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Sweater curse (en.m.wikipedia.org)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/knitting

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Is this actually a widespread thing? I'd never heard of it (sorry if this doesn'tfit the sub)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's totally a thing! I never believed in it until I started a huge blanket in celebration of our anniversary but never got to finish it.

Haven't heard of it outside of the internet tbh. Also, I feel like it's more a running gag than an actual belief. We can probably all agree that a breakup happening every 100 sweaters or so is not exactly a curse.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

I first heard of the sweater curse more than 30 years ago.

It’s been a thing in knitting circles for generations as far as I can tell.