With my birthday and Mother’s Day coming up, the family have been asking me what I would like, gift-wise. And perhaps that is what fueled my brilliant idea for something that doesn’t exist yet.
A KnitBit.
You know, like a FitBit but for knitting. It would have row-counting capabilities, of course. A timer. A calculator. And all sorts of programming to figure out how many stitches per minute or ounces of wool per hour you are knitting — and all that kind of thing. You could figure in cables and lacework for ratios of some sort. And fiber content. And there could be alerts reminding you to buy yarn. And you could hook up with other knitters to compare your speed and ratios and such with theirs. And you could send emoticons back and forth — happy yarn ball faces and puffy sheep and wacky angsty yarn ball faces too. There would be little cheerful alarms that ding to remind you to knit.
Brilliant!
It would be a cool tech-y bracelet thing, of course. And, best of all, when you were knitting and someone in the household gave you a “look” because dinner needed to be cooked or the kitchen was a disaster or the children were running feral, you could just point to your cool tech-y bracelet thing and shrug and say “I haven’t met my daily goal yet.” Completely legit.
In fact and truth be told, all I really need is a legitimate-looking tech-y bracelet thing — it would not need to do any of those things I listed above (okay, maybe the row counter feature would be useful). It could just be there on my wrist looking like a serious piece of knitterly tech equipment so when someone gave me that “look” I could tap on it and say “Gotta reach my target numbers for today or I’m not gonna meet my weekly goal.”
Brilliant.