Get Caught Crocheting!

[Montana Mommy]

Where's the most unique place you've crocheted or seen someone crocheting?

I spent a good portion of Saturday evening working on granny squares at the bowling alley while my husband bowled for his league night.

I've also crocheted while in the waiting room at my doctors office.

Even though I didn't get around to it, I had a hook and some cotton yarn in my bag at the hospital when my son was born. I was a bit too occupied, but I had tossed it in the bag months before thinking that if the labor was slow I may as well give it a try! Riiiiight! :rofl

[truelove730]

I love to crochet in the car, doesn't matter if hubby or I are driving - there is alway a hook nearby! It drives hubby crazy coz I can't go down the road without a hook and yarn. I will even do it at the stop light that I know will be long (when I am driving). I get some of the funniest looks. One time a passenger in a passing car hung his head out the window to see what I was doing. You get used to being stared at when you crochet. Everyone is interested.

[rebeccav]

heather, i do that too:eek2
i ALWAYS have something with me - i crochet everywhere i go!!

[MarvieN]

I've only started taking my crochet with me recently, like in the past few months. I crochet on the bus going from one base to the other, dr. waiting room, take my bag with me when we go to friend's houses for movies.... who knows where it'll end up lol. Drives hubby up a wall sometimes I think, but he's come to accept it as part of me lol right along with my cluttered desk, not putting things away consistently and all my other eccentricities *g*

[LanetteG]

I do it everywhere too! It drives my hubby nuts! He'll say can't you put that down for 5 minutes!
I'm sure he was thrilled last nite when we were sitting at the table with his parents, sister and her hubby, when I went and got the wrap I ws working on for the school auction. But he did go get a game to play and left me out of it, so I guess he couldn't say much!:loco
I take it while I wait for my daughtr to get out of school, dr appts, oil change(:p ) , lunch with my kids... I'm such a terrible mother.
But tonite my FIL did keep saying what a beautiful hat my daughter was wearing!:spina
Lanette:w-flake

[kariholtz]

I try to take something everywhere with me, you never know when you will end up waiting for long enough to crochet!

I even crocheted while getting teeth pulled!

[Yarnmistress]

I've been known to take yarn and hooks with me pretty much anywhere.... There is always something in my car. I'll even take it in to stores with me so if I am standing in line I can crochet. Movie theaters, doctors offices, friends homes, road trips, watching tv. I'll crochet anytime anyplace!

[Megananne3]

I used to crochet on airplanes. Flying makes me a little bit nervous. I haven't tried since 9/11 in case the hook would be confiscated as a deadly weapon. :<> Then I'd be left with a handful of yard to twiddle for 2 hours.

[Frangipani]

I ought to do what you gals do and take my crochet with me everywhere. I bet I would get a LOT more done that way!!

While waiting for my niece to be born, I crocheted and then taught my cousin how to crochet (in the waiting room) as well. It was a long labour!! :hyper

I may try it on the bus next time as it's 45 minutes to get into the city but I worry bout my motion sickness (like I can't read in cars).:U

Bec:cg

[Ambersafghans]

I have the same problem with cars. But I can sometimes get some work done. I crochet everywhere though.
Amber

[Empress Busy Bee]

When I was younger I took it everywhere.
In laws, fishing (I don't fish but the ex did), camping, doctor's, Ob/gyn, other appointments I had and knew I'd be waiting such as WIC, long drives.
I even took it to the movies a few years ago and I'm sure I'll do it again this year when we go see Star Wars since the wait is usually pretty long.

[crochetedmonkey]

I take my crocheting to work. I crochet on the way to work, and on the way back home (thanks to the local transit system). I crochet in front of the computer/tv at home. I crochet at my parents house. I've even crocheted at church one Sunday after the service.

Crocheted Monkey:P

[rsisland]

I try to crochet everywhere,but...everyone looks at me like I'm rude to crochet while they're talking.. Oh well


Robin :angry

[galalto]

Last night I crocheted through my husband's band concert. (He is a high school band director). I got some funny looks, but I got alot of work done!


Amber:cat

[Jessica36]

LOL add me to the car crochet band wagon. I have gotten to the point that I can do it and drive in bad traffic :eek , you know drive 2 feet stop for 1 minute, drive 2 feet I am sure the truck drivers love me, but I have a 100 mile round trip drive to work.

I bring my crochet with everytime I have to take Zach to Children's Memorial in Chicago. When the grandfather's are there, other people's, they always say, My mom used to do that too!

I bring it pretty much everywhere!

[kvinna]

I crochet in my doctor's office sometimes and I have been seen crocheting in line for a movie, as well in the theater while waiting for it to start. :)
I have also crocheted at work.

When I crochet in public, people always come up to me and ask me what I am making and then proceed to tell me about what they are doing, or that they used to crochet with their aunt or grandmother. They get this far-off look and smile as they remember the good times they had. It's pretty neat.

[wrenlover]

I crochet in the car while my daughter takes guitar lessons. I have had people stare at me when they park next to me, cause my hands are a going and they can't really see what I am doing. It is comical to see people rubbernecking to see. I usually bring a small project like a dishcloth or something so I can actually get it done in the 1/2 hour I have. I have to bring my crochet when I know I'll be sitting. I feel "Lazy" if I don't.:hook

Lisa

[diamond]

Always at the doctor's office. But I've been known to crochet sitting on the beach and on our boat! After a day of each, you definately have to wash whatever it was you were working on. I also always carry a tote bag where ever I go, you never know when a drawbridge will raise and/or get stuck in the upright position. :knit

[Kimberly]

I am relatively new to Crocheting (3 months now) but during this time I have hit the range of places - various waiting areas, the bus/metro/tram to work (its an adventure every day), 4 :plane airplane rides - I have been using a G hook and usually store it with my pens in my purse - my thought reasoning is that I could do more damage with a pen or sharpened pencil than my hook! I have also done Cross-Stitch on the plane! I've had tons of positive comments from the flight staff (including the pilot) on my work and no one has said anything on it yet - nor has security stopped me in the check for it!

The one place that takes the cake - Disney World!

I'm a nut, I know :blush - but what else is there to do when you are in line for up to an hour at a time? I brought enough yarn to finish several small squares for the darn afghan I am working on - it helps though that I have a purse that holds everything and the kitchen sink with enough room leftover for a washmachine for felting! :D

Cheers!

[PJ]

Saturday I crocheted while standing in line at the bank. It was a pretty short line, but I got a few rounds done! Then the teller asked me what I was "knitting," LOL.

[Marla]

I worked on my coming home poncho while waiting for a table at Cracker Barrel. Almost fell over when someone actually asked what I was crocheting instead of what was I knitting. :eek

[topperarnold]

I try to crochet everywhere,but...everyone looks at me like I'm rude to crochet while they're talking.. Oh well


That's happened to me, too. I'm getting to where I just ignore the looks. If I'm not crocheting, I'm probably paying less attention 'cause I'm thinking about crocheting and not what the person is saying! :lol

Sara

[thecrochetdude]

I don't crochet in public often (Houston doesn't seem ready for it just yet :think ) but once the manager of the apartment I lived in downtown (The Rice, in case anyone is familiar with Houston) wouldn't come and change the battery in my smoke detector. I lost two nights of sleep listening to that thing beep every 2 minutes. They kept saying it was too high up and they didn't have a ladder that tall. (Duh, like I would have one that tall? Sheesh). Anywho, I staged a crochet-in in their main office. I took a big bag of crochet stuff and spread it all out right where they received their potential new residents and crocheted away. I told them I wouldn't leave until the battery was changed! LOL I even took a cooler with lunch in it. But alas, they were able to find a ladder and change the battery within a half hour. Magic!:tryme

[Donna]

But alas, they were able to find a ladder and change the battery within a half hour. Magic!:tryme That is too funny, Drew! :rofl

[xantha]

I told them I wouldn't leave until the battery was changed! LOL I even took a cooler with lunch in it. But alas, they were able to find a ladder and change the battery within a half hour. Magic!:tryme

:rofl

I'll keep that in mind next time I have to stage a sit-in... That's great!

[PJ]

That's fabulous!! Hubster is having trouble with his bank...perhaps we'll try that! Any North Texans wanna join? :yay

[CatsCradleCreations]

Like most of you, I take my hooks and yarn almost everywhere! I crochet at the dr's office (waiting room & exam room while waiting for the dr), dentist's office, vet's office, in the car on long trips~~my crochet bag takes up more room than my clothing bag :eek~~my mom's house, the hospital, to birthday parties...

Last birthday party I went to was at an indoor pool. My aunt and I were using the same color yarn, working side by side on two different projects. It was too cool.

As for the strangest time/place, try this one on for size: I was working on a Christening blanket while I was in labor with my 2 year-old son! Talk about distraction from the pain. :D

[Carol]

Dude, I will definitely take my crocheting and sit-in the next time I have a dispute with somebody like that. That's funny.

I made my first doily when my Mom was being treated for breast cancer. Every day for weeks, she had to be somewhere for some treatment, so I crocheted in the waiting rooms. I think of it as my "cancer doily," altho I know that might sound disrespectful to some people; I don't mean it that way. (She's doing very well now.)

I was crocheting in an airport on Sunday, and another crocheter sat down next to me to help me untangle some yarn. (It was one of those pull skeins that's nothing but huge knots. Argh.)

But I guess the ultimate for me was that I finished a shawl in my hospital bed the morning after my daughter was born. Good thing, too, because it would have been years before I'd have finished it, and besides, it came in really handy when you get up in the night to nurse babies. I'm still wearing it, even tho the kids are in their 20's now; it's getting so ratty that DH hinted the other day that perhaps I'd like to make myself a new one. I just can't seem to give it up, though.

Carol

[InStitches52]

Drew's story remined me of the first time I took my crocheting with me to work thirty something years ago......

I worked in a manuals department where my job was page layout. I cut and pasted the text to blank pages in preparation for printing. This was in the old days before computers. :D My job was dependent on the typesetters getting me the needed text. I had hit a lull where I was all caught up and the typesetters would not release any text because there were corrections to be made.

I kept busy on day one by cleaning my work area and on day two I even resorted to cleaning the wax machine :yuck , but by the end of the day I had no more busy work and was bored out of my mind. So on day three I took my crocheting and sat at my desk in the middle of a very busy office and happily crocheted away. :knit

Less than an hour into my day the head of the department came thru and asked what I was doing. I told him I refused to sit around with nothing to do any longer and planned to crochet until the typesetters released text.

Long story short, within minutes I had plenty of work. After that my crocheting at work was strictly limited to coffee breaks. :lol

[YaYa Yarnhood]

I take my crochet along to my kids activites. I crochet at my daughter's soccer practice, when I take them to the park, in the car while I wait for them to get out of piano lessons, at the bowling alley during a b-day party once. Definitely good for passing the time and also a good ice breaker for getting to know some other moms. They like to come over and figure out what I might be making!

[chickpea67]

The hubby has forbidden me to take my crochet to parties, or even over to friend's houses where we're watching a football game.--But if he did I might be able to get some of them into it! And then I can have someone to call with questions- or shop for yarn with!


*L* But I AM able to get away with taking it in the car on the long trips to either or our parent's houses.

[kittylou]

I try to remember to take something to crochet whenever I might be waiting around - dentist, doctor, waiting for my daughter to finish basketball practice, at a restaurant while we're waiting for the food to arrive. I have even taken it to basketball games to crochet during warm-up and half-time. Definitely on airplanes! I hate getting somewhere and then realizing I'm going to be sitting around doing nothing and not having something to work on. My husband thinks I'm a freak, but in a good way:eek

[DesertCrocheter]

Well, went public for the first time yesterday. :)

My students were taking their final exam (the semester is over as soon as I grade them! Yea!!) and they had 2.5 hours to do so. Well, thought me, that would be a great opportunity to get quite a bit done on my sis's sunshine lace afghan. Not only did I get something like 8 or 10 rows done, for the first time all spring they finally put the a/c on. That room has been like a sauna all semester, so I was wearing lighter clothes and I was freezing last night. Not with that afghan on my lap! :lol

One of my students stopped to talk after she turned in her exam because she crochets, too--afghans and slippers. And she's only about 23 or 25.

Patty

[Harvestar]

Oh, I bring my crocheting a lot of places. I spend lots of time in airports (for myself and waiting for others), so I bring it then. I've never had a problem with any of my hooks. I do make sure not to bring any scissors, and only cut the yarn when I get to where I'm going. I also have the large plastic Yarn-A-Round knitting wheel and take that to the telescope, to our role playing group (hey, we're sitting around for 4 hours, I'm going to keep my hands busy!). I've also brought crocheting to work for long talks and such, though some people make comments (but I think it's far less rude than falling asleep or reading a paper).

My fiance never complains, he usually has projects of his own that he's crocheting. :D He also brings a book with him EVERYWHERE so he can read if he's waiting for me or riding in the car.

I've gotten into some great conversations on airplanes by crocheting. One lady was knitting a girl's sundress and another one was knitting her first project (and was just a cool person to chat with). And while waiting for a flight there was a group of professorial types knitting (guy was teaching a woman) and we talked about our projects. :) I saw them on the flight back too which was cool. :D

Patty, that's very cool! :) What do you teach?

[DesertCrocheter]

Harvester, I was teaching Anthro 453A at UA South in Sierra Vista. It was a totally different kind of class for that campus, and even though the students said it was overwhelming, they worked their tuchuses off and did just fine. They are offering the second half of the course in the fall, so hopefully it will have enough enrollment to go. The 1.5 hour commute each way is a bear, especially since I have a regular fulltime job on top of it, but I couldn't pass up the opportunity for a recent teaching job on my cv (especially in this economic climate)...just in case.... Can you tell I'm a worrier?

Patty

[Harvestar]

That's very cool! :) And I understand about wanting to have as much experience as possible nowdays.

[Captain Hook]

I recently went to a local music festival and street fair with someone else. There were two concerts I wasn't interested in that she wanted to see, and there was a very tiny park-like area accross the street from that particular stage. Both times I went and plunked myself on the grass in the shade and worked on a tunisian thread wristband (which was great because it was so small and portable). At the one concert we both wanted to see, we sat back to back on the grass in front of that stage and I crocheted. After a while, I had to frog a few rows and as I pulled, the thread came into her field of view, and she said "I didn't know you were crocheting!" I got stared at all darn day, too. People were very curious about what the heck I was doing.

When I first learned to crochet, I crocheted at school in class one time. AVID was an all-grades college prep course, and I was crocheting part of my French project. Another girl, who was a popular senior (I was a freshman) was doing counted cross stitch as part of her senior project, and she worked on it in class, which emboldened me. AVID usually turns into study hall when nothing is going on, so I pulled out a book and read and crocheted at the same time. My teacher had a terrible temper, and she went on a rant at several people, and then she started on me, telling me to stop "knitting" and put it away. I gave her a dirty look and did so. I few minutes later, once she had cooled down, I walked to her desk and informed her that a) it was crochet and b) it was for my French project (which, as school work, means it was perfectly allowable). She was very sheepish and quietly agreed. :D The hook is mightier than the sword!

[Janie]

Well, I have to say, I've crocheted just about everywhere with the exception of in church! One of the things I love about crochet is that it is so portable. Over the years it's helped to save my sanity while spending long hours at a loved ones' bedside in a hospital and crochet has actually made hanging out in the Doc's waiting room kind of pleasant! Gotta love it, I say, "Have hook, will travel." That reminds me: I like to crochet on those long car trips with DH, he does the driving, I do the stitching!

[NancyCA]

I take my crocheting with me more than my xstitching. It's more versatile and you only have yarn and hook to worry about most of the time!


I take it with me wherever I know that I'll have more than 10 minutes of waiting time.

[CrochetinClara]

Before I started crocheting, I had seen a woman in the waiting room at a doc's office going to town with hook and yarn. And I thought, 'gee..if I knew how to do that, I would be sitting here doing that instead of falling asleep, or listening to the man in the corner snore..' Of course I had always wanted to learn, that was my little push to go to the store and get a 'how to' book.

I pretty much do it everywhere I know I'm going to have to wait for a long period of time (DOCTOR's OFFICE!!!!) and on the trips to Children's hospital when Caden has to have the many tests done. They are never in a hurry about anything, so I have gotten alot done waiting there. Plus it helps keep my mind off wondering if something is wrong, he has spinia bifida, not even 2 years old and has been in and out of the hospital for so many things....<sigh> .

I have caught truck drivers looking down in the van while I work away...lol. Hubby always drives over to Pittsburgh, and I will drive home. It's comical!

Can you believe there have even been times at the movie theater when I wished I had brought it with me! Seeing how they show 15 minutes of advertisements before the movie...I could have gotten a few rows done!

[dixieredhead]

I crochetedon our road trip this weekend. While the kids played in the pool I was crocheting and talking to another lady about crocheting. One time I had went fishing with hubby, being bored out of my skull I found a spool of thread in his SUV, and was so pent up to crochet I fashioned a make-shift hook out of a wire clothes hanger. LOL. it actually worked pretty well too!

[knuckles]

I take my crochet bag everywhere with me. I hate waiting and it keeps my hands busy.

Probably the weirdest place though is a local bar that I sometimes go into to have a glass of wine on the weekend. My husband died little over a year ago and there is no way I'm ready to start dating yet (if ever). But this place knew both of us and so when I need to get away from the kids..... The bartenders are really nice and always ask what project I'm working on. the other customers too.

[Terri/LadySorce]

My husband is a Vet, so on his days when he has appointments, I bring along a tote with what-ever I am currently working on. If anyone knows the VA, you know you will be there for HOURS.
Someone always asks me what I am working on. The older ladies will sometimes tell me about how their grandmom/mom/aunt/cousin would sit and crochet for hours too. I love hearing stories like that. It warms my heart :)

[kazily]

Gotta love it, I say, "Have hook, will travel." That reminds me: I like to crochet on those long car trips with DH, he does the driving, I do the stitching!

I love that quote! Can I borrow it for a blinkie quote? :hook

I bring my crochet bag with me whenever I think I might be waiting for 10 min or more. Any less than that & I pass on it because I don't want to stop in 5 minutes. :P I need to make up a bag just to store in my minivan in case those times pop up unexpected.

[crochet mama]

I have a large tote bag that has my bible and a notebook in it. I cram whatever WIP I may have and my box which has my hook, scissors, and needles in it. I take it with me anytime I go out as I never know when I'll be able to work on my WIP. ;)

[Piper0110]

I've definitely crochetted in traffic before. I'm always tempted to take my stuff with me to the movies - lots of time, I crochet entirely by feel, so it wouldn't be hard at all. But I feel I might get strange looks.

I used to take crochet with me everywhere. Doctor's office, dentist, coffee shops, movie nights with friends... Once I started law school, though, the crochet got replaced with law books (except for during movies, of course!).

[Stephanie]

I live in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area for decades and have crocheted just about everywhere. Do you know, I have NEVER seen anybody else crochet or knit in public? Airports, busses, doctor's offices (and I've been in many as I chauffer two medically fragile relatives several times a month). This is supposed to be one of the 'craftiest' areas in the country, yet I never see this. Weird. It's not that I don't meet others who knit/crochet. They always comment on whatever I am working on. It's just nobody does it in public, which is surprising as the selection of magazines in doctor's offices is very poor these days.

My personal strangest area to crochet was in the Metrodome during Twins games. I can finish a washcloth by the 7th inning (bottom of 8th if I get a beer).

Stephanie
Who crocheted through Montana while on the Amtrak Train a decade ago.

[magdiego]

I've been doing a lot of crochet at softball and basketball games and practices, which probably isn't that weird. But I've also been crocheting while waiting in the car to pick up my son at school. There's always a big line to get into the parking lot, so I'll be sitting in this traffic jam crocheting like mad!

Mary

[LibiLou]

While I've only been crocheting for a while, I have been knitting longer. I knit and crochet anywhere. I have an angel bag that has my Bible, a notebook, pens and pencils and whatever project or two I'm working on that's portable. Today, I have an open shell baby blanket (my first big crochet project) and a knitted washcloth.

I've been seen crocheting in line, in the car (not driving) at the mall, dr's office, dentist's office, my volunteer "job" and at church. Pastor picked on me at first, but I informed him that 90% of everything I make goes to charity and he left me alone. I also pay attention better if I'm doing something with my hands.

[dhaunae]

Even though I didn't get around to it, I had a hook and some cotton yarn in my bag at the hospital when my son was born. I was a bit too occupied, but I had tossed it in the bag months before thinking that if the labor was slow I may as well give it a try! Riiiiight! :rofl
HA, another one! I finished my son's blanket while in the labor room; it actually helped calm me down I think. He was premie and I was freaked out, and for some weird reason I convinced myself that if I just finished his blanket before he was born it would all be ok. I crocheted through pains, through examinations, you name it, I was a woman with a mission ... and y'know, I finished the blanket, he was born, and everything was fine. The power of positive thinking I guess :D

Other than that, let's see .. anywhere I have to sit and wait. Airports, on planes, long car trips, doctor's office, vet's office, sitting in line at the drive-thru when it's taking forever, if I have to wait I'm going to pull out something to twiddle with.

[CatsCradleCreations]

I've got a new place that I take crochet projects along: one of my university courses! :eek I have a REALLY boring class, so on the days I don't feel like taking notes (because I can easily get to them on the web), I take a hook and yarn or thread with me. It's a two hour class, so you can just imagine how much I can actually get done! :blush

In fact, that's how my Super-Sized Bath Puff and a pattern I'm working on now got started! (I don't have room in my purse for patterns, so I just throw the hook and fiber in my purse and write out anything that I feel is worth keeping and passing on!) :devil

[zeropixie]

Before I got my dryer I would crochet at the laundry mat.:)

[Earth Angel]

I used to crochet at the ice rink while I was supposed to be watching my then-boyfriend's hockey games. lol I love the NHL but those highschool games are sooooo slow to watch sometimes! Wish the NHL would come back already *pouts* oh well. All respect for the players is now lost, and I will never again enjoy an NHL game the way I used to.....

[xantha]

I used to crochet at the ice rink while I was supposed to be watching my then-boyfriend's hockey games. lol I love the NHL but those highschool games are sooooo slow to watch sometimes! Wish the NHL would come back already *pouts* oh well. All respect for the players is now lost, and I will never again enjoy an NHL game the way I used to.....

awww. I've lost more respect for the owners than the players. But I keep my season tickets... I just hope we have a season next year.

I can't crochet at a rink, even at the USHL, college, WHL games I was way too involved to work with yarn and a hook! :)