I got off the plane but my knitting didn’t

On the trip from New York to Los Angeles my knitting stayed on the plane when I got off. I didn’t pick up on this until I was sitting at the gate waiting to board the next flight to San Francisco and sensed a disturbance in the force. Husband ran off to investigate, but the line was too long. So I continued my journey knittingless and very cross with myself.

The thing about travel knitting is it doesn’t need to be some spectacular project with the best ever yarn; for me it is more about just having something to do while waiting in airports or on that huge long flight to and from New Zealand. It needs to be smallish in size and not too simple, but not too complicated either in case of slow working brain. Unfortunately, I broke the cardinal rule and my project of choice was rather significant.

I had decided to start working on a new design of hand warmers for Stitch Bone Studio and they had worked out just as I had hoped. I had one arm completed and the other well on the way.

So that was what I lost. One whole arm, complete with pattern notes and spare needles.

The good thing was that the approximate pattern was still in my head and not lost to oblivion, and has subsequently been rewritten and a new set completed (Admittedly not once but twice, as I ended up accidentally redoing them with a larger needle).

Also, as an added bonus (or consolation I suppose), it gave me an excuse to visit two yarn shops in San Francisco to get more yarn and needles:

Atelier Yarns provided me with replacement Cascade Yarn in a wonderful purple. They also had a handy ball winder set-up on site which husband took to task with my new yarn.

I sourced some needles from Greenwich Yarn, and while there couldn’t resist these yarns by Freia Handpaint Yarns and Handwerks.

All in all, not a total disaster. Although I can’t shake the feeling that some TSA agent is busily finishing off the first pair from my notes, whilst sporting their completed Bender Arm.