It sounds boring but it's not

[flexagon]

I love coming back to Boston... it makes every cell in my body fizz with happiness and relief. When I walked in the door of my condo, Rafe ran out onto the stairs, and then the other cats ran out onto the stairs, and so heisenbug and I went out with them and snuggled on the stairs while all three of them ran madly up and down. I may write more about the trip later, but all of it feels unimportant next to being home again.

Here's what I did on my cross-country plane flights:

I said I would only post finished objects here, but the back of a sweater is kind of a finished object, right?

Comments

[perfectbound.livejournal.com]

FO or no FO, i am totally impressed that you did that on a plane! i go into some kind of knitting stupidity fugue state on planes and become constitutionally unable to count cable crosses, as evidenced by my latest tiny little project (srsly, a fingerless glove) until i fixed it at my hotel.

[flexagon]

Technically speaking, I only did the top half of the picture on the planes. :) But thanks. I think planes are the perfect place for knitting... I do it until I get bored, and then I go through that into a sort of, yeah, fugue state where I could just do it forever.

Are you making Fetchings?

[perfectbound.livejournal.com]

haha, no, something even simpler: dashing! and yet i messed one up on my way to atlanta and had to rip all the progress i'd made on the plane. they're done now, though, warm and fuzzy and mistake-free, and i also worked on some no-brainer socks that i managed not to fuck up.

[a-kosmos.livejournal.com]

WOW! I'm very, very impressed!

[flexagon]

Thanks! I do think it's coming out well.

[bluechromis.livejournal.com]

I don't think that sounds boring at all, that sounds like a perfectly lovely homecoming. :) Yay for being settled!

[flexagon]

You'll never meet a faster unpacker. Business trip... OBLIVIATE! :)

[webfaery.livejournal.com]

I love your sweater! It's going to look great when finished. It's been years since I've done any knitting, but you may just have inspired me to take it up again.
How'd you manage to keep your needles on the planes? I know so many people who have had knitting needles and crochet hooks taken off them.
I recently saw a lady knitting in an open motorbike side-car as she was travelling down the freeway!

[flexagon]

I have a set of Knitpicks Options needles, and I take the needle tips off and put them with my pens and pencils when I go through security. I've heard that knitting needles are now on the explicitly approved list of items for flying, so maybe a printout of the rules would be sufficient, but this has worked for me.

Thanks, on the sweater! If you do start knitting again, look around for the many great tutorials, blogs and free patterns that are online now. I'm not sure quite when knitters took over such a big corner of the internet.

[nahele-101.livejournal.com]

WOW!

that pattern looks awesome!

Sweater

[islenskr.livejournal.com]

Ooooo! That's so pretty! I love cables. And blue! What's the gauge? It looks so tiny. *sigh* You're inspiring me to get off my butt and knit the sweater I've said I was always going to knit. :)

Re: Sweater

[flexagon]

7 stitches/inch, but that's not as bad as it sounds, because it's over 2x2 ribbing. I'm using size 4 needles. What can I say... after doing a pair of socks on size 1s or 2s, they seemed huge!

If you can whip out socks in 3 days, a sweater wouldn't take you too long, I'm sure. I'm a huge slowpoke in comparison. :)