Unraveled, October 21st

Joining with Kat and friends today to talk about knitting and reading.

This is the current state of the Musselburgh Hat I started with the Cider Moon Farm yarn after I frogged the socks because the yarn wasn’t to my liking for the pattern. I deliberately got it to the round and round stage before I left on my trip so that I would have plenty of mindless knitting to work on while traveling.

While this isn’t technically unraveled, you may notice a lack of knitting needle. I made it with my knitting in tact from Boston to Istanbul, from Istanbul to Athens, and from Athens back to Istanbul. But when I went through security to go from Istanbul back to Boston, an overjealous (in my opinion) security agent took my knitting needles. Both the 16 inch one that the stitches were on and the 32 inch one I had with me as a spare. They were Addi turbos. IYKYK.

The truly ironic thing is that I barely knit on this at all while on my trip but was really looking forward to knitting and watching movies on the 10 hour flight from Istanbul to Boston. The irony. It burns.

As for reading, I am currently loving Whale Harbor by Mary Beth Keane. I have an ARC but it was published yesterday so it should be readily available for borrowing from the library. I’m only about 1/3 of the way through it but at this point I confidently recommend it.

What are you knitting and reading this week?

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Comments (9)

  1. I think that yarn will look great as a Musselburgh once you get some more needles. Darn that security agent! I could have happily read more about the family in Whale Harbor even after the book ended.

  2. Oh man. The sting of those confiscated needles… it burns! I hope that you get replacement needles inserted and continue on your way with your Musselburgh! Thanks for the reminder to get on the library waitlist for that new book!

  3. The decision to confiscate things seems completely arbitrary to me. Do they confiscate pencils and pens? I could put someone’s eye out or jam either of those into someone’s neck. Just saying! I’m sorry that happened to you, Carole. I am looking forward to seeing progress on your hat. I think that yarn will be lovely for a hat. Whale Harbor is going onto my wait list.

    1. That’s what I always thought about pens and pencils. A lot of damage could be done by them.

  4. Oooh, I would have had a hard time on that flight. And I’m sorry about the needles.

    Once on a cross country flight, I had my knitting and a book book (not kindle). No “screen” at my seat. And the overhead light at my seat was out of order. I thought I would go out of my MIND. I did get a credit from the airlines when I complained.

  5. I am so sorry you had your needles confiscated! What a pain!!!! I usually drag my knitting along when I travel . . . and then never end up knitting a stitch. But I’ve never had anyone take my needles!!!! I’d be fuming . . . (but well-behaved, of course).

  6. Wow. Just wow. That’s a bummer, Carole. I thought security was more lax in Europe, but I suppose it depends on where. I always have knitting with me when I travel & have never once had anything confiscated. It’s usually something on DPNs (anything on long straight needles goes in checked luggage), and I always have at least a start on whatever the project is. I just went to Denver & had TWO projects on DPNs in my bag — Junah got “special treatment” because of some gel squishy toy things he had, but not me! I had a passenger question my use of DPNs once, but I pointed out that it wasn’t any different than a pencil or pen. TBH, I rarely do any knitting on vacation… I’m prepared, though!

  7. I’m so sorry about the needle confiscation — and Addis, too! I’ve never had an issue flying domestically, but I’ve heard some other countries are less understanding of knitters needing to work on their knitting. The irony here, of course, is that Addi Turbos are really too blunt to do much damage!

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