Holiday progress

I took a mini-break to North Devon over the weekend. It was lovely - the countryside, the seaside, the fish and chips and cream tea :) I saw lots of sheep (more on that later) but, more importantly, it was 4 hours in the car each way and plenty of driving between towns. That makes for a lot of knitting time.

I brought three projects with me for the trip - plying 4 shades for my Sheep Heid hat, a slouchy hat to go with my Katie sweater, and a sock - Pomatomus by Cookie A.

Before the trip, the singles were all unplied, the sock had yet to be cast on, and I had only knit the ribbing of the hat.

Here's what my projects looked like about halfway through the first day's drive:

Things were making progress. The plying went quickly - there wasn't very much there; only about 50-60g or so of fingering weight singles. The hat was coming along, and I had cast on the sock and finished the toe. (That's Koigu PPPM, by the way - a skein I've had in the stash for years, always intended for a pair of Pomatomus, and finally being used.)

Finally, here's my full progress after my 3-day weekend:
On the crown decreases for the hat (we arrived home at around dinner time, so I ended up finishing the hat that night), plied all the singles, and a few rounds into the chart on Pomatomus.

I think it's so neat to watch fabric being made beneath your fingers - knitting can be slow, but when you see progress being made, it's a great feeling. I guess that's part of why I prefer small projects to big ones!

~Joyuna