The Study Skills Programme
Paragraph 3 The image of a knitter as an older woman sitting in a comfortable , old-fashioned living room with a basket of yarn at her feet and a bun in her hair is one of the past . As knitting continues to become more popular and increasingly trendy , it is much more difficult to describe the average knitter . Knitters today might be 18 , 28 , 40 or 65 . They might live in a big urban centre and take classes in a knitting shop that doubles as a café or they may gather in suburban coffee shops to support one another in knitting and other aspects of life . They could be college roommates knitting in their dorm room or two senior citizens knitting in a church hall . Even men are getting in on the act . It would be incredibly difficult to come up with an accurate profile of a contemporary knitter to replace that image of the old woman with the basket of yarn !
This paragraph best supports the statement that a . People are returning to knitting in an attempt to reconnect with simpler times . b . Knitting is now more of a group activity , as opposed to an individual hobby . c . Creating an accurate profile of a particular type of person depends on the people in the group having traits and characteristics in common . d . Today ’ s knitters are much less accomplished than knitters of the past . e . Young people are returning to knitting in record numbers .
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