More on knitting sticks...

I must not forget to mention that tied around her waist was a wooden fish, in the open mouth of which the end of one of her busy knitting needles rested. ––Paynter, A History of St. Ives 

Over the centuries people have come up with all kinds of strange knitting aids, knitting sticks being one of them. Some of these things have lasted, others, for one reason or another, have not. Knitting sticks were for the most industrious knitters, who'd slip their tool into a belt and roam the moors, needles always busy. The stick, which was sometimes shaped like a fish, and thus referred to as a knitting fish in St. Ives, held the working double pointed needle, freeing one hand and so making it easier to loop yarn across it. Most of the sticks were made of hardwood, though a sock tightly stuffed with straw could also do the trick. The sticks were mostly used in Britain, since they were most helpful for "English style" knitting. I knit "German," hooking the yarn with the needle, rather than looping the yarn across it with the fingers. In any case, according to Mary Wright, in Cornish Guernseys & Knit-frocks, a skilled stick user could knit up 200 stitches a minute. Maybe I ought to get me one of those just in case? 

This one isn't going anywhere soon. Maybe you should try...

...skiing instead? 

Or put on some boots and go by foot? 

Or maybe you should just stay home and knit something warm?
(Like this pair of woollen herringbone socks.)