What would "M" do?

This past weekend, the girls and I traveled to Michigan for a graduation party; complete with pig roast.  As we prepared and packed, it was easy for me to choose to take along my current pair of socks just in case an opportunity to knit would present itself.  (Pig roast, grad parties, and visiting with family generally doesn't present a lot of spare knitting time.) 

In this case though, a small amount presented itself.  Panda volunteered to drive the first leg of our trip.  Two hours of knitting opportunity. Cool!  I pulled the sock from my bag and proceeded to finish Kai-Mei’s heel flap.  Then on to turning the heel…and that’s when I remembered…the plan was to switch to one size smaller needles for knitting the foot of this particular sock.  Did I remember to pack another size of needles? Nope. What to do? This was twenty minutes into my two hour knitting window? What’s a knitter to do?

I could have knit on and just had the sock foot be larger than necessary.  I could have sat and not knit for the remaining time (sacrilegious as it would be).  That’s when it came to me…cast on the second sock.  It would mean working the pair of socks from both ends of the skein.  Why not?  The rest of my life these days seems to be running on a “working from both ends of the skein” type mentality!  

Not a problem. Just put the live stitches on a bit of waste yarn (because, of course, there weren’t any stitch holders packed on this trip).  Just get out the Chibi that is always neatly tucked in my purse…where it didn’t get replaced!  What to do!?! What would “M” do? (“M” could be that MacGyver-guy or maybe even that McPhee-lady!) So I spent a few minutes trying to come up with some ingenious way to get stitches onto waste yarn without the use of a needle.  I wish that I could tell you that I figured it out.  Instead, a miracle…a spare darning needle was tucked in with my traveling scissors. Phew!  Knitting emergency avoided.

The second sock was cast on and those two hours ended up being the ONLY two hours of knitting throughout the weekend. (A truly exceptional weekend it was, too!)  Now my knitting involves both ends of the skein.  Truly, what could be more appropriate for my current status!?! 

Comments

[tini]

Hey, you should be starring in the next James Bond!
Actually you could put stitches on waste yarn by pulling it thru the loops with the knitting needles

[Cosmis Sis]

You are SO awesome!!