Knots Ahead

Denis receives an immediate reply:

Cripes Denis, that looks like finger knitting! Don't you have needles? How will it work as a hat?

Denis is pleased. Henriette has responded!

He replies: I plan to wind it round Ageless's head when it's finished.

She responds: But how will you know when it's finished?

He replies: Trial and error.

She answers: Have you ever tried to undo finger knitting?

He replies: No, is it tricky?

She answers: Knots.

Denis had not thought that far ahead. 

If he makes his string of loops too long, and has to undo it, and can't, due to knots, what then?

He does not reply for some minutes.

Henriette messages again: Why not try it on Ageless before it's too late?

Denis still does not reply. He is wondering whether to say he had already thought of that, or merely say thankyou...

When Henriette adds: Then you'll have a better idea where to locate the eyeholes.

Denis is becoming annoyed with her interfering suggestions.

It's nowhere near long enough yet, he replies.

And what happens when Ageless takes it off? asks Henriette.

Once it's his, that will be his problem, replies Denis.

He'll have to find somewhere to keep it, replies Henriette.

He will probably elect to keep it on, answers Denis. 

You should advise him to do that, says Henriette. Imagine him trying to wind it round his head all by himself. He'll never find the eyeholes.

I suppose ideally the various rounds should be stitched together, replies Denis.

Absolutely, replies Henriette. But how will you do it?

Weaving, says Denis. After finger knitting, weaving should be a doddle.

Remember you'll be working in the round,  which is harder, replies Henriette.

I shall remember, answers Denis. Now I must get on with it, or no hat will eventuate.

Of course, replies Henriette. Good luck DD.

Denis is delighted. She has remembered his last sign-off.

And they have had a full-on intellectual discussion.

He continues looping, steadily.