Need a sweater made of mint dental floss? Old telephone cords? Wads of gum? The Prince of Needles will be happy to make you one, and very proudly call it couture. And charge you four hundred dollars for it.
For the Prince of Needles, knitting is about doing what hasn’t been done before – as long as it’s himself who is doing it, and even more importantly, getting the credit for it. Quality, practicality – that’s for drones! And if at the end of the Craft Fair, all of the Prince of Needles’ items still remain unbought (even though he had the special tags made, with his “logo” sewn into each of them, so people would know they were authentic and not some knock-off) –- it’s merely because the masses are too bovine and blind to see what a pioneer they have in their midst. Because the only reason someone wouldn’t wear a poorly knitted leghorn hat constructed entirely from sandwich bags is because they don’t have the class to carry it off.
Right? Or are you just too jealous to admit that?
The Prince of Needles (be he male or female) may just be knitting on a brief stop before his next chosen medium of expression. He is “creative” to a fault and perhaps overestimates his trendsetting abilities. Tempered with skill and thought, some of his ideas might play out nicely, but it’s not likely that the Prince of Needles will have the follow-through to make that happen. He will be on to the next groundbreaking installment of his legendary body of work before the first one has seen the outside of his closet.