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Being able to knit and/or crochet is a useful skill to have whether you are in a survival situation or not. Plus, this isn’t just for your (great)grandmother anymore!
My mother taught me to crochet when I was a kid. I wasn’t very good at it simply because I never counted my stitches and my project would end up looking like a triangle shape because of that.
After graduating from school, I taught myself to knit. I think I prefer knitting to crocheting.
What’s the difference between knitting and crocheting?
The way I describe it is:
- Knitting is like driving a manual/stick shift vehicle
- Crocheting is like driving an automatic vehicle
Why do I prefer knitting?
For one, and I know it’s silly, but I love the clicking sound of the needles.
Second, since I don’t count my stitches, it provides me a way to count them, because they are on the sticks.
It’s a nice form of stress relief for me and it makes me feel like I am doing something productive while I watch TV or a movie.
It makes me think of Autumn and Winter, which are my two favorite seasons that I barely get to experience living in Florida.
It’s a great home-made gift for those that actually do live where there are seasons; or they can be made for homeless shelters or newborn baby hospital programs.
When you are in any kind of survival situation, the normal methods of everyday operations aren’t necessarily going to be available – monetary institutions included. We learn or re-learn these lessons when there are hurricanes that cause power outages for days, weeks, or longer; we learned (hopefully) some of this during the great global lockdown in early 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic. If you didn’t see my blogs on those topics, click here for more information on natural disasters and click here and click here for things I learned during the Covid-19 Lockdown.
Due to these new ways of daily operation, a barter system will likely become the normal method of transactions in addition to going out and scavenging for supplies.
If you can knit and/or crochet, it can be considered a useful skill, as it can help create items to keep warm for those in colder climates, bags and other useful items can be made, including nets for fishing or hunting potentially.
There are many patterns you can get online. However, if I find a pattern I really like, I will print it out and store it with my supplies so that in the event of a power and/or internet failure, I still have that information available to me. The patterns may be able to be memorized if you do them enough, but I haven’t gotten to that point yet.
There are many skills that have value in a SHTF scenario. However, it seems that in the world now, knitting and crocheting isn’t very popular or well known (at least from what I have seen in my area). This skill will certainly be valuable if you are in a SHTF situation where it gets very cold and snows during the winter. (**BONUS** – knitting and crocheting keeps your hands and fingers moving, keeping you warm and agile in the cold).
For my personal preparations, I try to be prepared for the worst case scenario I can currently consider. This situation is essentially one in which current conveniences – like internet, phones, computers, power, indoor plumbing – will no longer be available. Therefore, I try to use the “guise” of hobbies to prepare for such a potential scenario, whether it is temporary or permanent.
There are a great many different skills one can learn that would be useful in such a scenario. By learning them, you can be of greater use to your survival group in a scenario and potentially be of value to a survival community, should one be available in your survival scenario. It is better to be prepared for such a scenario – whether it seems unlikely or not – than to be caught unprepared and unable to provide for yourself and your family, loved ones, or survival group. In such scenarios, all members need to be able to pull their weight for the survival of the whole group.
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