I was casually reading the new issue of Country Living, as one does of a morning, and was looking over the photographs with this article on entertaining and thinking, "Ah, Project Spectrum pinks!" when I gasped aloud.
Knitting needles as drink mixers. Let's look at that again, shall we? Knitting needles to stir your drinks. Not just any knitting needles, either, not the cheap Clover ones, but those tall ones are nice Brittany Birches.
Curtain ring clips for placecard holders, I can see. A linen scarf for a table runner, that could be pretty. But I am not going to stir my Rosé Spritzer with a wooden knitting needle. Admittedly, I come from the no-liquids-of-any-kind-on-the-wooden-furniture kind of family, but this takes the whole "repurposing" thing a little too far.
Now, putting a few pairs of exceptionally beautiful wooden knitting needles in a pale pink glass for a centerpiece, that I might do!
They certainly were reaching for new ideas for that article! I don't even think I could sand the tips of my wooden needles as so many lace knitters do. It just seems so ... wrong!
Posted by: Janet | April 01, 2006 at 09:00 AM
Knitting needles in the lemonade? Surely an April Fool.
Posted by: jpknits | April 01, 2006 at 04:01 PM
If the shorter needle is one of the discontinued walnut needles, they are going for "gasp" $65 a pair on ebay.
Posted by: Pam | April 02, 2006 at 03:00 AM