I’m learning the magic loop method of knitting. It’s a way to knit a circle with only one long circular needle. I wanted to learn this method because when I knit a sock with two circular needles, 4 needles is a lot to have dangling around a sock. So I thought I’d give it a try. I won’t discuss how I left a 2 hour class with only 56 cast-on stitches. But look! Progress! Now let’s see if they’ll let me on the plane with it (that’s right, I’m going somewhere this weekend). I didn’t have to report to jury duty yesterday to see if they’d let me in the courtroom wielding the needles. I thought that would be a fun experiment. Anyone ever successfully knit during jury duty? That would be one way to combat the waste-o time-o listening to everyone’s excuses. I did that once before. “I’m sorry, sir, just because you’ve been in a car accident, doesn’t mean you are prejudiced against a car accident case.” Actually, they’re calling it “jury service” now. I wonder why the change.