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Re: Help with old english knitting directions

I think that it is the essence of human culture to teach and share knowledge. An important part of teaching is inspiring curiosity. Knitting and crocheting in public inspires such curiosity. It is a good thing.

I can not see any problem with cable needles or short little sock needles - anywhere or anytime. Some needles might click, and those would be fine at a rock concert but maybe not at a chamber music recital. At a lecture, I do not see that knitting is any more distracting or bothersome to others than taking notes with paper and pen. I do not see that cable needles are any more dangerous than a pen and notebook on a bus, train, or plane. Moreover, however dirty some yarn may be, I do believe that most yarn is relatively sanitary in comparison to the fixtures (door handles, bar rails) in a public hall that has been recently touched by many hands and everything that floats in the air around an assembly of people.

Aaron

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I don't understand where this idea has come from that it's not acceptable to knit in public. I used to knit on the train on the way to and from University when I went home for the weekend, that was back in the early

1980s, and nobody ever complained. I also knitted on the train journey to work in the early 1990s.

I do voluntary work as a fundraiser for a cat charity, which can involve long boring hours on a fundraising stall with few customers, so I usually take my knitting with me, it can be a good talking point with neighbouring stallholders and it's a useful way of passing the time.

Jeanette

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Jeanette

Jeanette, I am with you. There may be to odd person who, is rude about it, but that person is most likely rude about many things. We are not going to take that person as the norm.

Keep on clicking away guys.

Els

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Els van Dam

Jeanette,,, as you write It USED to be quite Common to knit every where . It sort of Dwindled away, When i studied in university , many female students knited in lectures, and only the odd professor would coment against it . Than when it sort of evaporated , only the Few knitted , but les and less in public . The less common it became the more people raised their eyebrows, and at times opened their mouths, with some unkind remark. I have had some strange remarks , from rude ones to wondering [ 'people STILL knit?], to nice adoring ones. I don`t know where you live , my experiences are mostly from Israel , Some from Europe [ trains] , and Some from Boston USA .... Even when we lived in Manchester UK ages ago , it wasn`t common to knit everywhere. mirjam

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Mirjam Bruck-Cohen

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