I’ve picked up the Rona Shawl again lately. For a while it was not something that I enjoy knitting. The yarn I picked is too thin for the fingers to hold it comfortably. The pattern is complicated so you have to be on top of the pattern repeats for each row. And if I made a mistake, fixing lace is not my cup of tea. So that often gets frustrating. But in the past 20 rounds or so, I started to memorize the repeating pattern for each row and found that I actually could remember it and knitting became a bit easier. It has 153 rounds in total. So i’m getting close at round 124. Doesn’t seem that it is going to be a very big shawl but this is the first circular shawl I’ve ever made. So I have no idea how big it really will be.
Thinking about possible projects to bring for the trip. Although shawl is a good one to bring, I like to have one that doesn’t need much attention while I try to catch the next connecting flight and listening for the boarding announcement. I have a lot of my hand spun yarn in brown. Maybe I can find a pattern to take that with me for the trip. I don’t know if the Rona shawl will be finished or not by the time I leave for the tirp and whether that will be enough if I bring it to last the whole time.
And what do I load my iphone up with to listen to on the way? What presents to bring? Ahhhh, the dreaded trip….