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Knitting Encounters

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1Marensr
Jan 9, 2008, 2:17 pm

I knit on the Chicago CTA quite a bit and find that people talk to me about it.

Yesterday I had a little older man with a white beard and hair tell me that he loved knitting in boring meetings and had made it through many a boring church committee that way. Then he approved of the fact that I hold my yarn in my left had. He thought holding it in the right seemed liked wasted effort and asked me about Villette which I had in my knit bag.

It was such a funny little exchange.

Anyone else have funny/good/bad knitting encounters.

2MissTris
Jan 9, 2008, 11:38 pm

Howdy! I'm new to this group (and to this website in general).

I often knit on the campus shuttle bus at my college and the first time I pulled out a hat I was working on the bus driver screamed "WOOOOEEEE! I haven't seen anyone KNITTING since I was in college!" (He was rather elderly). He went on to ask me if I'd knit him a scarf. I thought it was kind of funny.

3Marensr
Jan 10, 2008, 12:49 pm

Welcome MissTris! Very funny. It is amazing how enthusiastic strangers can be about knitting. I love it.

4MaggieO
Jan 10, 2008, 3:00 pm

One time I joined my daughter's 3rd grade class on a trip to the apple orchard. Naturally, I brought my knitting on the bus with me. One child asked what I was doing - he'd never known about knitting, in 3rd grade! Several kids were mesmerized just watching. I love it when kids take an interest in my knitting!

In the opposite direction was the time I volunteered to be a hall monitor during movie night at the elementary school. A boy and his family stopped to see the needlework I was doing, and he proudly took his knitting loom out of a totebag to show me the project he was working on (he'd brought it to work on during the movie). Wonderful!

5Storeetllr
Jan 10, 2008, 10:37 pm

Hi, I just found this group and had to join.

I used to ride the train 3 hours a day back & forth from work, knitting and listening to audiobooks on my iPod. All sorts of people would stop by and want to talk about my knitting ~ from lawyers to transients.

I sat with the same group of people most days, and one of the men would bring his two little girls with him (they went to day care at the University where he worked). Anyway, the oldest one (she just turned 5 last summer, so she was a little over 4 at the time) would sit on my lap and "help" me knit (I was using a Nifty Knitter to make some hats at the time), and seemed enthralled with it. Well, I decided to get her a circular "Nifty Knitter" set and some yarn for her birthday, and she was thrilled. I helped her get started, and she made her mom a hat and a scarf for Christmas. That was very satisfying.

6MaggieO
Jan 11, 2008, 8:27 am

That's great, Storeetllr. I wish I could get my kids to knit. One isn't interested at all. The other gets excited about making something, and that lasts as long as she has chosen and I've bought the yarn and the project has a few rows completed. Then it joins the other UFOs cluttering my knitting baskets. Sigh.

7marise
Jan 11, 2008, 9:22 am

She may come back to knitting, or other needlework, when she grows up, MaggieO. I remember my aunt trying to teach me to knit when I was about 10 yrs. old and I never completed anything. But as a young mother, I wanted to knit baby clothes and picked up the needles again. You have given her a good beginning!

8Marensr
Jan 11, 2008, 5:06 pm

I agree. I came from a family of knitters and learned several times as a child but I abandoned all projects until I knit my first sweater when I was about 12. I needed something I really wanted to actually finish it.

9AnnaClaire
Modifié : Jan 12, 2008, 6:45 pm

I was knitting a hat on double-pointeds about a year ago. (I was "in storage" in New Jersey while my apartment was under renovation. Having a wood-and-wool "porcupine" out made the transfer at Newark a bit smoother.) Two or three people asked about the DPNs. But one guy on the 42nd Street Shuttle asked what "that little metal thing" was for, so I gave him a quick demo of cables.

10pmpayne
Jan 14, 2008, 2:47 pm

When I worked at the public library, folks would come in to get books on knitting and then we would talk about what projects we had going or what yarn we really liked. It is a good conversation starter. The best was when one of my former junior high students came in and I found she was a knitter. That gave us two things in common as we both like the same books and it was a good way to get reconnected.

11knittingfreak
Jan 17, 2008, 10:46 am

I had a doctor's appointment the other day and took along my socks that I'm knitting on dpns. If I remember correctly, four different people asked me about my knitting in one way or another. Knitting is a great conversation starter!

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