Seattle- a place to sleep in late
I was on Ravelry a few minutes ago joining every group that was in Seattle… because I’m here- finally here!!! After a rush of packing and more packing, and a lot of very sad goodbyes, we were on the road. The trip lasted three days- so I got really put some miles in my Blanket Cardigan by Sarah Dally in her Knitting book (my designated easy to knit in the car, in the dark, or anywhere). Still it was hard to find the energy to do anything because all three of us had caught a very nasty cold. After the stress of moving our guard went down - and we arrived in Seattle happy to be able to sleep in the next day. Still, I made some desicions- first that the flame pattern would not look good in the KPPM as beautiful as both pattern and yarn are- together, you can’t see the pattern. I decided the KPPPM would look very nice as a smaller Clapotis- I frogged the lace and began the Clapotis… and it’s turning out gorgeous!!!
Now that I’m moved and have a decent internet connection, I’ll be able to update this blog’s gallery properly- so far I’ve only been updating Ravelry since it’s what keep me organised. Of course this will all happen in between finding a place to live, unpacking, and getting lost in this city. There is so much to do!!! But all I can think of right now is where is the Sudafed?
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Today I spent my last day in Mexico- and it was harder than I thought! I’m not Knit NOMAD for nothing and usually I am looking forward to the new place and the new experiences… but this time it was a little different. I went to Mexico with not such good thoughts- I have a history there, and not that good of a history- so Mexico had little appeal. Still I went because “never say never” - and I am leaving with such happy memories and excellent friends.
Lately some of my friends there had shown an interest in knitting- and I’d been holding impromptu classes. it was a strange experience translating knitting into Spanish and explaining how things worked, and mainly trying to remember what my mother and grandmother called things back when they taught me. They picked it up very quickly-knitting prodigies!
The night of my going away party - and my friend Miriam shows up with this—
This started life as her original sample swatch using yarn I gave her and needles I loaned to her to get her started! In the square at the top she put a photograph of her and her family and you fold it all up. She did about 5 different stiches on it after I’d just taught her knit and purl. I cried. I am so proud and SO sad to be leaving.
What to pack… what to pack for storage?
This is getting complicated. We’ll be spending about 2 months in Corporate Housing, and most of our things will be in storag.e We’re also driving up in one car… but I’ve got so many projects!!
Lace is the obvious answer… except I need projects I can do on a 2 day car trip- and can’t follow a pattern closely.
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