He'd mostly been humoring Master Splinter when he agreed to try knitting, but his first project, in all its lumpy misshapen glory, lit something of a fire in him - it didn't hurt that he'd used his new boxing gloves to beat Mikey's ass. And hey, kept his hands warm.
So he started looking for new patterns, got his hands on some cheap yarn, and kept knitting. The results weren't exactly 'open an online shop' quality, but he wasn't gonna keep them in the lair, so once a month or so he swung by and stuffed his latest creation in the 'help the homeless' donation box at the local library. He kind of half expected them to just disappear down the memory hole of society, but once, checking in on Angel, he saw a van trundle up outside her apartment block and a couple with a kid emerge and start unloading a couple of suitcases. The man was wearing a knit hat with a distinct pattern, hexagonal shapes like a turtle shell; the little kid was clutching a little knitted turtle plushie.
...guess he had a lifelong hobby, he realized, seeing that.
Of course, if his brothers ever found out he was gonna have to murder them.
TMNT 2k3, Raphael
So he started looking for new patterns, got his hands on some cheap yarn, and kept knitting. The results weren't exactly 'open an online shop' quality, but he wasn't gonna keep them in the lair, so once a month or so he swung by and stuffed his latest creation in the 'help the homeless' donation box at the local library. He kind of half expected them to just disappear down the memory hole of society, but once, checking in on Angel, he saw a van trundle up outside her apartment block and a couple with a kid emerge and start unloading a couple of suitcases. The man was wearing a knit hat with a distinct pattern, hexagonal shapes like a turtle shell; the little kid was clutching a little knitted turtle plushie.
...guess he had a lifelong hobby, he realized, seeing that.
Of course, if his brothers ever found out he was gonna have to murder them.
inspired by this short from the 2k3 cartoon