In the Air

The idea of getting on an airplane has been rather scary since the pandemic began.  But, the pretend trip on Sharon Air has been super fun!  I started Clue 2 yesterday.  Here is how things looked after Clue 1:

I enjoy working on my knitting on the patio, weather permitting.  It was not permitting this morning.  There was a thick steamy fog, everything was damp, and I found this massive, perfect spider web where I usually sit:

Those conditions convinced me to be indoors for this morning's knitting.  Brown Cat decided to join me.

  

Waiting to be airborne

I've got my yarn picked out for Sharon Air.  The skeins are sitting there, patiently in a row, wondering why I haven't made them into cakes yet.  

This is more of the bamboo/wool blend yarn that Oogy and I enjoyed dyeing earlier this summer.  The colors of these skeins are inspired by the wildflowers that grow along the highway in Vermont in mid-July.  Cornflowers, Queen Anne's Lace, the dried out grass, and various bright yellow flowers, including Goldenrod and Black Eyed Susans.  I used a dilute solution of "lavender" to make the cornflower blue, speckled-dyed with "sangria" to approximate the tiny reddish-purple center of Queen Anne's lace, "straw" for the dried-out grass, and a dilute solution of "golden yellow" for the yellow flowers.  

I purposefully left out green, but I am feeling a bit uncertain about that now.  

In the meantime, I am working on a center-out project, and I'm on the outer bands of it now.  Each row is over 400 stitches and takes forever!  The finished object will be nice, but I won't say much about it in case the recipient is looking...I'll just give a little peak of the center. I'm not a huge fan of using stitch markers, but they are essential for this project, and there are 23 of them.