Comments on: oh baby

By: Brooke

Brooke — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 21:01:02 +0000

Your socks sound very interesting. That heel shaping really gets around!

By: MeBeth

MeBeth — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 15:13:44 +0000

I love my new little Mac too, and I was thinking of knitting it a felted cover. (It already has a sporty red neoprene, but it probably needs something warm for winter, right?)

By: Lolly

Lolly — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 10:48:44 +0000

Those felted laptop totes are SO cute - go for it! I think that the Manos will be perfect for it too ;) Can’t wait to see.

I knit in public all of the time and always get stares. Few have asked, and when they do, they wanna know all about it. Pretty funny. One time, a teenage boy was asking me all sorts of things! I was so surprised by his interest!

Thank you for joining Socktoberfest! I can’t wait!

By: Meg

Meg — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 23:28:27 +0000

I was going to say what Annie said- I’ve been meaning to do a felted laptop bag from the AlterKnits pattern that was reprinted in Interweave for ages now. Mac books are so perfect, a little fuzz won’t hurt ‘em!
I often knit in public and rarely get comments. I also do a lot of origami folding in public and have never gotten a comment! Earlier this week on the train, I was working on a Pomatomus sock (yes, me too!) and a little girl of about 4 said (in that loud 4 y.o. way) “That lady’s knitting, daddy!” as if it was the most wondrous thing to see. I gave them a beaming smile, nearly jumping up to congratulate the father on the excellent education his daughter is obviously receiving!

By: Annie

Annie — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 21:39:56 +0000

No worries on the felting for a laptop. I made one for my mac and I love it. AlterKnits has great felted computer bags, super easy and really nice looking. Interweave Knits also published the pattern….sometime last year….

By: Amy

Amy — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 21:39:54 +0000

I don’t know about the fuzz issue and computers, but I’ve seen quite a few patterns for felted covers. I would take that to mean that it isn’t a problem.

Amy

By: Liz K

Liz K — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 19:24:16 +0000

Enough with the knitting…how was Pod?

By: Trillian42

Trillian42 — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 18:35:26 +0000

I knit in public all the time - Yay DC Metro! I get questions sometimes, but it’s generally friendly ones.

FWIW, hubby has carried his laptop in a felted Satchel off and on for a year now, and he hasn’t had any fuzz issues.

By: Arleta

Arleta — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 18:31:14 +0000

I get questions and comments all of the time, when I knit in public. The only not so nice ones have come from the inlaws. I have to say I love the photo shoot for the tie you knit. Great pics!

By: Jodie

Jodie — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 18:15:21 +0000

If you keep knitting in public you’ll get questions. I’m always knitting in public, and I get questions almost every time. It’s bound to happen at some point. Enjoy the new laptop! I’ll be doing Socktoberfest too.

I also started the Zokni socks, but the yarn was too varigated for the pattern. I want to find some yarn that really does the pattern justice, so no socks yet.