I leave for a short business trip tomorrow (just three days-I'll be back Sunday night) and I still haven't figured out what knitting to bring! It's hard, because I'll be working a lot, and driving for most of two days, but I still want something for the hotel room and for slow periods on Saturday. But here are my options:
1. A baby blanket-probably not a real option. I have the yarn for one blanket, but the stitch patterns I wanted to use don't work out the way I hoped they would, so I have to re-think the whole thing. Plus the size factor.
2. Sockhead-potential, but it's pretty small and right now is my go-to cinema knitting, and I don't have anything else in the queue right now that can replace it once it's done, so I want to make it last as long as possible.
3: Neville-strong potential, except I'm still feeling all socked-out. I don't even want to look at another sock right now, even if it's a sock as charming as Neville. Plus, these have languished long enough that I'm starting to feel guilty. I'm not quite ready to face up to my negligence and apologize to them yet.
4. Mottled Daydream-definitely a possibility, but I still haven't finished frogging it. And I'd have to re-print the pattern and write down all my planned changes. But it would be an excuse to start working on it again.
5. Cotton lace-weight pullover-if I was farther along in the planning process, maybe. But I haven't even finished swatching for it, and I have no planned measurements or schematic drawn up. So right now, that's a bit laughable.
6. Heartmate-I would, but it's more than half-complete already, and it's such a pleasure to knit that I want to stretch it out a little bit longer.
7. Something Top Sekrit-it would be a good chance to get some Top Sekrit knitting done, especially since cell reception is spotty where I'm going. But I don't really have something planned out enough where I can take it with me right now. Plus I'd have to take notes, if it was a new design, which is the antithesis of portable, and most o my dedicated Top-Sekrit yarn hasn't been wound into balls yet.
8. Darjeeling-laughable. I haven't touched these in over a year, and they're my first toe-up socks ever. When I finally go back to these, I will be GLUED to the book.
9. Snowdrop-I know Ravelry says that this has been on the needles since 2012, and that it's 5% done, but the reality is, it's totally frogged. I messed up, and I was only two repeats in, and I needed the needles for something else, so I just took it off and haven't restarted it yet.
Looking at all my options listed out, it seems like my best choice is probably going to be Mottled Daydream, as long as I can forget that I've already knit the whole thing once before. But it is a fun knit, the yarn is nice, and there's only a tiny bit left to frog. And since I've knit it once before, I know the pattern well enough to be able to pick it up and set it down as necessary.
1. A baby blanket-probably not a real option. I have the yarn for one blanket, but the stitch patterns I wanted to use don't work out the way I hoped they would, so I have to re-think the whole thing. Plus the size factor.
2. Sockhead-potential, but it's pretty small and right now is my go-to cinema knitting, and I don't have anything else in the queue right now that can replace it once it's done, so I want to make it last as long as possible.
3: Neville-strong potential, except I'm still feeling all socked-out. I don't even want to look at another sock right now, even if it's a sock as charming as Neville. Plus, these have languished long enough that I'm starting to feel guilty. I'm not quite ready to face up to my negligence and apologize to them yet.
4. Mottled Daydream-definitely a possibility, but I still haven't finished frogging it. And I'd have to re-print the pattern and write down all my planned changes. But it would be an excuse to start working on it again.
5. Cotton lace-weight pullover-if I was farther along in the planning process, maybe. But I haven't even finished swatching for it, and I have no planned measurements or schematic drawn up. So right now, that's a bit laughable.
6. Heartmate-I would, but it's more than half-complete already, and it's such a pleasure to knit that I want to stretch it out a little bit longer.
7. Something Top Sekrit-it would be a good chance to get some Top Sekrit knitting done, especially since cell reception is spotty where I'm going. But I don't really have something planned out enough where I can take it with me right now. Plus I'd have to take notes, if it was a new design, which is the antithesis of portable, and most o my dedicated Top-Sekrit yarn hasn't been wound into balls yet.
8. Darjeeling-laughable. I haven't touched these in over a year, and they're my first toe-up socks ever. When I finally go back to these, I will be GLUED to the book.
9. Snowdrop-I know Ravelry says that this has been on the needles since 2012, and that it's 5% done, but the reality is, it's totally frogged. I messed up, and I was only two repeats in, and I needed the needles for something else, so I just took it off and haven't restarted it yet.
Looking at all my options listed out, it seems like my best choice is probably going to be Mottled Daydream, as long as I can forget that I've already knit the whole thing once before. But it is a fun knit, the yarn is nice, and there's only a tiny bit left to frog. And since I've knit it once before, I know the pattern well enough to be able to pick it up and set it down as necessary.
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