scarf story

[lehser]

I've been wanting to tell this story for a while, but it's taken a while to get a good picture.  Many of you already know it.

This winter, I made a scarf (below) for catalpa92.  When it was done, he took it into work, hung it near his desk, and eventually suggested that people figure it out.  Many of his coworkers did, taking from a few seconds to minutes (or even longer) to get the answer.    It apparently took over an entire afternoon.  When I came to lunch there for the first time, a week later, I got a sense of it all.  My officemate impressed everyone nearby by getting it within a minute.  And someone I met in the lunchroom said, after a bit, "Are you the one who made the scarf?  You know that stock dip last week?  That was you."

 
Now, my elder child had fairly recently finished reading (and very much enjoying) a certain book (thanks again, saxikath!).  Upon hearing about all this, J was very excited and amused, and then became thoughtful.  He looked at us, and asked an excellent question,

"Does Winston Breen know Morse code?"  All we could say was that it's the sort of thing Winston Breen would know.  That it seemed likely.  More definitive answers are welcome.

 

Comments

[saxikath]

That's wonderful! I hope you don't mind -- I've passed a link to this entry on to the author.

[lehser.livejournal.com]

I'm delighted. Thank you.

[doctorhook.livejournal.com]

Very nice! You should put it on Ravelry --- the knitting Geeks will love it!

[lehser.livejournal.com]

Thanks. And a good thought.

Picture of my scarf hopefully coming soon.

BTW, happy birthday.

[doctorhook.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[jiapa.livejournal.com]

Heh. I looked at it and thought, "Could that be..." but I don't actually know the code, so I had to google to code to figure out that yes, it was.

*grin* Very clever.

[lehser.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I liked it. I had no idea if catalpa92 would actually accept/wear such a thing, but he actually quite appreciated the idea (and the result).

You'd've thought that *at* *his* *work* the colors etc would have been a massive clue (I did). But it still took some people a while.

Anyway, it was fun. It's the first in what seems to be a series of geek scarves (I got WAY too much of the yarn). Something geeky and slightly time-consuming to plan, where the knitting is basically just knit the whole time (no cool stitch patterns). Not usually my thing, but I wanted projects to do at social events, and simple knitting makes life much easier for that.

[caroleotter.livejournal.com]

Okay, I'm lost. Does he *work* there?

I must have missed a memo.

Lucky bastard, if he does!

[lehser.livejournal.com]

Yup, at the Cambridge/Boston office. Since August. Didn't much discuss it, I fear.

[doctorhook.livejournal.com]

Hey, there's a knitting cryptographers group on Ravelry now --- can I link to the picture? (With credit, of course.)

[lehser.livejournal.com]

Oh, sure. Why not?