WOW

This past weekend, I started and finished my first hat. It was an exhilarating experience, and one that I'm sure I'll be delving into again and again. . .and again.
I am certain that I prefer to make flat hats and just loop through at the end.
Why bother with circulars?
Of course there's that annoying transportation issue with straight needles (ruin my purse's lining or not?) that can be easliy avoided with circulars, which I've found generally don't have as much of the deathly point as do some straight needles.
I have admittedly been less than cautious with my knitting needles some days on the train and in big crowds. They usually do the trick of getting people out of my way.
But alas, I digress.

The hat. I made it from this blue (not so great) yarn from which I had made a baby's blanket last year.
On the train as I was ribbing (such wonderful verbs in the knitting world) during one of the standard delays in New York City transit history, I found myself the object of not one man's attention, but TWO men. And I think at least one of them was straight. I'm just not so sure about the other one (though he was definitely the cuter of the two. . .there might be a reason.)
The I'm-not-sure-if-he's-straight one spoke the words (after I boldly looked up with such innocence in my eyes as a fawn under survey by wiley hunters (teeheehee)) "it's hypnotizing" which led me to ask myself "do straight men use the word hypnotizing when not trying to woo a woman?"

Who knows these answers?
What I do indeed know (in addition to the fact that I am not having a baby boy--or a baby at all, in response to another question I received on the train) is that the making of my first hat, though tedious, was indeed a wonderful wowing experience. And one that I hope you will all shoulder (or handle. . .) sometime in the near future.
Knitting off,
Earthy bka Arin