06.21.06
You Could Make A Puppet
That was the comment from a cute little girl who I talked to on the subway about my sock knitting.
Little Miss Cutie (maybe about five years old) walked onto the subway train, saw me and all my pointy sticks, and her eyes widened so big! She sat down (with her mother) and started talking to me. I turned off my music and pulled out my ear buds, ready for a kid chat. I learned that her abuela also knits but she only uses two needles. Abuela has knit for her two hats and a blanket when she was little.
I tried to explain why I was knitting with four needles. I told her I was knitting just like her abuela but I needed four needles so I could make something round, not flat. I knit a section so she could see how it worked. I held the sock next to my foot but I could see she still did not understand. So I put my hand through the sock. That is when she told me I could make a puppet. She was absolutely right, I could make a puppet, and Little Miss Cutie was in a puppet show and she told me all about it.
This encounter is one of the reasons why I like to knit in public.