Amy Tan Meets Steel Magnolias
Did you hear about this? There's going to be a movie coming out next year about a group of women who get together every week to knit and share stories about their lives!! It's a runaway blockbuster, right?? So, who should star in such a sure-fire Oscar nod?? That's right - Julia Roberts!! I mean, don't all knitters look like Julia Roberts (knitters ass aside.)
Based on a soon-to-be published novel with the same name, The Friday Night Knitter's Club, centers around a Manhattan yarn shop owner and single mom with a zany teenage daughter. I hear that tragedy strikes and the women find out that they all can get through it - together - one stitch at a time.
I bet there won't be a dry sock in the house. Gee - I can't believe one of us didn't think of this.
Ok. Wait.
What about the story of a young crocheter - a hooker, actually, who gets hired for the weekend by a handsome Lion Brand Salesman to make him an afghan? 
What about Erin Berroccovitch - the story of an legal assistant who brings down a yarn company for adding acrylic fiber to their organic wool?
I'll think of something...just you wait...
Some of you probably remember that Darryl Hannah made a big splash back in 2003 in Vogue Knitting. [ok - is it weird that I still have my copy ? Does anyone else save all their magazines? ] At the time she was making scarves, hoping to graduate to bigger and better things. So, yesterday, she had to be physically removed by police from a walnut tree in a community garden in LA protesting against its demolition to make room for a warehouse. The reports say she guarded the tree for 23 days - most of it spent 40 feet up in its branches. Now, this is surely only something a knitter could and would do. Give me a good cause and a place to sit, a pair of sticks and a ball of yarn and just try and make me move!
