One day and counting...

Today was my last in Philly: a fun combination of packing, cleaning out the refrigerator, and double checking all my plugs and wires. A multiple tractor trailer accident on 1-95 made my journey longer than needed, but I did eventually get home to my kitties. I will miss them SO much (there were no kitties to miss on my first soujourn). So I'm all packed and ready to go, except for a last minute check to make sure I absolutely need everything in my bag. I called Cathay Pacific to reserve my vegetarian meals for the 15 hour 30 minute flight from LA to Hong Kong. I'll leave BWI at 6:30 am on Thursday morning and arrive in Hong Kong at 7 pm on Friday. Since I'm arriving at night, I decided to reserve my lodging in advance, which was easily accomplished on hostels.com. Just amazing.

One of my last projects before leaving was finishing Avery's sweater. This is the same pattern I made for Rowen, just larger and in more feminine colors, using DB cashmerino DK yarn. I have promised everyone that I will not take my knitting on the trip!! Well, at least not until I'm confronted with all that wonderful yarn in NZ :)

Trip Procrastination, Knitting Obsession

Happy new year!! I am slowly getting ready for this trip, trying to decide whether a straight ticket to Singapore, or an around the world ticket is the better deal. Since I hope to leave in just a few weeks, I need to get my act in gear.

My obsession of late has actually been knitting, inspired by the birth of son Rowen to my friends Emily and Rick on Halloween. My first projects were simple fruit caps, knit in the round on a #7 circular needle. First a strawberry, and then a pumpkin for the Halloween baby.


I enjoyed making these so much that I decided to embark on my first sweater, a raglan pullover from Knitting at Knoon. The yarn, DB cashmerino DK in teal, was a joy to work with. Much of the work was done on two cross country flights, first to LA and then to Denver.


Once I completed the first sweater, I wanted to try out a different pattern in a different yarn. This one is knit entirely in one piece, in the round, except for the collar which is added on later. It felt strange knitting on size 10 needles with worsted weight yarn, but I eventually became accustomed to it.