Holiday knitting - started with drama, ended with rainbows

It's important to me to have the right project for holiday knitting. Something simple enough to knit at a bush campsite, entertaining enough to keep me happy when travelling and most importantly enough knitting to get me through - in the case of our recent trip, 11 days. Because we were hiking I wanted to keep it as light as possible.

I left deciding what to knit quite late this trip. A couple of days before, I decided on Joji's Old Romance cardigan. It starts with contrast colour shoulder panels, and I had a beautiful colour picked out for the lace. I was a little concerned about the lace, but it's relatively simple. While winding the yarn, I thought that all the colour was at one end. I started knitting from both ends of the ball and it looks like this:

That wasn't going to work! (I will use the yarn for a faded Love Note later)

I grabbed two skeins of self striping rainbow sock yarn basically as we were walking out the door. For the first part of our trip I knit a Mussleborough hat. I love it. I love how it's reversible, and it's very nice to make a sock weight hat that actually keeps the ears warm. I knit it exactly to pattern - if I was making it again I would make it significantly longer, to provide a good turn up. I wore it pretty much the entire time we were in Warrnambool.

Then I cast on a pair of rainbow socks, using the SHaG heel by Sarah Jordan - my go-to sock heel for self striping yarn.

I got the second sock to the toe increases on the train home and ran out of yarn. I had another skein at home, but it would have been tidy to finish them on the way.

So, a satisfying trip, and now I am knitting Old Romance, doing the lace with a yarn that looks the same at each end of the ball!

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