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Holiday Knitting.

All the sitting and standing in line at WorldCon, by the way, meant prime knitting time for me - and I think I haven't ever had two weeks of holidays in which I have knitted so much.

I left the mostly-finished Moyen Age sweater at home, because a knit-in-one-piece-seamlessly thing, even in a small size, is not a good thing for travel knitting. Instead, I packed up the blue silk yarn I bought back in July, together with a print-out of a simple pattern for a jacket with a bit of a very basic lace pattern, and that was my holiday knitting.

The knitting necessities for that (and just that) - the pattern, a crochet hook in case of Bad Things Happening, a darning needle, a measuring tape, stitch markers, a key to tighten the screw-on tips (because if you don't bring one, they will loosen up), my row counter ring, and of course needles and one ball of yarn went into my little Exploding Tardis knitting bag. (Usually there's also a piece of emergency chocolate in there, but I ate it before the journey. It had gotten rather old, and needed to go.)

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So there was knitting - on the way to the airport, in our apartment in Helsinki, in cafés, and in the lines at the WorldCon as well as at the Stitch'n'Bitch they had there. And in most of the panels I went to, as they were talking people only, and if you're not tall and seated quite far in the back, you can't see the speakers anyway.

The choice of pattern proved to be a good one for knitting like that, as it is really quite simple - no waist shaping, very little armhole shaping, and the lace pattern is basic and easily remembered, not needing much attention at all. I did change the shoulder and neckline shaping a little, based on the Vignette cardi, as the original pattern just binds off straight, and that seemed a little bit too boxy to me - but these things were rather quickly done, and did not need too much attention either, or were knit when I was able to concentrate.

Which means that I left home with the pattern and six balls of yarn, and came back with the body of the jacket all knit, and parts of the first sleeve, too.

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It got a bit of blocking for the body parts, and here they are, partly sewn up already - waiting for the sleeves to go in and the neckband to be knitted on. And in case you were ever wondering whether blocking is a good idea, or really changes things? Here's a picture of the unblocked sleeve beside the blocked parts (folded up):

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Even though it doesn't change the measurements of the finished piece, it does make a world of a difference appearance-wise. About one hundred more rows to go on the second sleeve, and then... more sewing together, and knitting the neckband. Yay!

The pattern, by the way, is called Baton Rouge. Which meant I had an earworm many, many times!
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