Traveling Socks

My Maui Fire Dancer socks are definitely my most traveled knitting so far, although this time they only went to a concert. We had lawn "seats" for the No Doubt with Paramore concert and since we were trying to get there early to stake out a good spot, I wanted to take something along to knit in case of a long wait for things to get started. I didn't want to take anything that would require any significant amount of concentration or counting and although I had originally planned to take something smaller and new to work on, I found that one of my new circular needle tips wouldn't tighten and needed to be returned. So, the sock that was already almost finished got to see the light of day again.

I was a little concerned that I might not make it through security with knitting needles, even though they were the wooden toothpick-like variety, but I stashed them in a smaller makeup bag within my main bag that security didn't even bother to open, so no problem there. But, it turns out the long wait wasn't too long and it was hard to avoid the people-watching because the atrocious outfits seemed to be at an all time high for this particular concert, so I only managed to knit a few rows before Paramore hit the stage and then the knitting was packed away for the rest of the show.

It was a great show and the audience was definitely revved up for it, all 25,000 people or so! Unfortunately, some sort of accident or just the sheer numbers overwhelmed the parking area somehow so that those of us that arrived earlier and were parked furthest in were stuck waiting for an hour before anyone could move. That's when the knitting came in very handy - definitely therapeutic to have something nice to do while other people are loudly griping about firing the parking attendants and promising to swear at them on their way out. The three of us in our car just settled in to wait, listened to the radio, and then laughed at the fact that the entire parking area was nearly completely emptied before our poor little entrenched area was finally able to move out. It was a really fun night, but a late one after that!