Well I'm finally home after a horrible journey, not helped by the train running out of food before I got any!
I'm not impressed with the York / London journey and have to do the whole trip again next week there and back in a day - with planned engineering works. I'm trying to work out how much knitting I will need for a day out!
The first hour of the journey was spent in silence as everyone was reading the papers or dozing. In an effort to stay awake I got out some knitting - a lace shawl and had to keep stopping to read the chart. Before long the older couple from across the aisle where chatting to me, then the young man opposite joined in intrigued by the chart so I ended up giving an impromptu lesson on chart reading and an explanation of the stitches.
What is it about knitting in public that helps to breakdown the communication wall with fellow passsengers?
Posted by Yvonne at November 27, 2006 01:08 PMThat is a lovely story on one ocaision in the past a fellow comuter asked me to stop knitting as he could not concentrate on his newspaper, I usually use bamboo circular needles these days quieter, easier on the wrist.
I also have this theory that people who come from places like Yorkshire will talk to about nearly anything.
Could we have a post about your progress on the shawl