Saturday Sky & a Tale of KIP

Here is what the sky looked like in the St. Louis area this morning.




To go along with the pretty sky picture this week, I also have a different-from-normal tale to share regarding a conversation sparked by Knitting In Public.

Yesterday I was doing my usual KIP knitting-while-waiting-in-line thing as I was buying groceries at Sam's Club. A guy that was working there came up & asked me if I was making a sock.

*Blink, Blink*

"Well, Yes, it is a sock." (I'm not sure how I kept from adding, "However did you know?" Perhaps due to the surprise factor.)

I was pretty shocked that he recognized what it was, since all I had done was the cuff & an inch of stockinette.



Turns out his wife is a knitter, & also prefers metal DPNs for socks, just like I do. We talked for a couple minutes. It was cool to run into someone who wasn't actually a knitter but still recognized what I was doing.


The sock I was working on is one of my sets of "Santa Socks." Santa brought me this Kaffe Fassett Regia yarn in my stocking this past Christmas. Doesn't Santa know me well?