Monday, March 15, 2010

"Syjunta" - A Swedish fenomena?

Free translation from the Swedish Wikipedia:
A group, usually women, that meets to sew, crochet, knit, or embroider, and to socialize. 'Syjunta' is not a formal organisation but rather a group of friends that meet every now and then, usually at each other's homes.

In English it would probably be called a 'sewing bee'. I haven't found a lot of online information about the activity* so I assume that it's not so common. (Maybe I just don't know how to find it?)

In Hebrew, they don't even know what I'm talking about.

So, for all of us that have sweaters with just half an arm left to knit laying around for three years, or a pair of nice pants that only need to be shortened for the last few months - Welcome to my Syjunta! (for both sexes)

(While I was writing this, my head was busy trying to figure out how to write 'syjunta' in phonetic script. Still haven't figured that one out.)

* There are knitting circles but that's only part of the game ;-)