Today is Thanksgiving here in the US and I just got back home after a long day of cooking, eating, football, and festivities! The best tip that I can offer after such a busy day is to get yourself a Knit Kit, it is the best thing a knitter can have while travelling. This is the Swiss Army Knife for knitters, it has everything you need for your project on the go. I always carry mine with me b/c it is so easy to grab it from one project bag and transfer it to another. It has all the little things you need in one container: measuring tape, stitch markers, row counter, crochet hook, scissors, and point protectors. I compare it to your wallet when changing purses, because it has all of your essentials: ID, cash, cards, photos, etc. My husband gave me mine for Xmas last year and I don’t know how I ever managed without it, worrying about gathering and carrying all those little things whenever I grabbed a different project bag. Honestly, I want another one… maybe even more! It would be great if I could keep on permanently in the car, another one by the couch, one in my suitcase, one in my purse, one in my craft room, one at work, everywhere!
We did about 8 out of the 23 hours of driving already and in case you’re wondering I decided to cast on some socks for this weekend trip. I was inspired by other bloggers who I have encountered are avid sock knitters (something that I still hope to become one day). Plus, I wanted to give one final push towards my New Year’s Knitting Resolution of knitting a sock a month. So farI have only made 5 pairs (if you count the ones for the dog, which I do) and I wanted to be able to say that I accomplished at least half of my goal.
The pattern I am using is Varsity by Melissa Morgan-Oates (2-at-a-time Socks, 2007) which is a good vanilla pattern to show off the self-striping yarn I chose, Schoppel-Wolle’s Ambiente. I am knitting them up simultaneously, but not in the method described in the book. Instead I am using two 9″ circulars and alternating between the two socks, which is working out so far. Funny thing is the way the two different skeins are knitting up – it would be hard to identify them as being of the same colorway if you didn’t have the label with you. One sock is coming out mostly gray & purple, while the other is has more brown & purple. I guess that’s the problem with ordering yarn online, I got the skeins that someone else picked out. Sure they are the same colorway and dye lot, but that was just someone quickly filling an order and moving on to the next one, if I had done it myself I would’ve carefully chosen two skeins with similar colors on the outside. Oh well, I still like the unique look, check them out:


Not only are socks great portable projects to work in the car, but you can take them pretty much anywhere! Here is a photo that shows you just how obsessed I am with knitting:

Please tell me I am not alone in this…. what are some unlikely circumstances where you have pulled out your needles to work on your projects? I can’t be the only one that has worked a few rows while waiting for my hair to dry, right?
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