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msgb
Gabber Extraordinaire
USA
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 Posted - 02/08/2006 : 08:11:19 AM
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| I was at my sister's pre-nup dinner. The speaches were getting a little long and I was getting a little bored. Took out the needles and began to knit. |
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MMario
Permanent Resident
2202 Posts |
Posted - 02/08/2006 : 08:14:51 AM
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hmmmmm-- the place most people would probably consider most unusual would be the deck of the charles Morgan - a whaling ship at Mystic Seaport.
MMario - I don't live in the 21st century - but I play a character who does. |
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chellethinques
Permanent Resident
USA
1431 Posts |
Posted - 02/08/2006 : 08:29:07 AM
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| Does the labor and delivery room count? How about while nursing the new babe and waiting for the lactation nurse to visit? OK, it was only dishcloths, but hormones make me *really* jittery and anxious, and just sitting around was making it worse...I know the nurses were freaked out! |
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knittx
New Pal
USA
49 Posts |
Posted - 02/08/2006 : 09:27:12 AM
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During a Texas-Holdem Poker tournament. Hey...no one could figure out my tells. Finished the tourney in third place and in the money. OK...it was $25.
Susan |
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wittyknits
Chatty Knitter
109 Posts |
Posted - 02/08/2006 : 12:55:22 PM
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I want to knit while playing poker. I'm hoping to do that for my bday this year. I've done it, but only playing against my own family.
Strangest place I've knit was probably walking down one of the main streets in my city. I was working on the cabled border to the Great American Aran Afghan. I had the yarn in my backpack, and let the work dangle in front of me.
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wittyknits.blogspot.com
Because a witty knit beats a nitwit any day! |
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crzyboutyarn
Seriously Hooked
USA
792 Posts |
Posted - 02/08/2006 : 12:55:55 PM
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hmmmm I knit where ever I am going to be for long periods of time.
~Courtney [IMG]http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d192/love2croceht/knitting.gif[/IMG]
A Full Stash is a Happy Stash!!
http://crzyboutcrochet.blogspot.com/
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llamafiber4
Chatty Knitter
USA
110 Posts |
Posted - 02/08/2006 : 1:50:32 PM
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I'll knit whereever I can. I've taken my needles and drop spindle to conference meetings and sitting in traffic, while my DH drives always.I can't stand to just sit in the car and do nothing so much time wasted!!!
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calicokitty6
Seriously Hooked
USA
864 Posts |
Posted - 02/08/2006 : 3:30:18 PM
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I knit at Weight Watchers meeting too. There is also another lady sitting at the other end of the room knitting. We had to compare projects before the meeting 2 weeks ago. Several people ask questions, but no one says it bothers or distracts them and the leader does not seem to mind.
=^..^= Debbie http://calicokitty6.blogspot.com |
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truly violet
Permanent Resident
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Posted - 02/08/2006 : 3:54:03 PM
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Originally posted by MMario
hmmmmm-- the place most people would probably consider most unusual would be the deck of the charles Morgan - a whaling ship at Mystic Seaport.
MMario - I don't live in the 21st century - but I play a character who does.
I love that ship
vi
none of this will matter in 100 years.......
except I will finally be at my goal weight...vi
http://notashyviolet.blogspot.com/ ~now with chickens!
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truly violet
Permanent Resident
6397 Posts |
Posted - 02/08/2006 : 3:55:50 PM
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I knit all over.... so that isn't odd
but I taught a receptionist in a doctors office to spin.....
on a drop spindle in the waiting room
I think everyone found it rather different
except me
I was spinning border leicester and wanted to get it done
vi
none of this will matter in 100 years.......
except I will finally be at my goal weight...vi
http://notashyviolet.blogspot.com/ ~now with chickens!
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adalton124
Seriously Hooked
659 Posts |
Posted - 02/08/2006 : 4:27:00 PM
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I knit in a fraternity house regularly. I'm their cook and sometimes there's nothing to do but wait for food to finish cooking itself. The rest of the time I have to round up all the pots and pans they "borrow" for ice buckets. (To keep their sodas cold I'm sure) [whatever]
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RoseByAny
Permanent Resident
USA
12598 Posts |
Posted - 02/08/2006 : 4:39:51 PM
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Yup, I knit everywhere too. Today did it standing up in line to check in for the phlebotomist.
The most challenging was to knit while getting dental surgery.
"Choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color. Choosing your socks by their character makes no sense, and choosing your friends by their color is unthinkable."
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meknits
Chatty Knitter
USA
175 Posts |
Posted - 02/08/2006 : 5:10:08 PM
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Public knitting in Paris is a lot more uncommon than in the US. Circa 2003, I got lots of stares on the bus, park, and in the foyer of my kids' school. I did knit while watching my kid have a crown put in at the dentist--the only way I could handle the ordeal. Oh, and emergency rooms---you always have to wait:(
http://marymqc.blogspot.com/ |
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Susan T-O
Permanent Resident
USA
2481 Posts |
Posted - 02/08/2006 : 6:54:11 PM
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I guess mine would be while standing in line at KFC (or for those of us old enough to remember, Kentucky Fried Chicken). Of course, I'll knit just about anywhere that I have free hands & free time, and none of them really seem strange to me.
--Susan T-O in Long Beach CA
"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the
most discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny.'" --Isaac Asimov |
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Emelia Lesser
Gabber Extraordinaire
USA
359 Posts |
Posted - 02/08/2006 : 7:34:00 PM
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At first I felt a little strange knitting in my art history lecture, but this semester there seems to be a sN'b section.
~Em
"Art is the reason I get up in the morning but my definition ends there and it just doesn't seem fair that I'm living for something I can't even define...but there he is in the mean time," ~Ani DiFranco |
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angelcooper@hotmail.com
Gabber Extraordinaire
541 Posts |
Posted - 02/08/2006 : 8:05:53 PM
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Lets see, I knit in the car on the way - wherever when my friend is driving. I knit at a play a couple of years ago. I knit at the doctor's office and at church between a church meeting and handbell practice and the night when we have concerts. I need to have "pocket projects" that I can knit while walking. Wouldn't it be nice if I could knit while riding my bike???!!!?!?!?!?!?
Angel
Knitting and spinning in the Shenandoah Valley
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crise
Chatty Knitter
337 Posts |
Posted - 02/08/2006 : 8:12:48 PM
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I knit at the Zoo when the entire family goes. I can only take riding on the kiddy train so many times, ack!
Kris
http://krisknits2.blogspot.com |
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kadiddly
Permanent Resident
USA
3076 Posts |
Posted - 02/08/2006 : 9:36:25 PM
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hmm...doctor's offices, waiting to pick up a package at UPS, and, the newest, the bar we frequent on Tuesday nights. Knitting seems to be absolutely fascinating to drunk people, for some reason. (I was the dd at the time.)
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Originally posted by blwinteler
All are amazed that I do it while walking.
I'm amazed that you can do it while walking, too - I have trouble remembering to breathe and walk sometimes, I think!
Proud member of the US Shawl/Wrap Olympic Knitting Team!
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blwinteler
Permanent Resident
USA
3145 Posts |
Posted - 02/08/2006 : 10:05:31 PM
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Originally posted by blwinteler
All are amazed that I do it while walking.
I'm amazed that you can do it while walking, too - I have trouble remembering to breathe and walk sometimes, I think!
As a kid, I used to read while I walked, even through the halls at school. I never ran into anyone. I had a few people run into me on purpose (no way I could have avoided them, when I moved they moved), but I was always aware of where I was going. Now I knit instead of reading while I walk. I figure that I might as well knit for the 20 minutes between here and the school. I knit slower while I walk, but not as slow as not knitting at all. And reading while walking down the street is not nearly as safe as reading in school halls. Much easier to pay attention when I am knitting, since I take projects that I barely have to look at.
Take care!
Brandy
My finished projects
We are but 8 score young blondes and brunettes... all between 16 and 19-and-a-half... cut off in this castle with no one to protect us! Oh... it is a lonely life. Bathing... dressing... undressing... knitting exciting underwear ....(Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Tale of Sir Galahad)
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njzube@aol.com
New Pal
25 Posts |
Posted - 02/08/2006 : 10:06:17 PM
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| I knit at long stop lights, stopped construction trafficm and while waiting for the drive-in bank teller, and consider none of them a strange place to knit. It takes the stress out of waiting. I don't care if the light ever changes, traffic ever moves, or the teller ever gets to me. Jz |
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