What do you think, a sweater?

At the pool this past weekend while one child was having their swimming lesson and the other was cuddled up to me waiting for their turn I sat in the lounge next to the pool, knitting away at the cat sling. I was knitting on the round (my favourite) and piecing together some very bright leftover scraps from my yarn stash and playing around with a variety of stitch patterns and effects.

Out of the corner of my eye I could see a sweet little girl from another family in an obviously homemade sweater running around and waiting for her turn, too.

The little girl's dad was sitting nearby, and kept watching me knit when he thought I wasn't looking. Then the little girl in the sweater climbed into her dad's lap to cuddle.

"What do you think?" he said to his daughter, "Is that a hat or a sweater" and he nodded toward my knitting.

"A sweater" said the girl.

I looked up "It's a cat sling" I said, thinking they'd be intrigued.

"A whaaa...?" said the dad.

"A cat sling" I smiled.

He promptly turned his back on me, and that was the end of our conversation.

Well. I guess I'm too weird for them, but I am left wondering who made the sweater the little girl was wearing. Maybe he did?

A knitting Dad would be cool. I would have liked to talk to another knitter, regardless.

Despite the negative reaction, I'm still working on the cat sling. Even if it's a weird project ... it's needed... and it's turning out cute. I'm having fun experimenting with cables, different stitch patterns and colour.

But maybe I'll stick to knitting sweaters, in public. :-)