I used to take my knitting to church meetings, and eventually the minister told
me that I never had to speak at the meetings, - he knew how I felt about an
issue by watching my knitting.  If I agreed with what was being said, I knitted
calmly and fluently.  However, if I disagreed, I knitted more violently and
quicker, and he could judge my degree of opposition by just how violent and
quick I moved the needles!!

Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia)
Bridget Marrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

It is known that Mary Queen of Scots was a skilled needlewoman, some of her
needlepoiunt embroideries still exist, and she also made Lacis, but it is
unlikely that she herself made bobbin lace. 
There's a lovely story of her annoying her Council (all men, natch) by 
working at her embroidery during Council Meetings. They found it (and her) 
most distracting. It's as if Maggie Thatcher had taken her knitting into 
the House of Commons!


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