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 😎
I guess hardship leads to success, or something.
@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 I’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.
@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! 😅
Bet you looked really pro recovering from that misstep though.
@thegiddystitcher @knitting I’ve used magic loop but now I’ve mastered DPNs I rather like the bewildered looks little kids give the knitting because it looks so confusing!
I like to tell my nieces that I’m doing really complicated magic, and you can tell because it requires so many extra wands! 😂
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
@QTpi 😱
I do this all the time :) I even yanked out a circular doing 2 circ method once, because I forgot it was not a DPN.
I confess that I stick a point protector/cap on any free end of a DPN.
It means moving caps around and pulling the caps in and out of my little handy zip bag (where stitch markers, yarn needles and my emergency save-the-day crochet hook also live). But it saves a lot of internal swearing. I’m so used to it that by now when I don’t have the right gauge needles for a small project, I’ll just use a pair of DPN with caps stuck on the free ends.
For public transit, I eventually settled on afghan crochet mostly. Little can go wrong. One does get odd looks as few people know what to make of the long hooks or the technique.
I wish I could use my bus commute time constructively but I get hella carsick
Ah that’s the worst, I used to get it really bad too but the last few years by some miracle it’s just sort of…gone away? I can even read in cars now and everything, ten years ago that was a sure way to get ill. So I guess what I’m saying is there’s always hope.
Still always carry motion sickness pills though of course, just in case, those things are a lifesaver!
Update: Probably about 4 hours of bus progress (note the draping of sock one in the background there, that’s what I call Art)
I usually bike commute and drive 1-2 days to work, but I’ve been seriously thinking of ditching car commuting and taking public transport for the sole purpose of being able to knit on the ride lol. I’m reconsidering the idea now reading the scary stories in this thread 😅
@kurobita Note how it didn’t actually put any of us off though! Totes worth it 😄
