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Knitters believe a hand-made sweater can end your relationship

Ellsworth Toohey
Jul 20, 2026
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Knitters call it the sweater curse: knit a sweater for a significant other and they’ll break up with you — in one version, before the sweater is even finished. In a 2005 poll, 15% of active knitters said they’d experienced the curse firsthand, and another 41% considered it a possibility to be taken seri…

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