It is fair to say that I have been struck dumb ….. by ebay and the world I live in…
It is a sad tale, which I will do my best to relate..but suspect that it might lose some of its meaning to those who aren’t addicted to things fibre. If I just say – driven by addiction to purchase something I don’t really need – this might help others relate.
At the last Get Knitted Knatter, I spotted a stitch counter that exceeded and excelled in superiority and ingenuity, that currently residing in my sock bag. I cast covetous eyes upon it, gently plucking up enough courage to fondle it and making enquiries of the owner as to where she had located it.
Ebay was the response, and that they are often on there. I admired it some more, wrote down identifying information and then reluctantly, but firmly returned it to the place in the owner’s pattern – resolute in my determination to locate one.
I went home and typed in Vintage Knitting as bidden…. only to my horror and disappointment to discover there were 1,900 entries in that section, most of which – as I scrolled down the page – I either owned, or remembered seeing in shops, when shops sold haberdashery in the not so distant past.
In fact, on further investigation I discovered I owned older knickers than some of the entries.
I lost heart, typed in some other variations of vintage – in fact many variations, to discover that bags very similar to ones I currently own are actually classed as “Retro” !! I now feel very old. So what is the difference between vintage and retro? and how do you define when something becomes eligible for description as vintage? Some of the knitting I currently have on my needles could fall under this latter description..
So – enough, I was wasting good knitting time with this aimless surfing – I typed in Point Guards – and there – as if by magic, was the object of my hunt – a stitch counter proudly paired with a darning mushroom. Point Guard? Ah well….
It isn’t in quite such good condition as the example I first met, but it has obviously been well used and I love it just as much for that…
