For more info on what it is, click the badge. And join in with the fun!
Let’s say this loud and clear once and for all: I’m a public knitter and I love it! Knitting can be a pretty solitary activity, which I don’t mind, but I also love to be surrounded by other people when I knit, whether they are with me or just around me. The only thing I don’t like, and this goes for all my activities including knitting, is doing things in short snippets of time. I don’t like taking out my needles if I have to put them away in 10 minutes, and the same goes for a book, a jog, or a telephone conversation.
Here’s the list of all the places where I’ve knit so far:
- a fjord (definitely the most exotic location)
- a mountain (after climbing, I kept motivating myself – another 20 minutes, then a knitting break ;)
- cars (I thought I’d get motion sickness, but I was fine)
- trains (ideal for long train-rides)
- cafes (especially open-air ones)
- park benches (obviously)
- the grass (one of my favourites)
- the beach (sand and wool are not the best combination)
- the floor (you’d be surprized how often)
- my bed (but not lying down)
- armchairs (difficult with straight needles)
- hotels (I don’t like hotels, I get terribly lonely in them, knitting helps)
- a museum (one girl stopped watching the movie on the artist and stared at me for 20 minutes straight)
- pubs (a totally British thing – luv it!)
- a library (there is one library at my school where people go to sleep. I go to knit)
- a yarn shop (skeins are always trying to sneakily jump into your lap and make you take them home with you)
- a bookshop (probably the most magical bookshop I’ve ever been to)
- at my desk (when I’m trying to figure out a technique from an online tutorial)
Interestingly, there aren’t many photos of me knitting, and in those that do exist – I’m usually frowning. I think that’s just my concentrated face… :) But, instead of that, you get a smile today (I’ve been waiting for an excuse to show off my new hairstyle ;)
Hugs all round! :)
fridica 
I want to knit at a fjord! Yes please!!! And I have to say, that’s an adorable photo of you. It made me smile. :)
Love your list. Where next? Love your picture. I’d say that’s the smile and twinkle in the eyes of someone a little mischievious!
hehe, yeah there’s definitely mischief in there, that’s why i love it so much :)
Knitting at a fjord?! I love it! I think this calls for knitting at even more exotic locales. :)
That’s a cool list :-)
Thanks! Looking forward to seeing others’! :)
So many good places to knit in! I should definitively try the fjord! (you’re right this is exotic) ^^
The fjord was awesome – so serene. Perfect for knitting.
Love the hair :) and I think many of your locations are my locations :D public knitters unite
I’m not as adventurous as that! Great post.
Great post. Love it!
Wow. Knitting on a fjord. That just sounds cool. I am just not that cool, but thanks to you I can live vicarously!
Haha, I feel like I’ve gained this coolness epithet by cheating somehow. I just *happened to be* on a fjord (I spent last summer in Norway) so I knit, because I knit everywhere :)
I really must get out and knit more, I’m jealous of all the cool places you’ve knit–and your cute new hairstyle!
Very cute hair. :)
Love this post!
Love your new hair! I don’t think I could knit on the beach. I’m a magnet for messiness as it is, I’d be picking sand out of whatever it was I was knitting years down the line.
I didn’t do it too many times. Honestly, even knitting on summer vacation was sort of odd, cause my hands would have salt on them from swimming in the sea, and even that doesn’t mix too well with wool. But I’m an addict, what can I say!
I’m all about the public knitting!! All. About. It. People give me weird looks and I don’t give a darn. I even knit while I sat in the doctor’s office with my husband when he got his vasectomy! Yes, right next to him during the procedure! Seriously… I’ll knit anywhere. :)
Haha, were you allowed in with your husband? :D
Very cool list! That’s funny about the museum – did you feel like one of the exhibits? hehe
Actually, it was quite strange. The girl literally turned around in her seat and watched me for quite some time. It’s strange, because when people are watching you like that, they either: a) watch you for a bit and then approach you to ask a question or b) look away if they see you’ve noticed them and pretend like they weren’t watching. She had obviously seen that I had noticed her, but she kept on watching relentlessly. I had a feeling she might have wanted to approach me but was too shy. In any case, it was a sweet experience, definitely not a creepy one :)
Hey smiley face! Love your new hair!
Public Knitters are my tribe, seriously. I love seeing people knitting out and about :D
I don’t see that many people doing it in London! Am I going to the wrong places? Where do you do knitter-spotting? :)
Your hair looks great.
I’m a bit of a rubbish public-knitter…. I’ll knit at a knitting group but other than that it’s at home (or someone else’s home, obviously…). And I think being stared at for 20 minutes straight is definitely enough to scare me off public knitting – aaagh!!!
Haha, well it actually messed up my knitting – I started getting all stage-frighty :D I kept thinking to myself “look cool, look cool” and dropping stitches… :D
Pingback: guess what was just announced! « fridica