searches come to a dead end due to an oversaturation of ideas. Endlessly buying magazines for knitters and collecting life hacks on the Internet, they no longer know which project to grab onto. Fortunately, escaping from this state, they again grab the knitting needles - for them it is something like meditation.
In general, a hamster in the world of needlework is a person who devotes all his free time to using knitting needles (crochet), collecting patterns on forums and buying new yarn.
What types of knitting hamsters are there?
Based on observations on knitting forums, “experts” have created a whole classification of needlewomen from the hamster family. Belonging to one or another class is determined by the severity of the homya syndromeka. This is the name for the desire to systematize your purchases (materials, tools, knitting patterns) by topic, manufacturer and other sections.
Are already at risk beginners, looking at the form in search of diagrams. Most likely, they will later turn into true hamsters and belong to one of the varieties.
Nobles
They have all their knitting supplies arranged in many boxes and chests, baskets and caskets, forming the backbone of their home interior.
Insolent
They spend all their free money, including their better half’s nest egg, on knitting supplies.
Nervous
They react very sharply when problems arise when downloading schematics.
"Vacuum cleaners"
They take everything without giving anything: They steal other people’s schemes and don’t share their own.
The description of all categories of hamsters suggests question: are they healthy??
IMPORTANT! Psychologists have long noticed that knitting calms and helps cope with stress, disconnecting a person from the flow of information.
But Is it worth immersing yourself in this infectious handicraft?, endlessly disappearing on forums of knitting hamsters?
What is a hamster?
Excessive dependence on knitting was jokingly nicknamed the hamster. The “sick” person always lacks new ideas and patterns for knitting (although the previously collected ones have not yet been implemented); he wants to buy new yarn, which there is nowhere to put. And on the bookshelves there is no room left for any other literature except knitting manuals.
As a result, the process itself often turns out to be an afterthought.
How to be treated for hamsterosis
Experienced “infected”, realizing that the situation was becoming dangerous, developed a set of rules to ensure a long and happy life in the world of knitting hamsters. All advice boils down to a single principle - periodically shake up your supplies.
- Instead of running for a new skein, rummage through the one you bought earlier. You will probably remember the idea for the sake of which the purchase was made. Realize it and experience the pleasure of a closed project!
- Do you still need to go to the store? Buy exactly what you need for a specific item, resisting the temptation to grab something for future use.
ADVICE! If you really want to, buy not threads, but tools: new knitting needles, various convenient devices. The knitting process will be more fun!
- Don’t pick up new schemes from the Internet without understanding the old ones. Before buying a book or magazine, scroll through the contents: maybe there is nothing new for you?
As you know, the hamster’s cage is cleaned by its owners, throwing out everything the pet has hidden.No one will do this for the knitting hamster. All that remains is to show your imagination, internally dividing into “rodent” and “master”. And let the “master” deal with the “pet”, just as the “inner parent” deals with the “inner child”.
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