Sunday, August 15, 2004

Procrastination

Well, I was procrastinating earlier this afternoon (and am still doing so right now), so I decided to finish knitting up the sleeve to my short-sleeved mohair-stripe sweater. I don't have a picture because it doesn't look all that different from the other sleeve, tee hee. =P Anyway, the sweater is ready for blocking before I have to do the neckline and sew it up together, but I probably won't get to it until I get back from Toronto.

So I was checking the Air Canada website, and apparently knitting needles are not allowed on their planes. Boo. I am digging around for a super-mindless project to work on while in Toronto, not that I'll have much time to do much knitting, but maybe a really really easy novelty-yarn scarf would be good. Or another headscarf, since I gave the first one to my sister.

2 comments:

Karen said...

It really sucks that you can't bring knitting needles on to Air Canada flights. Of all the times, that's when I'd want to knit the most!

I think you should go with a headscarf. Those are always fun. Oh, and please let me know how you did your blocking when you get to it. That's still something that is a bit of a mystery to me.

Adrienne said...

I'm not sure how I want to do the blocking yet, which is why I haven't really discussed it. I may do it by using a spray bottle to dampen the sweater pieces instead of totally dunking the whole thing in water since that makes me a little nervous, and plus that would allow me to pin it out the way I want before it gets all limp and wet and stretchy. Not entirely sure yet,though. That's the way I blocked a scarf I made to get rid of the stockinette curl, but my experience with blocking is pretty much limited to that one time. I will definitely take pictures and let you know how it works (or doesn't work) when I get to it, though!