This time on my train journey home. Now I don't actually have to keep an eye on every stitch I make and in this case I was knitting in the round with a ribbed pattern, so I had the leisure to look around the carriage.
Of course as I am in the UK there were a few sidelong glances and then I was seriously ignored. People were far too busy and important to notice anything like a sock - except for three guys. One who kept leaning over (rather precariously I thought) to get a better look at what I was up to, the second spent 30mins glaring at me (srsly every time I looked up he was frowning at me which seemed a little odd) and the third young man sitting opposite me who stared attentively at the knitting and only at the knitting. This was also a little disconcerting as usually people are not that interested in knitting.
More surprisingly when I got off the train he came up to me and said "I couldn't help noticing you were knitting and I was wondering what you were making."
This was just such a British thing to say as if his noticing the knitting has been some terrible intrusion on my privacy. Made me smile.
i hope you told him something utterly ridiculous like a pint class or a bicycle pump
ReplyDeletekid ye not - there are apparently guerilla knitters who will dress things like lamp posts in lamp post jumpers . . .
ReplyDeleteoh my god - firstly how do you know that and secondly - when are you knitting me a lamp post sweater? if you will knit me a lamp post sweater I WILL KNIT! i want a 'no bill posters' on it. and 'this lamp post has been painted with anti-climb paint'.
ReplyDeleteHAHAHA I can just see myself explaining to a police officer "you see the reason I have a tape measure wrapped around the lamp post is that I belong to the society for the prevention of ... um ... children licking lamp posts in winter... 'cos they get stuck and it's really painful ... so I'm going to knit it a jumper ... ' at which point they will call the men in white coats.
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