While knitting at the hair salon (waiting for my highlights to develop 
) āOh, you can come answer the phones here anytime!ā By the receptionist, with a pittying look on her face.
Ummm, excuse me???!!! Duma@@!
Passerby: "Boy, arenāt you a little young to be knitting like a grandma?"
Me (in my head) āIām freakinā 36! Iām not so young, and not old!ā
(out loud) āNah, Iām knitting because of my grandma!ā
Okay, this isnāt really something someone SAID, but stillā¦
I was sitting in a hospital lobby, waiting to be picked up a few months ago. Naturally, I had brought my knitting along. There was a dad sitting there also, with a little girl probably aged 4 or 5. She was very fascinated and kept watching what I was doing. Also, on the coffee table there in the lobby was a basket of knitting stuff, with a note that it was there for people to knit squares for blanketsā¦ya know, knit a few rows, then leave it for the next person. So there was some knitting on a needle, probably only 6 rows or so, and this little girl picks it up. First she just held it, then she would look at what I was doing, then try to wrap the yarn around herself, etc. (by the way, the second needle was missing in actionā¦ 
). At first it was cute, THEN as they were getting ready to leave, the dad takes it away from her and he starts to slip stitches off the needle :shock: :shock: :shock: . Then he proceeds to make little loops and put the loops on the needle, as though he knows what heās doing :doh: . Let me tell you, I was CRINGING inside but figured that since it was only 6 rows of mediocre knitting that I wouldnāt say anything, but really, WHAT are people thinking sometimes??? :fingerwag:
okay i donāt even understand the point of that! :??
OH yeah! THat is the right answer 
Oh yeah I forgot to add my story. OK so I work in a computer lab on campus. Basically I sit behind a desk and knit while folks use the computers. I put more paper in the printer and help folks out when they need it. SO Iām sitting at my desk and I get lots of stares, occasional smiles and mostly a lot of āI wish I could do that but I donāt have any patience.ā Iām thinking knitting will give you patience. I had just finished my long blue hiking scarf and it was sitting onthe desk and this woman came up and put the scarf on and played with it! Some people. Anyway, today this girl came up and was commenting and said she knits and would love to knit a regular ole beanie hat. SO I clicked over to knittingpatterncentral and found a beanie pattern adn printed it out for her on the spot. She was so happy. So sometimes comments can be OK. 
Thatās really rude. I canāt believe someone said that to you. Obviously, they didnāt have any parents at home to teach them manners. :doh: I hate it when people make rude comments about my state of motherhood or lack thereof.
Itās off-topic, but Iām planning on having children soon after I get married. Iām 25, itās something Iāve wanted to do for my entire life, and thatās that. And I get the stupidest comments from people about THAT, too. āYouāll change your mind about how many you want after you have themā āOnce you have kids, you canāt go out anymore!ā āYou should travel first!ā
People, I donāt want to travel, nor do I want to go out. I want to stay at home and knit (or try to knit, as is sometimes the case). I am pretty aware of what it takes to have children, Iāve done way more research on childrearing, child psychology, parenting, pregnancy, and childbirth than you probably thought possible, and oh, my kids will have better manners than, say, you. :rollseyes:
So Iām going to get stupid comments about my knitting, too? Gah!
I took my DDās sweater that I had just started from the bottom and working on cirs to work. I only had about 2 inches done when someone asked me,
Are you making a steering wheel cover? :doh:
Hey Femiā¦ perhaps you could knit a pair of tighty whities and see how may people will eagerly try those on! :roflhard:
brendajos
PostPosted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 8:17 pm Post subject:
Jillle wrote:
While knitting at the hair salon (waiting for my highlights to develop Wink ) āOh, you can come answer the phones here anytime!ā By the receptionist, with a pittying look on her face.Ummm, excuse me???!!! Duma@@!
okay i donāt even understand the point of that! Scratching Head
I think what she meant was āOh honey, if you are that sad and bored that you have to resort to knittingā¦you can come in here and do something useful like answer our phones!ā
When you are working on something that has loose ends through it cause of change of color or change of skeins and you getā¦ But what about those hangy strings wonāt that make the whole thing come apartā¦ :doh: its called weaving them inā¦ :lol:
a woman i work with told me that i shouldnt knit " because knitting makes you look older"
:??
my response to her was to ignore her and continue :XX:
So does being a total boob!
gawd, some people! :rollseyes:
OMG, Femmy, how true!!! I never thought I would have the patience to knit the way I doā¦ :XX:
Thank goodness, no oneās really said anything odd or ill-mannered to me about my knittingā¦ well, DH calls me āGrandmaā sometimes , but I either smile sweetly and say Iām sure I will be, somedayā¦ or remind him of all the things I do that most definitely are not granny-ishā¦ :eyebrow: 
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SO many people just dont GET IT. When I get the dumb comments about patience, I tell them how meditative knitting can be. Most people I run into are simply interested.
That story about the little girl is ADORABLE. (Except the part where her father slipped the sts. WHY!!!) My niece and my Broās GFās DD are both TRANSFIXED when I knit, so I let them āhelpā meā¦I stick the needle in the stitch and let them wrap the yarn. They LOVE it! DBāsGFāsDD did that with me for half an hour the last time I saw her! I thought that was quite an attention span for an almost-5 year oldā¦
[color=teal]I had a commissioned project once that was pale aqua baby yarn, which the reciever had purchased.
I was paranoid about anyone with dirty hands touching it.
I kept it in a pillow case, and work at the opening so I could quick stash it.
I also carried wipes with me to make sure my own hands were never dirty or oily.
I do not work like that with my own stuff. [/color]
Hmmm. I have three kids, we travel, never regretted having them (although because of health reasons we did stop at 3 instead of having 4 like we had planned), and I have time to knit.
The stupid comment I get all the time is, āWow, you knit? But itās so hard!ā To which I always think, āYes I knit. And knitting isnāt hard. Getting a dog to dress like a turkey is hard. Knitting is just pulling loops through other loops!ā (Or whatever the āis hardā quote of the month is!) 
a woman i work with told me that i shouldnt knit " because knitting makes you look older"
Omg too funny! :roflhard:
Botox or yarn, botox or yarnā¦hmmm 
I donāt get so many comments anymore, b/c I donāt have too many opportunities to knit outside of work and at home. But I tell you, I got lots of weird comments and looks when I was telling people about going to visit an alpaca farm (from āwhy do people have alpacas?ā to ādo they taste good?ā :shock: what? eat an alpaca???)
Mostly everyone at work understands my obsession and just thinks itās cute that I get so excited about it. And when people visit my cubicle and see the Hello Yarn wallpaper I have on my computer (little balls of dyed roving), I get a lot of, āwell why am I not surprised to see that as your wallpaper?ā
Lately Iāve been getting a lot of āoh you knit? So do I!ā Which is ALWAYS welcomed!
ooooooh i have Hello Yarn wallpaper on all but my newest computer (cuz it is only 3 days old!) I want her to put up new ones!!