Famous Knitters - Dakota Fanning
Need motivation for your pre-teens to learn how to knit? Just tell them Dakota Fanning does it!
I came across an interview with Dakota Fanning where she talks about knitting on the set. This is the bit about knitting:
Were you invited to the wedding? [Of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes]
I wasn’t but I sent a present. I’ve knitted Tom a scarf before.
Are you a good knitter?
I’m good but I’m so bad about actually knitting them. If I’m on a movie, I will knit for everyone on set but then I barely do it at home, so I have to get better at knitting things for my family. The only one in my family who has a scarf is my grandmother, so I have to make sure I make one for my mum, dad and sister.
Don’t they give you a hard time about the fact that Tom has one and they don’t?
Yes. My sister gets really mad at me. I started knitting her one and made the mistake of telling her, so now she just hangs over me all the time saying: ‘You’re not knitting my scarf!’ So when I’m just sitting there being lazy, she’ll bring it over and say: ‘Start!’
So you won’t be having your own scarf line any time soon?
Well, I could if I got in the zone. I knitted one in a day before.
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