Thursday, March 25, 2010

The Midnight Knitters vs. the Quilting Vigilantes


In today's Thursday News of the Absurd Will Someone Please Write This Book Inspirational Moment (TNoftheAWSPWTBIM), I turn yarn-loving samaritans into a gang of hooligans.

From Richard Degener at press ofAtlanticCity.com:

A good yarn? West Cape May tries to unravel the mystery of the midnight knitter

Apparently, someone was going around West Cape May in the wee hours of the night decorating signposts and tree trunks with elaborately knit leg warmers. In the latest developments, an anonymous group known as Salty Knits took credit. But now the knit cozies have disappeared.

Everyone assumed the anonymous knitters were trying to beautify the city. But what if they weren't? What if the bad guys were a group of salty knitters bent on the destruction of life as they know it in Cape May?

The question is how. How will dressing trees and signs up in silly sweaters doom everyone? What can the rival gang of do-good, mystery-solving quilters do to stop them?

Most importantly, who will write me this book?

4 comments:

cath c said...

ha! i am passing this on to my knitting and quilting friends!

Anonymous said...

What an interesting mystery. Thanks for sharing.

Heather Kelly said...

That is so cool! My mother lives in Cape May, but she has missed this while visiting my brother in Hawaii. What fun! And I love that they are keeping the mystery alive. Suddenly, the tree warmers are gone, in the dark of the night!

Anonymous said...

And people say NJ isn't a cool place to live!