SP 12 Question #6

Questions #6

What is your favorite type of project to take along on holiday/vacation?

We drive most places and I have learned from experience that I should bring a project for "drive time" and something different for "sitting around relaxing time." Anything to be felted will generally hide any errors (more or less) during the felting process. Anything that is a simple pattern is okay to knit also during the "drive time." But, I have a real problem working on any kind of complicated patterns or things that change colors or other things while driving. I end up spending more time frogging.

Although this last trip, I discovered that a really good thing to do while driving is to wind yarn. I don't have a yarn winder or swift so when I get tired of knitting, I ball yarn.

If you’d like to share a story…Tell us about a time that you packed too much knitting or were stranded without knitting.

In 2006, we left Ohio for a three week vacation, driving down through Missouri, Oklahoma and Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Nevada, California, Oregon, Washington and back across the northern band of states, catching many of the national parks and many beautiful cities (San Fran, Portland, Seattle), camping at some great places (north rim of the Grand Canyon being the bestest of all).

9,000+ miles. I did not run out of projects. I took too many and too many reference books and needles and what not. If I had thought about it, I should have planned substantially better and taken up substantially less space in the van. LOL. However, I was so afraid that I would be left high and dry without any knitting to tide me over.