POLL: Is it acceptable to Knit In Public?

[Fillyjonk]

I mean, i do, all the time but..

noone else seems to

I am especially gearing up courage to KIP at p/t group cos theres naff all else to do there, is there? They don't like you to take a book

so

anyone else?

I get small children asking, politely 'what are you knitting?'. I get mothers pointing me out 'look, she's knitting, just like gran'. It is always bloody well just like gran. Various people can talk about how hip and cool knitting is, but it's always just like gran.

I have taught at least 4 kids to knit from my KIP escapades

I actually try to carry spare (homemade) needles and wool, so as not to miss a potential convert

I got a letter last week from an 8 yo who I had taught to knit. It is rather nice to spread the craft.

right. i'm determined. i'm going to out myself and kip next week.

but as for kipping on a plane - surely security wouldn't let you through with the needles?

oh theres a debate, wwh

I think some sorts of needles are ok

but if must help if you are the pilot (like aviatrix)

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I've kipped on planes. I would say:

• don't bring metal stuff if you can - wooden needles or plastic. Obviously no darning needle etc.
• don't ask, just do it.

The official advice on all the websites is, they're fine. Probably even metal ones are fine. But of course you can run into a difficult security person and have a problem.

Do you women not realise how trendy knitting is at the moment?

The most trendy arty pubs in Edinburgh have knitting nights - that's how public it's getting. Go on - make a show of yourselves.

Are you in Edinburgh too, pointydog?

I don't knit in public but that's just because I would need something to keep my mind occupied at the same time. If I was at a P+T group I would

I am nearish to Edinburgh.

isn't that weird pruni, my kids are FINE in starbucks too

ah, could it be that they spent their young lives there?

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I have never kipped yet, but then my knitting career is only just taking off

And much like Pruni, I tend to have a wriggly ds wherever I go...

Pointydog, you are making me yearn for Edinburgh...

Is this the thread where I can yet again recount the camping holiday where I KIPped a slug into my jumper?

do tell darling!

Er....that's it. Camping, hairy wool, big needles, KIPping....you're slugged before you know it. I did spot it before actually putting it on!

Kind of Knit One Slug One, pass slug over

Had you been partaking of alcoholic drink??

I was 18 so it is not entirely impossible.

And then of course I became the sort of wimminly type who ostentatiously KIPs.

I have been known to k-i-p, but my technique is conspicuously peculiar and involves too many elbows.

My very first scarf was KIPped while in the waiting room of the Vasectomy clinic waiting for dh

It's now still fondly referred to as the vasectomy scarf...

re: pilot security - friend of mine was talking to a commercial pilot who claims that security took his water off of him. "Look, if I want to destroy this plane, I don't need any props."

I KIP regularly, whether at the soft play centre, on the bus/train, but most often at Starbucks on a Thursday night at Stitch n Bitch. I did get some funny looks at the soft play centre the other week when I was unravelling 1800 stitches of kidsilk haze mumbling obscenities under my breath though . I'm probably the type of KIP-er that gives other KIP-er's a bad name

CIP easier on crowded central london buses I find, and everyone so busy avoiding eye contact you can remain impervious to all and sundry and whatever they might think

just finished a baby blanket for friend's newborn, I call it the no. 68

(just like Cath Kidston mega expensive version which I discussed with someone on here recently too, though smaller, obviously. Well worth the pain of learning to C I say)

oh, I should say CIP on buses easier because less arm and elbow movement when squashed in a small seat with someone whose limbs it would be considered extremely impolite to brush against

i thought knitting needles were bnned on plaanes now?
WOULD BE A WONDERful way to pass a few hours or ten otherwise..