Vacation I: Knitting
Surprising myself, I actually only worked on the Color Affection shawl while I was on vacation. I usually have more project ADD, but who am I to question it. I cast on as I usually did with travel knitting, in my seat waiting for the plane to take off.
I had all three yarns ready and it wasn’t until I cast on that I actually chose the order the colors would be worked. I decided when I cast on to work red, grey, blue. Something that looked a bit like the colors of the flags, of all the countries I visited, and the colors of the airlines I flew. Unplanned but nice.
By the time we were in London I had quite a lot of first section of the shawl done, and a few more rows until I started working in two colors. During the drive to Stonehenge, on Monday I finally got to the second section. A section that grew on the train to Paris that night.
I finished that section on the train back from Paris on Tuesday night, when we checked into our hotel, back in London.
Then came the third section, with the blue, when I was holed up in the hotel room getting sicker by the moment.
I got through the first repeat before I decided sleep was a wiser choice.
On the tube to the airport I also made quite the bit of progress. And then we had quite the wait in the airport, as I was too sick to run around with luggage, and my sister hadn’t planned anything either. So after a last breakfast with some friends, we went our separate ways just before noon, which meant we got to the airport a little before one for a 5pm flight. So I knit. And knit some more. We boarded our plane eventually. And by the time we landed in New York I had about 2/3 of the third section done. About where it remains now.
My own knitting was not the only time knitting came into play during my trip. It showed itself a few times at museums. Both the Transport Museum and the Imperial War Museum had little nods to knitting that caught my eye.
The description that caught my eye, sounded quite familiar to me.
And its matching image made me grin. Kudos Transport Museum. Kudos.
And the Imperial War Museum, had a poster for something I have heard about all the time, and even seen modern versions for, but this was the first poster I had ever seen for knitting for the troops, specifically socks to boot.
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