...I have today, and I have the first part of tomorrow, and then I'm on my way.
I've already packed up the poster, so it's ready to go. I do have to figure out what clothing to bring - something dressier for the poster day, but I'll also need field clothes (including field boots, which are huge and heavy) for the field trip.
I've got the projects I'm taking sort of loosely figured out. I wound off the yarn for the reversible slouch hat in Knitting 24/7, and I dug out the yarn for the armwarmers.
I also think I'm going to try toe-up socks again. Veronik Avery has a pattern in "Knitting 24/7," where she solves what I regard as two of the major problems I have with toe-up socks:
1. It uses a heel flap, which I like, rather than the "hourglass" type heel, which fits me badly.
2. Instead of the tight, fiddly, figure-8 cast on, she has you do a provisional cast-on, and then Kitchener stitch the toe at the end, after removing the provisional cast-on.
I have some nice Claudia Handpaints yarn (bought in a fit of buying from Simply Sock Yarn when she had a number of the colorways on a good sale) in a color called "Strawberry Latte" - pink with cream and a little brown. I think that will be the toe-up socks.
I also started the Midsummernight's Dream crochet shawl from the new Interweave Crochet, but am finding it sufficiently fiddly that I think it's going to be a "work on it at home" project. (Also, I'm afraid of it getting unraveled in transit).
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Wendy's Socks from the Toe up has two gusset type heels as well as a couple of starts. I am currently knitting my way through it.
That's basically how I start toe-up socks -- a comfortable number of stitches (12 or 16) on a temporary cast-on. But I finish it by undoing the cast-on, picking up the stitches, and doing K 2 together around till I am down to 6 or 8 for a drawstring toe: run the thread through the loops and pull tight.
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