Knitting is in fashion

So, d’you think this new-fangled* knitting malarkey will catch on?

Actually, I fear that we’re becoming trendy. This makes me a little nervous, because anything that is currently trendy will, perforce, soon be deeply untrendy.

Take today, for example. I had to pop out in the car to a nearby town. On the way, I passed this bus stop:-

Then I stopped for petrol. It seems that Cadbury has gone all knitted for Christmas. Obviously I had to buy the following items so that I could photograph them properly for this blog:-

Look how neat that stockinette is!

Then I saw this:-

Look! Fair isle! (Well sort of – it would be if there weren’t such enormous gaps between the snowflakes.) As a stranded knitter, this made my heart sing. I could knit chocolate!

And today was my wedding anniversary: look at the card that the stoic spouse gave me:-

And finally, I bought some Christmas cards:-

Back home with my chocolates and cards, I had to sample the chocolate – purely in the interests of research, you understand:-

And the conclusion of all this rigorous research? I fear we might be getting a bit too trendy.

*I hope you realize that this phrase was written with tongue very firmly inserted in cheek.