LOL who woulda thunk it? I googled knitting related injuries + car accidents and came up w/nothing… you’re probably safe, but stick w/circs in the car just to be sure…
I knit while riding as a defensive measure - DH thinks he’s Dale Earnhardt Jr, and if I don’t look at something other than the road, I am constantly gasping and bracing myself and stomping on the imaginary brake pedal on the passenger side :roflhard: :roflhard: DH gets a bit irritated w/me, needless to say…
When I clicked on this thread I thought the main concern was the needles popping the airbag and rendering it useless… something else to think about…
I had a gal friend that got a cut on her forhead from her airbag (she was driving), but that obviously is better than the alternative. I think the likelihood of airbag injuries due to the deployment itelf is more than it sending anything flying to hurt you. I don’t think you’d be holding the needles tight enough to render the bag useless by poking it either.
I knit on a baby blanket in the backseat while my brother in law drove my sister in law and i to a wedding. It got dark and I took out my handy dany LCD book light I got at Target and clipped it to my shirt and aimed the light at my knitting… VIOLA!
Dh and I are planning on traveling this fall, pulling our travel trailer. I plan to buy a headlamp before we go. There’s no way I’m wasting all that riding time.
well I suppose if you lost your eyes in an accident, you could always learn to knit blind. A family friend of mine does exactly that, she was robbed of her site a couple of months after I met her, so she learned to knit blind. Granted, she’s not the world’s most speediest knitter, but that’s not what was important.
hey kemp- that esp tickled my funny bone since after the Pope died, I got all catholic again for a minute, and subscribed to all these free magazines - :shock: what was I thinking! :roflhard: :roflhard: :roflhard:
[size=2]no offense to any catholics out there…there is a lot I do still respect about the church though there’s things I do disagree with, and I don’t wanna be a ‘cafeteria’ catholic[/size]
KK, and any other interested parties… here’s my booklight I use in the event I knit in the dark. It has a bendy neck and an LED light. I clip it to my shirt and it lights up my lap for knittin’
That light is the coolest! Have you tried using it up front in the passenger seat? My DH mentioned trying to find me one but I don’t want the light to distract him or be too bright where it makes that reflection in the windsheid.
I have an even smaller one that I clip onto the visorwhen DH is driving - he’s really sensitive to glare, and it doesn’t bother him at all… but being so far away from my lap, it is a little dim - I’m gonna try what BinkyKat did and clip it to my shirt instead for our next roadtrip.
My dh doesn’t mind it. In fact, there are times before I had that little light, that I flipped on the dome light. Our car has two, one aimed at the driver side and one at the passenger, up front. He suggested it and it wasn’t too bad. honestly, his majesty is more sensitive to lights when his eyes are closed and i am trying to read in bed. the man has his eyes closed and is facing away from me and he gets all harumpfy when i have any light on, as dim as i can without going blind… :rollseyes:
i wonder for those that wear hats with bills like a visor or ball cap, you could clip it to the bill?
I know there are tons of different booklights out there, but this one was just right, i believe i got it for less than 10 bucks. i wanna say something like 5.99. it was in the book section of target.
Isn’t THAT the truth! We had two dangerous near misses on our last trip. I was so thankful that my dh is a conscientious driver. His lightening quick reactions saved us from a bad wreck both times. Then there was the fact that we sat for probably an hour, not moving, due to a traffic back-up.
About the time I first came here (March), there was a thread going about lights to knit by when traveling. Several mentioned wearing those headlamps like campers (or miners) use, and how great they worked. I think I remember Amy saying she wears hers around her neck.
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