Favorite Places to Knit and Friday Floating Home

As the weather is turning colder and more hands are picking up knitting, I pondered what were the favorite places where people like to knit. A Google search and a journey through some knitting forums yielded the following information.

The usual places people like to knit:

• Sunrooms and screenporches
• Near fireplaces or windows
• In one's favorite chair (one forum writer calls her beautiful chair the Knitting Throne)
• Coffee shops, book stores, libraries, or yarn shops with comfy chairs
• In cars, on trains, or on airplanes
• In theatres, hotel lobbies, sports stadiums, or the local pub
• Scenic or tranquil outdoor locations

Special events:

• Sporting events
• Business or church conferences
• Business meetings
• While stuck on the freeway in a traffic jam

Good to have nearby:

• Spouses
• Cats
• Other knitters
• Favorite beverage and/or non-sticky finger food
• Knitting supplies and stash
• TV, DVD Player, VCR, or computer
• A waiter

Unusual places or situations:

• One clever knitter taught herself to knit while also doing the grocery shopping.
• The same woman knit while waiting in line for a carnival ride and also knit during the rides.
• Quite a few people could knit while walking.
  
• One woman like to knit in hotel lobbies, whether she was staying there or not.
• One forum writer loved to knit while traveling around in the cab of her trucker husband's rig.
• One dedicated woman knits in the swimming pool while sitting in a floating pool chair.
• One curious writer said she liked to knit while sitting on the "coach". Now there's an untried idea.

All this research made me ask myself: If I could be knitting anywhere today, where would I want it to be? A houseboat came to mind immediately. (Probably because I've been so busy lately that I haven't much relaxed, and houseboats are so relaxing.)

My next thought was that I hadn't done a Friday Floating Home post for a while. So here's my fantasy for today: sitting and knitting on board a floating home on the Thames with a hot cup of chai tea and some classical music in the background. It's an overcast day with a chance of rain, but there's a fire in the woodstove.

Houseboats on the Thames, Upstream of Hampton Court - by Jim Lynwood

What's would be your happy Friday?