Sunday, November 22, 2015

A Knitter's Dream




I had a family funeral to attend on Thursday in Oklahoma City for my mother's brother, a kind and loving man who had the gentlest heart. God rest his soul.

I expected to have a half-day of airline flights, at least 9 hours in the car, and another half-day of flying in which to knit all this yarn. I was totally prepared for hours and hours of sitting!

Unfortunately, I always forget that I'm not a super-speedy knitter, and FB is more attractive than it should be. I expected to finish the purple mitts in a couple of hours, but I think I ripped out a couple of inches TWICE. Gave up on that and decided to start the brown shawl with my hand spun. That was going well, but required too much pattern reading for the car. As you can see, I didn't get anywhere close to finishing that travel-stash. j

I better spend a little more time thinking about projects and planning before I make any holiday road trips!

5 comments:

  1. at least you were prepared!!! (I've found myself too often on the other end....not bringing enough, and stewing and fidgeting with all that empty free time. NOT FUN!!!)
    sorry about the loss of your uncle....circle of life, but still hard at any age.

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  2. I forgot to mention that I had my Kindle with hundreds of books to read! I did some of that during takeoff and landing when I didn't want the needles out!

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  3. I forgot to mention that I had my Kindle with hundreds of books to read! I did some of that during takeoff and landing when I didn't want the needles out!

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  4. When you knit cables like you did on these gloves, do you use a cable needle or do you use the slip off, slip on method?

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    1. I use a cable needle---or, in this case, the 5th dpn in the set. I've glanced at the slip on/slip off method and was completely flummoxed. Someday, I expect I'll try to puzzle it out, but I don't know when!

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