SP12 Question of the Week #6

What is your favorite type of project to take along on vacation?

I like to take something that is simple with an easy-to-memorize pattern. I don't want to have to think too hard or need a reference book to help me out. I just want to sit and knit something easy. On my latest vacation, I took (yet another) Montego Bay scarf I am making for my mom.

Tell us about a time that you packed too much knitting or were stranded without knitting.

My vacations tend to be fairly action-packed so I always take too much knitting. I think I spent only one evening knitting the Montego Bay scarf on my recent vacation.

I have been stranded without knitting when flights were late. Last Christmas my return flight was delayed several hours for reasons I don't recall. I was sitting in a big comfy leather chair by the fireplace in the Colorado Springs airport with lots of knitting time on my hands and no knitting. I had a project on needles but I was afraid of an airport screener determining my needles were prohibited. How could I save the project without the needles? I didn't have any sort of stitch holders with me. So the project was in my checked luggage. In addition being a knitter, I am a reader so I just read my book.

Last March I flew to Corpus Christi for business. I didn't take any knitting. The flight is less than an hour, I was just going to land, go to a meeting, and return to Houston earlier than if I'd worked a day in my office. Our return flight was delayed for "mechanical reasons". I had about 5 hours on my hands that could have been used for knitting. I managed to finish my book instead.