in the final scramble to finish my dissertation (which i’ve decided will be finished before i go to sleep tonight, leaving tomorrow to edit), i discovered the following my stack of papers. i’ve omitted the questions i actually ended up asking, which is why there are numbers missing.

POTENTIAL QUESTIONNAIRE QUESTIONS:
(from the ludicrious to the dissertation-worthy!)

1. Average age of knitters? Has it increased? Decreased?
2. Networks of “people teaching people?”
3. Boys who knit? Are there more than 4?
4. Online communities: useful or useless? (drawback: no knitting while typing!)
5. The whole knitting celebrity thing. Although I like Julia Roberts, I really don’t
care that she knits. (although it does make her cooler.)
6. Closure of wool mills in England? (despite overwhelmingly LARGE number of
sheep.) Why? What’s happening in America?
7. True or false: CROCHET SUCKS.
8. How do you afford it? When do you knit?
9. In public or private?
10. Are you obsessed?
11. Are you a feminist? (whether or not you’re female-identified)
12. Do you (secretly) think knitting makes you COOL? Ice cold..baby!
13. How do you justify your knitting to others?

BONUS QUESTION: (for which you will get no prize other than a “you rock!” confirmation from me) Do you know any knitting theory? Theory on knitting?

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those questions were originally scrawled in a notebook on the subway. some of them might have been more helpful than the ones i asked in the end, but they say hindsight is 20/20. some of them were obviously better cut.

24 hours and counting. whee!