Plodding away

There has been knitting. Quite a bit, actually. Fancy, my Kidsilk Haze jumper has sort of stalled. Mainly because there's been travel knitting, and public knitting, and Fancy isn't really suited to either.

Over the long weekend two weeks ago, we went to Bundaberg for the in-laws family reunion. This involved a flight to Brisbane, then a 4 hour drive to Bundaberg. Lots of knitting. We flew up on Friday night, visited Tangled Yarns on Saturday morning, where I finally got to meet Nathalie.

Nathalie and I started communicating back when I first started the blog, over seven years ago. It was great to finally meet her!
Then we drove up to Bundaberg. On Thursday, I started a new sample for the shop, and took it along as my travel knitting. I chose Blossom by Martin Storey (from Rowan Miniature Classics), a sweet little baby bolero. On Monday, we started to drive home.

It was a nightmare. Long story short, our flight was cancelled. Tiger Airways grounded it's entire fleet due to the Chilean Volcanic ash cloud. Despite the fact that the volcanic ash was nowhere near Sydney nor Brisbane. However, the flight cancellation was not made clear until 2pm or so in the afternoon. It's a 12 hour drive from Sydney to Brisbane. 16 hours from Bundaberg to Sydney.

There was flooding rain on the North Coast. Nightmare. Worse still, I ran out of yarn. I was trying to pack light, and hadn't planned for extended travel. So most of the drive home was sans knitting. I know, disaster.

If I'd had the yarn, I would have finished the knitting! However, the knitting is now done, and the bolero is in the process of being constructed.

Instead of doing the little lace trim, I'm going to trim the edge in Liberty Bias Binding. Yum.

I'd finished the knitting on the little bolero before WWKIP day, and Fancy wasn't going to cut it for knitting in company, so I started something else.

Smoulder by Kim Hargreaves for Em. I'm using Drops Kid Silk instead of Kidsilk Haze, because I had it in the stash, a swap gift from BlueADT Knits. Yarn held doule, one 4mm needle and one 7mm needle. Moving along nice and quickly!

In the past week or so, I also finished my first ever quilt!

It's a gift for my very new nephew. Very, very simple, just strips around a centre rectangle, but I'm pleased with it, and my sister seemed to be, too. All that handquilting nearly did me in, too. I always swore I'd never quilt, but all that fabric I get to look at all day long in the shop finally sucked me in.

I don't think it'll ever come close to knitting, though!