Blog post brought to you from Heathrow Airport as I wait for my flight to the US. Headed to one of our company offices for several days of work meetings, but then going to visit family and friends including AwesomeE for a few days before I fly back to Germany.
My trip home is a bit too early to join family for Thanksgiving, but it would have been mean to leave TheEnabler by himself for that anyway.
The “fun” thing about work trips is the rest of work doesn’t stop just because I’ll be in meetings this week. So I had a few longer work days last week. I tell you this to explain why, even though I’ve had them picked out for a week, you are just now getting the obligatory pic of what I’m taking with me. Why yes, I took this from the airport waiting area.
I started the Tulva’s Arrows shawl I wrote about last time, must have a spindle (great for standing in check in lines), and then the yarns I’m going to use for nalbinding fingerless mitts for TheEnabler. No pattern for those – I took various measurements of his hand last night. I am totally going to finish the socks, hopefully on the loonnnnng flight today (if the very fun shawl doesn’t distract me).
Not pictured: 2oz more of the roving and another ball of sock yarn. I realized as I packed yesterday that it was utter folly not to have some simple socks to work on during breaks from meetings to maintain sanity. There is value in a project I can work on while maintaining eye contact, and neither the mitts nor shawl will fit that need. And while AwesomeE has promised yarn stores if I want, that won’t be until next weekend.
All in all, my projects make up less than 2lbs (1kg) of my luggage, even if I throw in the project bags. I feel this is important to know as fluffies can kinda explode all over the place, but no matter what somebody thinks, they are totally not most of my luggage.