If this is your first day at Knit Club, you must knit…

Well, it is *almost* my first day in knit club, but not quite. When I was younger my mother taught me the basics of knitting and I engaged in sporadic projects–a scarf here, a hat there, a half finished jumper or two–and now I have a wonderful mother in law who is helping me renew and build on that basic knowledge.

I confess to you my lack of knitting knowledge not because I seek to distance myself from the art, but rather to suggest that the pattern I am going to present here will be very easy. And also to let you know that I will be pretty much learning how to do it as I go along, so do feel free to add in any tips or suggestions in the comments as we go.

While I don’t necessarily have a lot in the way of finely honed knitting skills, I do have a lot of ideas and opinions on the subject of art vs craft, value given to traditional pastimes based and its relation to gender, and the personal creation as a political expression.

As an expression of those opinions I give you the project ‘one row purl, one row plain’ a blog based knit art project. Every day for the next 45 or so days I am going to post 10 rows of a scarf pattern I have created using the very cool knitpro web application. The scarf is designed to be in very basic stocking stitch (one row purl one row plain) and has two colours, a base colour and a contrasting colour that will be used in the pattern to form the text of a special message for all the crafty feminists that would like to join in this project.

The finished scarf will be aprox 450 rows long x 38 stitches wide. I will post images of my progress in the comments and encourage anyone else who you like to join me to do the same.

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