Elder Son graduates from his residency program this weekend, so we are off to Sioux Falls. It’s a six-hour trip one way, more or less, so that means…
NEW PROJECT!
Ahem.
Yeah, I already have a portable project OTN, but it is a pair of socks I am not terribly excited about. I will finish them later, where “later” = “when I feel like it.” In the meantime, I had vague musings about what would be an appropriate, interesting-but-somewhat-mindless project to bring along.
Just because I have about 15 projects sorted and bagged and ready to go with both yarn and pattern, doesn’t mean I have to PICK one of them.

And just because I have 30 31 projects in my Ravelry queue doesn’t mean I have to pick one of them, either.
No, you I am not the boss of me. Ahem.
Remember this traveling project? Well, after knitting about 6″ of it I happened to glance at the pattern…and noticed that it called for a US#6 needles.
For some reason known only to the Knitting Goddess — who was clearly not on my side — I was using a US#4. After a bit of thought I decided that I would probably be happier if I used the needle called for in the pattern, and into the frog pond it went. (The project, not the pattern. Nor the needle.) (Why I didn’t blog about that frogging on an Unraveled Wednesday is another mystery for the Knitting Goddess. I am definitely no good at following the rules.)
I could have restarted that Madison scarf for this trip, but I was not terribly excited about it. Been there, done that, do it again another time. Why start a project that I am not tripping over myself salivating eager to knit?*
Here is what is going with me, a pattern that has been in my Rav favorites for a l-o-ng time.
I cast on for it yesterday afternoon because the beginning looked impossible complicated like something better attacked in solitude and calm. That was a good decision. After seven rows I can see the pattern developing and have a [somewhat tenuous] grasp of its logic.
The yarn is Sunshine Yarns Soft Sock in ‘Brick NSS’, a lovely, slightly mottled rusty red and which colorway Ravelry tells me that I am the only person on the planet (or at least among the 87 gazillion people on Rav) to own, is fabulous — soft and smushy, perfect for a scarf. And since, for me, knitting is all about the yarn, that means this project should be a win. It was clear to me after perusing the 2,450 other Herbivores on Ravelry that this pattern looked best in a solid color, or at least in a more-or-less solid color. Thus, the perfect mating of pattern and yarn.
Road trip and knitting — whee!
* I seem to have used up my quota of italics and parentheses and cross-outs in this post. Still have lots of exclamation points, though…
What a great choice for your travel project! Beautiful yarn, plenty of car knitting time, on your way to see Elder Son, it all sounds like a wonderful weekend. Congratulations to all!
OOOOO! Nice choice! Have a great trip — and CONGRATULATIONS all around!!! Enjoy the celebration.
Happy happy all around! Happy knitting, happy trails, happy graduation, and happy weekend!
Nice choice, indeed! And, Congratulations to your Elder Son!!
Huge Congratulations to your family on this awesome accomplishment. I Love your travel knit pick lady!