I haven't stopped but yeah, people talk to me a hell of a lot more when I'm knitting. Sometimes it's just the odd "Wow, I've never seen a guy knitting", sometimes it's a full attempt at conversation.

I did a course over the summer where I wasn't particularly interested in "hanging out" with my classmates - so at lunch I'd pick a table in the far corner, put on my headphones, and knit. And every single time I'd get people coming over and asking what I was working on, what else I made, who taught me, and to go on about how they couldn't possibly learn that. (Which baffles me - if I've just said that I taught myself out of a book as a kid, how stupid to people think they are if they think they couldn't be taught as adults?)