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"You get something out of it in the end. You get a nice present. For someone who wants an oddly shaped, off-putting scarf." Box office hunk Ryan Gosling learned how to knit while filming a scene with a roomful of old ladies in Lars and the Real Girl . He described it as one of the most relaxing days of his life. With that in mind, I set off on a week of knitting with the intention of making my own oddly shaped, off-putting scarf. Spoiler alert: I never finished the scarf. The learning curve turned out to be a little steep for yours truly and his clumsy man hands, and it wasn't until Day 5 that I started to feel comfortable with knitting. I pulled apart countless attempts and only had a 6-inch section done by the time it was pencils-up at the end of the week. Oh well. But why knitting in the first place? For one thing, I had always admired Montreal Canadiens goaltender Jacques Plante who, besides being perhaps the greatest goalie in hockey history, was nutty about...