Metro knitting!
This is too funny not to share.I had to leave the office to run an errand for work (and got some shopping in on the side, go me!), and knit on the metro to and from.
Vogue knitting had stalled while I figured out sleeve problems, and so I'd taken along Otis' pigtailed hat, which is adapted from the longstocking cap by simply splitting the stitches after the crown shaping and continuing the pattern normally, but with only half the stitches. It's an experiment. We'll see how it works.
Splitting the brim requires double pointed needles. My only size 10 DPNs are 10" long. They're the only size 10 DPNs I've ever found and they suck. They're way too huge, awkward and conspicuous.
Which is why, on the four times I knit on the subway today, I got the "I've never seen anyone knit with four needles before!" four times. One from a guy (about 18) who knew how to knit but only scarves and his possible girlfriend who wanted to learn how, one from a man who had someone knit a sweater for him for his birthday (his someone must have loved him very much), one from a woman who crocheted, and one from a 12 year old girl.
The 12 year old was on the other side of the (crowded, rush hour) subway car and talking loudly about it. Since I wasn't wearing headphones and I am not Deaf, I heard every word, and called across that it wasn't as hard as it looked (which was hard- the yarns were horribly twisted and I had my circ holding the inactive stitches) and that it was the same as knitting with two needles.
The guy standing next to me turns around and says "Weren't you knitting something different yesterday? Wasn't it maroon?"
'Do I know you?' I thought. Indeed, yesterday I was working on my cranberry Vogue sweater body. I'd been panicking about the sleeves and left the project until I could figure it out. I said as much (but without as much specifics) and he said it was fascinating to watch.
And then I got off the train and got on a bus.
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