So many of them treated the knitting patterns being openly circulated for download as a smokescreen. "You're telling me that hundreds of thousands of people just sat down and did this for themselves? They just made the hats themselves, like... like a person making a meme?"

did they notice that while the hats were similar, they didn't, for the most part... match? or show other signs of mass manufacture?

Women who do fiber arts in the present are powerful. if I am focused and have a good show to watch I can turn out a plan hat in an hour. We don't have to knit, but something in our soul needs to connect with our foremothers.

Knitting is simultaneously an incredibly simple, easily dismissed hobby that any basic bitch can learn, and a mysterious, arcane craft that only Radical Witches can practice.