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The perils of public bus knitting. (artisan.chat)
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The perils of public bus knitting.

LOTS of bus travel for me today, so naturally I brought my sock project. Forgot I needed to frog the start of sock two and cast on again though. In public. Uhoh, pressure.

Well it is my pleasure to inform you that this morning I successfully remembered how to do a figure 8 cast on without looking up the instructions, for the first time ever ๐Ÿ˜Ž

I guess hardship leads to success, or something.

@knitting #Knitting #KnittingInPublic

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[-] magslhalliday@mstdn.social 13 points 1 year ago

@thegiddystitcher @knitting I was once finishing a sleeve on a baby cardigan on a train, using DPNs. I thought I was grabbing my newly empty DPN from my left hand when I realised Iโ€™d somehow grabbed the next DPN that had stitches on it instead and had cheerfully slid all the stitches off it. Cue frantic careful picking up of 18 dropped stitches in public.

I have changed my way of working on DPNs.

[-] thegiddystitcher@artisan.chat 7 points 1 year ago

@magslhalliday @knitting Oh no! I used to live in fear of something like this with DPNs and had visions of dropping them and having them roll down the whole bus. Big part of the reason I learned to just do everything magic loop instead! ๐Ÿ˜…

Bet you looked really pro recovering from that misstep though.

[-] magslhalliday@mstdn.social 8 points 1 year ago

@thegiddystitcher @knitting Iโ€™ve used magic loop but now Iโ€™ve mastered DPNs I rather like the bewildered looks little kids give the knitting because it looks so confusing!

[-] myhouseonneptune@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I like to tell my nieces that I'm doing really complicated magic, and you can tell because it requires so many extra wands! ๐Ÿ˜‚

[-] QTpi@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

I have dropped a DPN on my ferry ride.... It's a cramped, stay seated the whole time experience. Trying the wiggle around to the point that I could get it while bouncing around... Do not recommend

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