When we got back from our trip last week, I ended up with some bug and was down and out for a few days. I was too sick to knit so I didn’t miss my knitting notions bag until the other night when I needed my snips to cut some yarn.

I didn’t need the bag while we was away but had it in the front pocket of our suitcase. Or at least that’s where I put it before we checked our luggage.

The small zippered bag (former life as a glasses case) held my crochet hooks, yarn snips, all my stitch markers, stitch holders, yarn needles, tape measure, kitchener stitch directions and some other miscellaneous things.

I don’t remember unpacking it but that doesn’t mean that I didn’t unpack it. And if I did, I don’t know where it is or why it’s not with my other knitting things.

Please St. Anthony come around for there is something that can’t be found.

Airplane knitting

Posted on October 31, 2011 by Patti_is_knittinginflashes

I managed to knit at the airport and on the plane on our trip to Vegas though I don’t have too much to show for it.

I started another Garter Stitch bag in Cascade 220 Primavera and Jet. I was in the middle seat on the plane and had a hard time getting comfortable. Turns out that Mr. Aitch is an armrest hog and encroached into my space. I think the man to my left thought I was crazy for taking a picture of my knitting.

I did get a window seat on the return trip and managed to get three and a half squares done before I ran out of the green yarn. I was using a partial ball and didn’t get another one wound into a ball before we left. An airplane just isn’t the place to wind a skein of yarn into a ball…at least that’s what Mr. Aitch says.

I wanted to look out the window as much as I could which was easy to do while knitting mindless garter stitch. I don’t get to see the world from 45,000 feet very often.

Aren’t those patchwork fields so artistic?

When there was too much cloud cover, I started the Linen Stitch Scarflet.

I only got about eight rows done on this since the stitch pattern required more concentration.

We got a non-stop return flight so I folded my napkin in fourths to give me an idea where we were in our flight. This section of the scarflet was knit somewhere over Indiana.

Mr. Aitch’s armrest hoggishness didn’t affect my knitting on the return trip. I evidently need more space on my right side than left when knitting and since the window was to my right, I had a little bit more space.

What happens in Vegas…

Posted on October 30, 2011 by Patti_is_knittinginflashes

We’re back from Vegas. I don’t think I mentioned where we were going. Sorry about that. I had a conference in Vegas and Mr. Aitch decided to go with me two seconds after I told him where it was being held.

I took my new bag on its maiden voyage.

That’s me with Franco Harris and the new bag at the Pittsburgh Airport. You can barely see it with my black shirt but hopefully you can get an idea of the size.