The traveling knitter’s two most important questions are:
“What shall I knit on the plane (or in the car)?”
“What shall I work on while I’m there?”
Once one settles on a project, one must be careful to bring enough yarn. Heaven forbid, the yarn should run out before the trip is over! Also, one must determine whether to bring a back-up project, because what if one finishes the original project before one arrives home? Horrors!
During our free time at the Iwannaknit ReTreat, I am going to work on a project which I started in the Fall of 2004. I made a good bit of progress, until one thing and another caused me to push it aside.
It is a knitted quilt, Snowflake Dreams of Spring, which I posted here several months ago. Last night, I spent a couple of hours quilting the last few unquilted areas (why didn’t I do that long ago?). Today, I trimmed the edges, to make it ready for binding.
Revealed here for the first time, is the snowflake’s center, surrounded by six bound flaps. They will remain open in the finished quilt (some of my other knitted quilts have opening/closing flaps are Shards 1: Willow, Shards 2: Sometimes, My Beautiful Dreams, and A Hopeful Glimpse into the 21st Century, which at some point you will be able to view in my Works page. When I pinned the flaps on the snowflake back, and saw how beautiful the center looks, I felt all the work was worthwhile. Now I want to finish the piece.
On the plane, I’m going to crochet more of these.
