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Keep Calm and Carry Yarn

Cory Doctorow at 9:35 pm Mon, Jan 25, 2010

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A fine newcomer to the field of remixes of the WWII British "KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON" posters, from Etsy seller jenniegee.

Keep Calm and Carry Yarn poster

Previously:
  • GET EXCITED AND MAKE THINGS: a "Keep calm and carry on ...
  • Keep Calm and Carry On: sage advice from a sane wartime government ...
  • "Get Excited and Make Things" shirt at Howies, Carnaby St. London ...

I write books. My latest is a YA science fiction novel called Homeland (it's the sequel to Little Brother). More books: Rapture of the Nerds (a novel, with Charlie Stross); With a Little Help (short stories); and The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (novella and nonfic). I speak all over the place and I tweet and tumble, too.

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  • Grey Devil

    Awesome, my girlfriend would love one. Not sure i’d want to pay 20 bucks for it though.

  • Thad E Ginataom

    Simply having yarn is a great help to keeping calm. Yarn in your pocket? What could possible go wrong?

    No yarn? then make sure that you can tell a good one. That will do just as well.

  • Kai Jones

    I always carry yarn in particularly fraught situations, like when traveling. In fact I make a point of exercising my right to knit when I fly. There’s something calming about a ball of yarn and part of a garment on a set of knitting needles, and me with my gray hair and general grandmotherly air.

  • ChibiR

    Pity. When I saw the title and picture, I was hoping that this’d be some MacGyver-ish book about the 1001 odd-but-awesome uses of yarn in everyday life.

  • Anonymous

    I’m a little disappointed; I thought it said “Carry Yam,” which is mysterious and alluring.

  • Anonymous

    I wish it came on a t-shirt!

  • belgium

    Surely ‘Keep Yarn and Carry On’ would have been more phonetically pleasing and consistent, whilst conveying the same message?

  • CheshireKitty

    Brilliant!
    I find it helps a lot when my husband’s driving too fast.