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2026-05-06 13:24 UTC
@Paws2Spindle@sunny.garden it's the name of the Omni-Garment from The Lorax by Dr. Seuss: a knitted scarf/top/dress/coat/carpet/towel/etc knitted from the fiber of endangered slow-growing truffula trees. "Everyone needs a Thneed!"
Thneeds (things you need) are delightfully ambiguous in that they seemed to have a place for one's head and the rest is just draping and imagination... So I started calling the allegro "shawl with a waistband" that can also be a capelet, hood, shrug, toga, etc... a thneed.
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@epilonious@toot.lgbt 2026-05-06 13:27
@Paws2Spindle@sunny.garden to answer your original question (sorry, I got distracted). I started calling it a thneed within my knitting group (because of it's versatility) shortly after I saw it and fell in love with it and decided to make it my personality for the next several years.