Getting the Franklin habit

I went to hear The Panopticon - AKA Franklin Habit - speak at IKnit last night. He read from his book and was very, very funny. Such excellent deadpan humour.





Sadly I had no opportunity to ask my burning question of what happened to The Panopticon's knitting student, Willibald. I've always wondered whether there is a man in Chicago clad entirely in grey purled garter stitch garments, and whether he's having fun yet.

I was sorry to see that the evening was a missed sales opportunity for Franklin H as there were hardly any spare copies of the book available. Never mind. I did get to talk to someone who was taught to knit by an elderly woman in Italy who believed circular needles were a form of garotte, and to someone whose brains I could pick about simultaneously knitting two socks on one circular needle. A cure for my Second Sock Syndrome, perhaps?

How many??

2500 entries... and I suspect that was a fraction of the people who might have entered had they not been working, distracted, knitting, travelling, sleeping, stroking yarn, and anything else that readers of Knitting Daily do. The winning entry did make me laugh, though.

Franklin Habit is coming to London very soon. Unfortunately it sounds as if he won't be bringing his 1000 Knitters photography project, which has to stay in Chicago.

It seems that the one-thousand-different-gauges-scarf has now grown to enormous proportions and would take up most of his luggage allowance. I guess it comes down to a choice of giant scarf or clothes. He could always wear just the scarf.