Thank you, everyone, for hanging in there through me grumping–and then disappearing. I was out of town for a few days, and now I am back. My inbox has been gathering enough e-mails in my absence to start pulling objects with low mass into its gravitational field, but before I go there I wanted to show you some knitting.

Three projects came with me, and for once, I needed them all: *%$# Christmas gift, Epic Seas stole, and Sexxxy Librarian vest. I polished off the last of the knitting on the Christmas gift on my first plane–now I just have to go back to do the finishing and give it a bath. Next flight was a little one, and had two children who screamed blue murder the second their seatbelts were fastened. There was no way I was going to read a chart through that, so I knitted on the Librarian vest and wondered why a five-year-old was screaming like her one-year-old brother instead of running through the usual five-year-old **whine/forced cry/demand everything she can’t have, repeat from ** to landing routine.

Nobody else on the flight knew either. We all made it through to landing, and by the time I joined the desperate charge away from these awful children, I was several inches into the bust increases.

The Epic Seas stole got its turn on the flights home, but please don’t get excited for a picture. It looks exactly the same as it did at Sunset Crater. Believe me. I only got through half of a chart, so you can’t even see that it’s longer. Even still, I am pleased with all the knitting I accomplished. With the Christmas gift out of the way, I am going to take a day or two to knit for me. Who knows–maybe I’ll end the weekend with three quarters of a librarian!

Do you bring your knitting on flights? Do you have a go-to travel project, or like me, do you just grab whatever is on the needles?