Thursday, January 7, 2010

Frogging the tam/knitting on the subway

Just seemed like the sizing was off kilter, so I frogged the tam and will make my daughter a different hat with the pretty forest green yarn. It's not going to warm up anytime soon, so she'll be wearing hats and scarves for at least two more months. :-)

Knitting on the subway is sometimes ... interesting. Lots of people stare at my hands and seem to go into a sort of trance while watching me. Other people (mostly kids) ask what I'm making. Some (women only) will tell me their knitting stories, about their own projects or how their mom or grandmother knitted things for them.

At first, I was self conscious about knitting on the subway. But now I just go into my own zone and ignore the stares and answer the questions politely, always with a smile. Because knitting always makes me smile -- even when I'm frogging a tam.

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