Packing, Knitting, Thoughts and Things

Oh my stars, I am off to Scotland in 46 hours! 

I know this will sound very strange but honestly it did not hit me till I was riding an escalator in a store today.  I'm riding along and all of a sudden it dawned on me  " I'm going to be in another COUNTRY in two days."   Maybe I was having flashbacks of this way cool full of 7 floors department store in Berlin I had been to way back when the Wall coming down dust was still settling.

Packing has been happening today.   Decided even though I'm going to be gone for something like 10 or 12 days, I'd only pack for 5.   We've got washer & dryer in our cottage so washie, washie, washie.   I'm going to be all black, blue, khaki, gray and blue jeans with gobs of tee shirts.  Raverly tee of course!    Threw in a cool raincoat and some light sweaters.  Started out with 5 pairs of shoes and now down to 3.  Progress right?

Knitting:

Baby Surprise Jacket for the littlest girl carpenter to be is coming along.  Slower than I had thought but it's coming along.   Bernat cottontots in "Pretty in Pink".

               

As for my trip knitting   .     .     .
Think I'm going to work on this in the airplane.

         
            
                   
                   
                        

It's the Airy Scarf from Last Minute Knitted Gifts and they nit it in 4 hours so I'm thinking maybe I got a decent shot at 12 hours.   I've got several years old  Malabrigo lace yarn that is a a lovely brown with flecks of red and wee bit of green  colored.

I've still got this much left after making that long Scribble scarf with it. 

               


         

Had gone with several folks suggestions of knitting socks on the airplane.   Even went to Knitch and got the Drop Dead Softness sock yarn ever aka Hand Maiden  Casbah in Rose Garden with colors that make me want to bite into it.  I mean just look at it!    

The yarn is all raspberries, sour cream, pistachios and sweetness thrown in.  I swear looking at this yarn cake I want to make a dessert.   I'm beginning to have my doubts that this will ever wrap around my feet.   Neck probably, feet doubtful.

So books!   Ya'll rock.   Got some wonderful suggestions and off to Borders The Man and I headed.   Except I forgot my list!   Augggghhhhhhh.    I truly did the best I could to remember but it just didn't work out so went with Agatha Christie (can't go wrong there) and  Sue Grafton.    So I will have some great books to check out when I return.   Oh, in case you hadn't noticed I put a cool book on my side bar.   It's "Write It Down, Make It Happen . . ."   Can't tell you how many times I have had to purchase this book.  Every time I loan it out, the book never comes back. 

Sorta in that vein, I had fun on Saturday evening  working on my Treasure Map.   Funny how I am headed to another country and my travel part has tons of photos in it!   I know from personal experience that writing down your goals no matter how outlandish they sound does work.   I had some really cool stuff happen in my 30's that way.  Actually some cool stuff has happened in my 40's too.

Off to finish packing and ponder my other knitting project to bring.  No, Jana, I am NOT bringing the Ombre Blanket with me!   Lord knows it is so big it would need it's own passport.

Comments

[lla]

travel safely and eat, drink, knit and be merry!!!!!

[rebecca]

hooray! it sounds like you're already on your way! i'm so envious. i hope you have an excellent time. sorry i couldn't think of any good books to recommend. but i'm glad you're going with a sock project, and that airy scarf. the pattern on it is easy to memorize, you'll be doing it in your sleep!