I may have cured myself of knitting in public.

At a local jazz concert recently, I dropped my knitting. I know y'all have many questions about this incident, so I shall answer them now.

Q: Was the yarn in ball form?
A: Yes.

Q: Was the floor of the high school auditorium sloped?
A: Yes.

Q: So your ball of yarn rolled gaily downhill under all the bolted-down seats.
A: That wasn't a question, but what the hell. Yes.

Q: Did it occur to you to put your sock-in-progress on the floor, go find your ball of yarn, and then pull the sock toward you whilst winding up the yarn?
A: Not until after the fourth attempt to roll the ball back uphill under all the correct chairs was successful.

Q: Did the people sitting around you, some of whom helpfully kicked your ball of yarn back uphill, find this at all humorous?
A: Nope. The teenagers sitting behind us, of whom my son was one, found it pretty funny, though.

Q: Was there a guy with a video camera, who probably got the whole thing on tape for all posterity?
A: Um ... no more questions! This interview is over! *breaks camera*

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El Fuego (who found the whole thing hilarious) points out that this incident will not cure me of knitting in public, but I certainly didn't do any more knitting during the concert. I was too afraid of a repeat performance. You know, it was the fact that the yarn was in ball form that caused the whole problem. A skein of yarn would have just flumped politely to the floor, and I'd have picked it up and kept knitting. No balls of yarn in public places with sloped floors, that's my new rule.

Okay! Who wants to look at some knitting??


I finished the Old Man of Gallifrey! I finished it on Sunday, and then was just too lazy to blog about it, for some reason. It isn't blocked yet, but I plan to do that this weekend.

Now, the details: the pattern is called Old Man of Storr, but I noticed several weeks ago that this shawl was almost always my "Doctor Who" knitting, so my personal rendition of this pattern became Old Man of Gallifrey. I only did one repeat of the lace pattern toward the end, and then a little more garter stitch for the edging, it's all very simple and lovely. The yarn is Knitpicks Imagination in the Frog Prince colorway, and it was knit on 5mm needles.