vacation knitting

I look forward to summer vacation for most of the year. In fact, I have been looking forward to this year’s summer vacation since the last day of my LAST summer vacation.

One of the best parts of vacation is all the knitting time. There’s car knitting, ferry knitting, beach knitting, coffee shop knitting, sunrise porch knitting, sunset porch knitting… Knowing this, you would think that I would begin organizing myself days in advance. But for some reason I never start packing until an hour before it’s time to go.

This year, I made a list of knitting goals for vacation the night before we left. Advance planning! Generally speaking I’m a commitment knitter. That’s the rare breed who works on one project at a time. But vacation is time rule breaking. I’ve got little stack of projects that are 5 minutes from finished, they’re coming. I’ve been working diligently on 10 Tiny Knits for months and I’m still refining a couple of things before they go out for test knitting, so that’s at the top of the list. I haven’t made anything for myself in over a year and I’m craving a mindless project and some stripes - hello socks! I haven’t made socks in years. so I’m grabbing my new copy of Wanderlust for instructional reminders. I’m teaching some beginner classes in the fall and need to prepare projects for those classes. I have a cabled project that’s been floating around in my mind for a couple of months. Maybe it’s time to let it out - so I’m bringing yarn and some good cabley wisdom from the Queen of Cables, Norah Gaughan.

As big as the pile is, I’m sure I’ve forgotten things, but nothing that a trip to a local yarn store won’t solve. (0;