While Maui is an awesome place for a vacation, it requires a lot of travel time to get there from here, so it seemed like a perfect time to try out some knitting on a plane. (And it turns out that pictures taken on a moving plane tend to come out a bit blurry.)I had just finished my Insidious Death Socks and Xandermommy's Blue Flame Waffle Socks, so I decided to cast on some new socks just for vacation travel. I was looking forward to trying out the Leyburn socks and thought they might help break up the colors in my yarn of choice, some sport weight Merino Superwash from Family Pendragon. Since these were my first toe-up socks I decided to work the first cast-on at home the day before we left. I'm so very thankful that I did because it turns out I can't crochet to save my life!! The recommended provisional cast-on was a crochet method and despite the help of several online video tutorials and two different sizes of crochet hooks I never got more than 2 loops on the hook before dropping the whole mess. After more than an hour of struggling I finally switched to an entirely different provisional cast on (hopefully I'll find the link to the video again soon and edit to link it here) that worked like the familiar long tail cast on and I was off and knitting short rows with no further problems. Whew!
So I boarded the first plane with the beginnings of a sock toe and by the time we landed in Maui I had turned the first heel. I didn't knit continuously on the flights since I was trying to get some sleep in anticipation of the 6-hour time change, too. And then that was pretty much it for knitting. After all, when this is just a few feet from your condo:
you find a lot of other things to do and spend a lot of time outside! The overnight flights and the time change also meant that I slept for the majority of the flights home, too. So my Maui Fire Dancer Socks found their inspiration with anticipation of Maui but will be worked mostly on the mainland. And that works out perfectly for me.
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