Friday, July 25, 2025

No Fluff Friday

 

Since the Tour will be over on Sunday, I'll wait and do my fluff post on Monday. Instead, I'd rather whine about the projects that I packed for our trip this week. I get four hours of gloriously uninterrupted knitting time on the way up and back but this week I pretty much sat in a big huff because of my poor planning. Exhibit A: My two on one needle socks are ready for their gussets but I can't do that on one needle. Too fiddly so I always separate them until that part is done. Did I bring an extra needle to do this? Nope. 



Exhibit B: The socks I'm knitting separately are in the same place as the twofers but I discovered that I had a split stitch in one of them in the black area. Rather than pull the whole heel flap out I thought that I could fix it with a small crochet hook but did I have one in my bag? Nope. 




Exhibit C: I couldn't even spin because silly me had packed an empty spindle and the last bit of that purple fiber. That was dumb because I already had a spindle started with that fiber on it and why do another splice with so small an amount. I should have packed the already in progress spindle. I was kicking myself for two days.




And...Exhibit D: Adding insult to injury, I had thought I was being clever to buy a watermelon at a grocery store that was down the street from Daughter's house. They were half the price that they are here.  Did I remember to bring it home with me? Nope. 






5 comments:

  1. To have uninterrupted knitting time and not be able to knit is quite a tragedy, almost as much as forgetting your watermelon. I hope next week goes better!

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  2. I agree with Bonny. I love the pop of green in the socks at the top.

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  3. Ouch, losing that knitting time will sting! Looks like a lovely melon. Sometimes I swear if my head was not attached I would forget that most days.

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  4. Oh, bother!!!! I left too many pet things at my house when they should've been packed to go back to my son's--I know the 'kick yourself' feeling well!

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  5. "Nope" and "Ooops" --- banes of crafters' existence.

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