The moment when

In search of blog fodder today, I checked out the NaBloPoMo writing prompts. The one for November 16 caught my eye: “What is the moment that you leave childhood and enter adulthood?” (Some say it’s when you buy a vacuum cleaner.)

This is a knitting blog, though, so let’s turn the question around: “What is the moment you know you’ve become a knitter?”

I figure it’s when you see a sweater or a hat or some such – while standing in a checkout line, or watching TV, or whatever – and think to yourself, “I could knit that.” Bonus points for mentally tallying how you’d tweak the design: “Oh, but I’d lengthen the sleeves, and pick a couple colors more similar to each other for a subtler effect, and …”

What do you figure marks the point of becoming a knitter?

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