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I’ve been incredibly self-absorbed lately, and I haven’t had much content for blogging. I’m busy with various other things, and though I am knitting, well, nothing is exciting to look at or interesting to talk about. No Eye Candy this week; I barely took any photos all week and exploring my old photos just didn’t excite me.
But I do have a nice story to tell, from our weekend adventures.
The boy and I went up to NYC on Friday to visit with my oldest friend (the Zokni Sock recipient), and in the morning before we left I tried to think of a new thing to knit on the journey. The boy has always expressed an interest in a knitted tie, so I found some yarn that would work–actually, I took out the Pomatomus I was working on for his mom, because he liked the yarn color and I need to go back to square one for those socks (not enough yarn). Anyway, this was the perfect mindless knitting for the train ride.
On the way home yesterday, after a whirlwind of exceptional and yummy food and free MoMA, the Septa train was so crowded we sat three across with another woman. It turned out she was deaf; she wrote a few things on a piece of paper to communicate with the conductor. A little later she got out her paper again and wrote something on it–I knew immediately it was a message for me, and I thought it was going to be something about her stop or something. Instead, it said:
“Is it hard to knit?”
I laughed and emphatically said “No!” while shaking my head. I wrote on my own piece of paper “It just takes practice.” Then she asked me what I was knitting, so I showed her the picture from the Interweave Knits I’m using for the pattern (I’m doing plain stockinette, flat-bottom tie. Nothing fancy). She then wrote “I’ve always wanted to learn, but I thought it was hard.” I smiled again and tried to show, nonverbally, that she should try it, because it’s really not something to be scared of. If I’d had more yarn, I think I might have tried to teach her right then and there.
Maybe there’s a new knitter out there somewhere right now, who’s learning that it’s not that hard, if you practice.
3 Responses to self-absorbed
You never know when you can spread the joy of knitting.
Amy
Yay, your blog came back!
Don’t you think we should all carry around little bags with cheap yarn and needles so that we can spread the joy of knitting to everyone who shows the slighest glimmer of interest?
I totally want to do what Ashley suggests. Distribute little learn-to-knit kits to anhyone who shows interest. Of course I picture them in darling little bags hand-sewn with colorful fabrics…I’m not exactly sure who’s going to finance and manage this little enterprise, but I’m enjoying it in my head.
I took a year of American Sign Language in college and I loved it. I was much more of a natural at that than at verbal foreign languages. It is very cool.