Knit one, purl two
When I’m taking a break from being a fledgling linguist, I dabble in far too many hobbies, including knitting. I just ran across one of the most unique knitting patterns I’ve seen in quite a while: a knitted inuksuk! An inuksuk (pl. inuksuit) is a stone marker used by various Inuit people in Canada. They’re not a common symbol in Alaska (where I do my work), but anyway, I thought it was a creative way to incorporate an important aspect of an indigenous culture into another artform with centuries of tradition.
This post brought to you by the word qiḷaun ‘knitting needle’ (Iñupiaq) and the phoneme [ʁ].
