It’s been a trip full of travel time – Germany to Chicago, Chicago to Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh to Fort Wayne…
This is generally good for crafting if you can get out of being the driver. Which didn’t even come up. Thus, on this last leg (4+ hr drive from Pitt to Fort Wayne) I hit a major crafting milestone: the first kilt sock is DONE
Behold:
A single sock. I’m feeling pretty proud. I’ve also broken my rule of casting on the next within 24hrs but that’s because starting the next cuff is no joke and a really bad idea while hanging out with family pre-wedding. 2×2 rib has been a much better fit and can also be done in a dark car:
Even there, dropping a stitch in the dark halts knitting. I tried picking up the dropped purl stitch, but quickly realized this was a fix for daylight.
I’ve also been steadily making progress on my cardigan, but it looks more or less the same so more pics are pretty redundant. Shockingly, progress is not exactly speedy on a light fingering knit on size US 1.5 (2.5 mm) needles.
Should anybody ever suggest that your time crafting could be better spent elsewhere however, let me present to you the following evidence of it’s usefulness:
Attracting the undying love of small children. That’s right, I am not the new favorite person of a little four year old girl because I am the “lady with the pretty scarf”:
That’s right – I wore a pretty handspun handknit shawl, and I get to be a kids’ favorite person now. This despite the fact that my husband spent time playing with her on the playgroup, and several other “suckers” (her dad’s words) plied her with numerous York peppermint patties. I’m sure they get some credit for their efforts, but none of them had a yellow and purple scarf.
It is one of my personal favorites though, so I really can’t blame her.