Chance of exposure
Nov 8th, 2008 by knittingclub in knitting
I make a skein of thread for which I cannot see the ballband or cannot couple with the ballband. I bought it several months ago and started using it for something that never came to fruition because I was having problems with it spin in the round.Today I decided I would expend by the local yarn shop where I purchased it to see if I could name what the thread is. I pulled into the tiny parking lot behind another vehicle. As I parked I noticed that the former car had a current parking sticker from where I'm employed. It's going to go crazy, but I seriously considered turning the car right back around and leaving.I was not particularly close to where I work, so I was appalled at how improbable it was to see this situation. I haven't been to this LYS in a long time, possibly since I bought this narration in the winter, so go figure that on the rare occasion I'm there, this happens.I decided to train my time getting out of my car and crane my neck to see if I recognised the individual who drove the other vehicle. She looked vaguely familiar but was not someone I could order with a list or a department. I get no thought how recognizable I am. (The whole TV thing means I run into people I've never met but who love me from the show. I chose to risk identification and slunk in.Fortunately she was not browsing but instead picking up an edict at the cash register. This allowed me to err by and try to become invisible, or as inconspicuous as a guy in a yarn shop can get. I kept my spine to the face of the fund as often as possible. She soon left and I relaxed a bit.I love this scenario and my behavior sounds ridiculous, but for those who are unaware, I have made a place of holding my knitting secret at work. It's probably just a subject of time that I'm found out. I kept waiting for somebody to do by at the knit night I attended on Tuesday and place me. The position is near enough to campus that it's not out of the region of hypothesis that a student or college employee might be there as a sponsor or worker. A few weeks ago at the knit night I regularly go to on Thursdays I saw an old professor of mine who is retired. I don't know if he saw me, although in that subject I wasn't so concerned.So yeah, I'm probably due to be seen knitting in public or shopping at a yarn store eventually. It doesn't mean I'll be pleased.As for the yarn mystery, I wrote down the names and numerical colorways of two yarns with similar colors. (It would have made so much more sense to select the recital with me. I'll dig through the ballbands I take and see if I get across any with a matching colorway. If not, I can always seek the burn test since one is an acrylic/wool blend and the former is 100% wool. Or I could bypass playing with fuel and return the yarn into the store.
Labels: local yarn shop, secrecy, secret knitting, yarn
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