Whenever you’re sad
just remember
Steve learned how to juggle from Clint
kath-ballantyne’s Nan can juggle oranges, one-handed, against the wall. When asked why, she just shrugs and says, “It was the War.”
I talked about it to an Australian lady who was in England during the War (she stopped to admire my knitting a few weeks back) and she shrugged and said, “Yeah, I did that too.”
So, during the War, it was generally normal behaviour to knit and to teach yourself to juggle when in bomb shelters.
I very rarely take selfies, but today I felt a mighty need. Sam, this one’s for you. :DDDD
copperbadge replied to your photo: GOD DAMMIT
I’d like to add that I’m really warm, comfortable, and my arms are free of lots of layers so crafting is easy. Also, it cost me like $4 at a charity shop. AFFORDABLE AND PRACTICAL.
I made another reference sheet because I’m just tired of digging up standard sizing for stuff. No more searching for the frequent made stuff. You can get the pdf here. http://www.stringtoathing.com/printables.html
okay no but knitting headcanons are so important.
like, who follows patterns to the letter and who tries to follow but ends up kind of making their own pattern and who says fuck it and throws the pattern out the window and tries to figure it out for themselves
and who likes using circular needles over double pointed needles and stubborn ones who refuse to use anything but straight needles
who are the stress knitters and who are the people who knit when they’re bored and who are the knitters who always have yarn in their bag
so important
Steve learns to knit from Fury, of all people, and in turn he teaches Tony, who teaches his robots and never bothers with it again. Steve keeps up with it, though, knitting because it’s comforting and it’s one of the few things that is actually pretty much the same between now and the forties (not that he knew how to knit then; he just never thought to learn). Whenever he goes and visits Peggy, he comes back and knits at least one full hat, nonstop.
Sam only knows garter stitch but he and Steve get together and learn more stitches together and look up Youtube videos and get into competitions. Sometimes Steve comes home to messages on his answering machine from Sam saying, “You should look up the so-and-so stitch. I’ve knitted two pairs of gloves with it already” and he leaves a message in return saying “What about the such-and-such stitch, it’s great for hats, you can do it on circular needles really easily” and so on and so forth. They complete about who can knit faster, too. They get really good at it.
Sam, in turn, teaches Bucky to knit. It happens kind of accidentally; he’s knitting a scarf when suddenly there’s Bucky, and Bucky’s just watching him, like, avidly. Watching how his hands move and self-consciously covering his metal hand until Sam sits down and shows him how to cast on and before you know it, Bucky’s got a scarf started. (It’s kind of a shitty scarf, all uneven and the tension’s wonky and there’s dropped stitches all over the place, but damn it, he made it with his own hands, and that has got to count for something.)
Next time Fury drops by, the three of them are all knitting and Fury’s like “What have I started.” Over the course of the next week he gets, like, four scarves and three hats, in mysterious packages delivered by Natasha, probably, although she denies involvement.
Some of them are kind of shitty. But he wears them anyway.
Only when Steve and Sam and Bucky aren’t around, though.
You know, I wonder if Steve might already know how to knit? Maybe from his time in the army (maybe someone was really good at knitting balaclavas or gloves and taught Steve)?
Natasha, at some point, reveals she crochets (learned from her grandmother at a very young age) and knits too. It’s a thing she does – a comforting action for her hands on those nights when she just can’t sleep. Clint taught her the knitting — it’s one of his crafts for passing the hours during long stakeouts. So when Steve finds Natasha awake, crafting in the very early hours of the morning because she can’t sleep, he understands, and joins her by getting his knitting out too.
I prefer the idea that Steve learned how to knit as a kid. He was a sick little boy during the Depression. Either his mom or Bucky’s had to knit new things out of old. He went from helping unravel old sweaters to asking how it worked because he couldn’t afford a ton of paper for drawing and “Hey, this is a thing you can do in bed”. And Steve got cold a lot.
It’s entirely possible that BUCKY remembers bits and pieces, too, for similar reasons – but he has to re-learn after being the Winter Soldier and stuff.
Both of them primarily do Useful Things because man, in war time there’s nothing – NOTHING – you appreciate like a warm pair of socks, but they’re branching out a little in the 21st century.
Natasha knits, but nobody really wants to ask her about it unless she brings it up first because. That’s silly because it’s just a hobby regardless of gender, but it’s just one of those side effects of being badass and scary. She does fancier stuff and it always looks awesome when it’s done. (Though that doesn’t mean she doesn’t swear creatively at the yarn in Russian and every other language she knows when she’s making it.) But she makes it look SO EASY.
Bruce finds it meditative.
I have more, but I’m tired and my battery is dying.
knitting in the dark 