The Craziest, Most Intense Sport You’ve Never Heard of: Competitive Knitting
Every year around this time, knitters start googling “When is March Madness?” not because we care about basketball (it is for basketball, right?) but because we’re trying to gauge how much time we have left for yarn shopping before the biggest, most competitive, most carpal-tunnel-inducing event in the crafting world.
Every March through June, thousands of fiber artists around the world take on the challenge of knitting as much as they can, as fast as they can.
Doping is permitted (and actually encouraged in the form of stroopwafels, caffeine, or wine) and our sports equipment is cozier than most. But our referees are just as eagle-eyed and the rules just as strict as in any other sport.
Is speed knitting actually a sport? Eh, probably not, but it is a competition that some of us take very, very seriously.
It goes a little something like this.
If you’re envisioning a circle of half a dozen gray-haired grannies casually knitting simple…
