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solution: I hope I get that flight attendant again, because I’ll be the lady knitting with pens, and there’ll be nothing she can say about it.
    5 things

THEY DON’T TAKE AWAY FROM
YOU IN AIRPORT SECURITY THAT
CAN REPLACE KNITTING NEEDLES
IN AN EMERGENCY

    1 Chopsticks
    2 Coffee stir sticks
    3 Pencils (pens too, but they are less good)
    4 Toothpicks (but you can only make very small things)
    5 The handles of wooden spoons (but you can only make big things)
    10 things
A KNITTER CAN DO ON AN
AIRPLANE INSTEAD OF KNITTING

    1 Drink or eat (a lot)
    2 Read about knitting
    3 Write about knitting in a knitting journal
    4 Look at yarn catalogs and plan knitting
    5 Talk to the people around you about knitting
    6 Ask to be sedated until you arrive at your destination and can be reunited with your knitting
    7 Crochet (sometimes the airlines are less threatened by hooks than needles; while I understand that crochet is not knitting, it at least has the yarn element, which can reduce withdrawal symptoms)
    8 Take a portable DVD player with you and watch instructional knitting DVDs
    9 Read a regular book (I think this would work; I see other people do it all the time)
    10 Try to knit anyway, seeing what sort of progress you can make with pencils and the cords from twenty-three airline headsets

the 10 th thing

Babies grow.
    I FEEL TERRIBLE POINTING OUT this simple truth that knitting has taught me, but I’ve seen so many knitters burned by it that I can hardly not. I thought it was obvious, but when I see knitters (myself included), acting like they have no idea of the cruel realities of baby expansion, I feel I would be remiss if I did not write it here. The considerable charm and diminutive size of babies makes them frequent targets for our knitted love — but babies don’t just grow, they grow fast. To add insult to knitterly injury, the smaller they are, the faster they grow. Therefore, please consider these significant points before casting on a wee layette to bestow on the next eight-pound human who crosses your path.
    â€¢ A human baby generally doubles its birth weight by six months and triples it by a year. This means that any sweater knit for a newbaby has a brief lifespan of usefulness. Babies grow fastest in their early months so the smaller the object, the less time it will be used. This may be discouraging to some knitters. Conduct your knitting accordingly.
    â€¢ Many babies, being non-knitters, feel strongly that hats, booties, and tiny mittens are a vile encumbrance. A baby seldom enjoys these garments as much as the adult who provides them. If you are the sort of knitter who really needs to see the recipient of your work enjoying your creations, you may be knitting up the wrong tree with babies. Most of them are willing to strangle themselves to remove an adorable bonnet or are willing to make a life goal of whipping booties off their feet and onto the floor.
    â€¢ Babies are, to put it as delicately as possible, leaky … If you’re going to be offended if someone leaks something smelly and staining onto your work, you may want to wait a little while before presenting your knitting to parents. The incidence of leaks in human young diminishes after a few years.
    â€¢ Even with the best warning available to humanity and all its experience and science, you will have no more than nine months notice to knit your gift. If you’re a slow knitter, you may want to knit something in a bigger size. Despite all attempts by billions of pregnant women, due dates remain nonnegotiable.
    If none of this bothers you, then you are one of us: the brave, the true, the knitters who in the face of all adversity, know their hard-won knits will be outgrown, flung, dirtied, and possibly underappreciated, but still look fondly upon these tiny people and think only that one item, so carefully handmade, deserves another … even if the recipient is going to puke on it.
    Knitting is still trying to teach