I've taught myself how to do many things with the help of library books and Google. Minor plumbing, household repairs, computer upgrades, child-rearing (no family elders this side of the Rockies). But, I'm not much of a self-taught knitter. It tends to be too frustrating, so I rely on classes and workshops for advanced techniques. Plus they're fun.
However, while knitting a sock leg in the middle of a flight last week, I taught myself the Magic Loop. It's an approach to knitting with one circular needle for small diameter tube knitting, when the circumference of your tube is smaller than will actually fit around from point to point.
I won't describe the technique here, sparing you all. It always seemed too technical and fiddly, but while drinking the free wine from Alaska Air, I looked at my knitting and thought "what if I...?" And it worked! I wanted to shout "Eureka!" down the length of the plane, but held back and just smiled as I kept going around and around this never-ending sock...
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