knitting sightings

I am to tired today to think of anything to write or knit but I thought it would be a good time to intriduce a feature that will be more or less regular. Just how much, it would depend...
I am a clothes maniac, and not only on me, but I constantly looking at what others wear...
Back in the eighties we had and used so many hand knitted items it was the height of the fashion, probaly partly because living in a socialist country, what you could get in a store was very limited. Making it gave a chance to wear something that would be remotely fashionable. Even if it was made out of sctachy acrylic yarn. Then in the nineties, I don't know what happened, more merchandise came in I guess, but we wouldn't touch handmade items (especially if they did looked handmade) with a ten foot pole. I still did crafts, but I stayed with crochet afgans, tablecloths, knitted lace doilies, quilts and such. An other ten years on many new stores opened like the chainstore, the french PROMOD whose merchandise I love love LOVE.. They do have some rather rustic looking stuff, inculding knits...which made me think again. I was like "How pretty... hmm...I can do that"... Oh I got sidetracked... I was talking about me looking at people's dresses (sometimes sitting on the metro I check on their feet too. I have yet to see a handknitted sock on somebody else than me), and ever so happy when I can spot a knitted item, which is not so rare (these cheap acrylic machine knits made in china do not make me want to go closer though), but occasionally I do spot a handkitted item. A few weeks ago I was sitting in a cafe with my Ravelry friend Dinara, and I saw a gorgeous grey tweed cabled cardi... on an italian woman. Still it was kind of hard to hold myself back and not stare openly, and not to go and ask, if it is really handknit, and did she made it or???
So.... Handknit sighting for today
As I was coming home from a bus I've seen an old(er) woman in a brown handknit poncho. It was knit in the modern way, from two rectangulars. It was knitted from a chunky yarn, with cables and it had fringes around the edges... In the last couple of years ponchos came back to fashion with a vehemence. If I wouldk have the time I would knit one for myself... maybe for the fall. For now my attention is on the butterfly, or the white thank top...