all good projects go to the promised land

I am going to Israel for a conference next week. I really don't understand the topography of Israel, so I had no idea where things are in relation to each other until I asked a friend, "How hard is it to get from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem?". Her answer? "About as hard as getting from New York to New Jersey, only better". 

Sounds good. I'm packing now, and while I might take the still ugly (but growing) pin-tuck tee to New Jersey, it is not going to Israel. Conference knitting should not be aggravating, since it's hard enough to sit for hours listening to talks.

Which means that I am packing pleasurable projects. Three, since any one of them has the potential to become an unpleasurable project.  

Here's a preview:

 

This will be NaKniSweMoDo eight if it doesn't sneak past pin-tuck. Then again, if I come to grips with the fact that I really don't like to knit striped sweaters, and these colors don't really do it for me, this yarn will end up sitting in a suitcase for a week.   I'm knitting this kind of free-form, loosely following a pattern for a sweater that looks kinda like the sweater I'm envisioning. This sort of thing is always risky. While I can't resist the utter softness of this yarn that's been holed up in my stash for a while now, I fear that all I will ever really want to do with this yarn is to pet it.

 

I've had five skeins of pale blue-gray Malabrigo lace in my stash for quite a while. I just got what is either a truly wonderful or truly terrible idea for how to use it, and this will either be a great conference knitting endeavor or a total bust. Fortunately, it's tiny and if it spends the week in a corner of my bag, no harm done. And anything this tactilely tempting deserves better than New Jersey. My final project is the sure thing:

I am sneaking in the lace projects when I can. This is the beginnings of Muir, in soft and supple Sundara silk lace. Conference knitting and lace go together like, well, felafel and tahini. After la Principessa, I'm not sure I have time to finish twelve sweaters this year and another shawl, but hey, if those other two projects give me trouble, I may just have to take a lace detour.

I guesss it looks pretty obvious that I'm setting myself up to do just that.....the sweater thing is getting to me.

Comments

[elizabeth]

All your projects look great! I hope you have a wonderful trip!

[ruth]

Hey, KV, no picking on NJ! If you do that, I shall set the vrittis upon you!

What a wonderful trip! Enjoy and knit and relax.

[Anna]

The Muir looks sublime already, that would definitely be the one that called to me! Have a great trip.