Here’s a question. We have schools of fish, flocks of birds, gaggles of geese, prides of lions, packs of wolves, etc. So what would we call a group of knitters? Here are a few things my knitting group and I have come up with:
a skein of knitters
a fleece of knitters
a tangle of knitters
a sweater quantity of knitters. This one needs a bit of explanation. You can almost never make a sweater out of one skein of anything. So you could say, “Are we talking about a Miss Babs sweater quantity?” (Those skeins have 560 yards, so two can easily make a sweater.) “Or are we talking about a Louisa Harding sweater quantity?” (I’ve seen patterns that call for upwards of 25 balls.) (No offense to Louisa Harding–I adore her patterns.)