March 28, 2008

• Be prepared

  Say what you will about me, but you can never accuse me of being unprepared for *any* contingency:

  
  I just packed my knitting for the three-day weekend in St. Louis.

  I brought some truly mindless work:
  
  (Half the foot to go, on my second Alpaca Sox Sox [my own design/basic sock formula]!)

  And some back up socks, for when I finish those:
  
  (Knitty’s Hedera and some Fortissima Socka)

  Something even more mindless, but also less fun:
  
  (Knitty’s Fetching and some Maxim Starlette–one of the free yarns from preschool, and destined  to be gift mitts for our director)

  A “winter, please don’t be over!” project:
  
  (Knitty’s Cozy, and some Brown Sheep worsted)

  And something I haven’t even cast on for yet:
  
  That’s good ol’ Cascade 220 [color:  Jet], destined to become a Claudia hat for Jeff (he picked out the pattern and yarn himself!)

  But I can do myself one better.  I also brought some knitting for which I haven’t even bought the yarn yet:
  
  (Lace Capelet, from Rainy Day Goods)

  And did I put it all in my super-nifty rolling knitting bag?  Nooo, of course not!  For I am telling myself that this weekend is all about packing *light*.  And bringing a whole knitting bag wouldn’t be packing “light”, would it?  No! (Hmm…though if I did bring it, I could fit in that mobius for Mom, and maybe the yarn and pattern for my next socks…)

  No, instead I fit all that junk pictured above, into here:
  
  Its capacity is rivaled only by that of Mary Poppins’ famous carpet bag.

  Oh yeah, and I also fit in two cameras (plus some extra batteries, extra cards, y’know…), my notions bag, a few more pairs of needles, and all the regular stuff that goes in a girl’s bag.

  Because I’m packing light, y’know.

  Now, if you’ll excuse me, we’re leaving in 10 minutes and I’ve just spent more time packing my knitting than I did all our clothes and toiletries.  Oops.

  PS>I went to bed at 1:00.  I was up at 3:30. HIIIII! (Read that like a hyperactive 3-year-old is saying it).

  But the worst news of all?  Jeff has decided he’s too sleepy to drive, so it shall be me.  And I shall lose at least 2 or 3 hours of perfectly good knitting time, once it gets light out.  Poo!

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