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By: malinda

malinda — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 19:18:04 +0000

my crafting in public has led to many conversations about craft. I almost always carry knitting, crochet, or embroidery with me when I ride the train in LA (which is everyday) and DON’T take my bike. People usually ask me how I come up with my designs – an easy answer is that I make them up as I go along. It hasn’t made me any new friends, but it does keep the ride from being boring.

I’m actually kind of an antisocial public crafter – I put on my headphones and concentrate on my work unless some one talks to me. I only tolerate people staring at what I’m doing.

The stolen time that normally would be spent staring at the tunnel walls going by is so much more productive than trying to craft while watching TV.

By: Rachelle Nicolette

Rachelle Nicolette — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 16:40:25 +0000

Whenever I was living in NYC, it was a given that I would have a project lurking in my purse. With all the waiting around on the subway platform, sitting (if I was lucky) for my 15 minute commute to work, I really needed to be able to calm down with knitting or embroidering.

The only comment that anyone has ever made to me was when I was sick of being cooped up in my shoebox of a room and I went to happy hour with my knitting. I was sitting there, a beer and my Stitch and Bitch book on the table in front of me, and some curious patrons asked me what I was making. It was actually really sweet.

By: futuregirl

futuregirl — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 15:36:30 +0000

Thank you all for such insightful, funny, and interesting comments! Yes, that is me in the picture. While I crochet in the park, my husband is busy taking photos of everything, including me. :)

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 00:36:21 +0000

These mini segments of time I spend crafting in public have become most essential to me. There are weeks, often a couple of weeks in a row, I would have to declare as weeks without any possibility to craft… yet I do manage to make things in these times by using every moment I spend on a train, the playgound or wherever I have to wait for something. It’s amazing how much time there is that normally would just disappear into nothing.
Loved reading your article.

By: Becky Preston

Becky Preston — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 01:53:35 +0000

I hand-piece a lot, right now a tumbling blocks quilt. Someone commented that it is slower by the hour, but faster by the week. I find that a good needle threader makes up for the lack of good scissors on a plane.

By: sooz

sooz — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 01:01:30 +0000

I love stolen projects! It is one of my main motivations to returning to knitting and taking up crochet after many years of primarily garment sewing. I love the portability, the way otherwise wasted time becomes a joy. And I always get lots of comments on the tram. And once when I was pregnant a lovely woman procured a seat for me by jabbing a young man and saying ‘give a seat to the knitting lady’ and as I hadn’t actually produced my knitting yet I realised she had been watching me from previous trips and knew me as the lady who knits. I’ve had teenage girls with chins on the floor watching me produce amigurumi toys who had never seen crochet done and a couple of German backpackers who chatted for half an hour about the meaning of handcrafting in a modern world. I remember reading a blog post by someone detailing an unexpected and lengthy trip to the hospital who finished by saying the biggest tragedy of the whole experience was that she had been caught without her knitting. Hear hear!

By: daniel

daniel — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 19:02:33 +0000

I knit most days my commute to and from work (It’s about 45 minutes each way) and have lately gotten really good at balancing no-hands on the subway so I can keep crafting even when it’s crowded. sometimes it bugs me that (especially for me as a knitting-boy) crafting in public breaks the no-talking-to-strangers rule on the subway, but every now and then the people I meet or the props I get really make my day.

By: Valerie

Valerie — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 14:13:49 +0000

I always cart handsewing or needle-felting along with me, and do get a lot of questions, especially with the needle-felting (“I’m sorry, but I have to ask: what are you doing?”), but never quite thought about it as craft proselyting. I loved your little essay! And am happy to report that I am getting converts: after a not-shy 10 year old felted a bird with me last week, I’m bringing supplies for everyone to my daughters’ dance class tomorrow: all the waiting moms and grandmas have agreed to try it, too.

I wonder if I could bring felting needles on the plane; they’re deadly little numbers…

By: Kate

Kate — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 13:43:15 +0000

I don’t usually get any comments when I craft in public but in the breakroom at work I can barely get a stitch done before I’m interrupted.

I never know if I should be flattered by the attention of annoyed at the lack of time I have to finish what I’m working on. :)