What The Net Did

What has been the internet’s main influence on your life?

I’m not sure there’s a bit of my life the internet hasn’t had an influence on.

It helped me grow my teeny tiny knitting group, Stitch London, from three people to just over 8000 members that is the radioactive woolly Godzilla I run for a living today. It means that every project that starts as one tiny stitch takes over the world from our cancer-beating London Lion Scarf to our Stitch Yourself project for the Science Museum.

It helped me find support and medical terms that baffled me when I fought and beat cancer.

It was where I hid and where I found the weird internet (now real life) friends who shoved me back together when my life imploded two years ago.

It’s made me (or rather helped me make myself), a self-published writer (who now gets asked to write books) who writes on travel and craft and is read daily by who knows who, an unexpected Godfather (Godmother sounds rubbish) of the knitting world, and a sneaky graffiti artist whose work pops up around the world while I stay here in London.

It was where I found my very lovely crazed sheep-sketching boyfriend.  Hooray for the internet. :)


If it has been positive, have there been any negative aspects?

Not one. Well maybe my media whoring has got a little out of control…

If the internet was a person and you met them in a pub, what would you say to them?  

“You look shorter in real life but I like your hat.”

What The Net Did: a photography project by Laura Babb - www.laurababb.co.uk