Trekking Around the World…

In Houston, it is just too hot to go hiking. At least you can’t really go hiking outdoors. Instead, Julia came to visit from Austin last weekend, and Katy & I met up with her. We went on a Fiber Crawl, visiting both Yarntopia and Yarns 2 Ewe. Then we went to Ikea. Ikeeeeeaaaaaa! I had not visited the new, much larger Ikea since they remodeled it. Goodness, it is HUGE. We trekked around Ikea for an hour or two. My Trekking yarn has not made it onto the needles yet, but it went with me!

I’ll be taking it with me to London, so it will probably make it onto the needles at the airport today. I was doing well with restricting my fiber packing, and then Chris pointed out that the yarn stores overseas are not like what we are used to in the US. Great. Just great. Did I mention that I tend to overpack? Yeah. Now I keep thinking of things I want to bring. I keep reminding myself that I am sure that I will see sock yarn that I love, so it will all be ok. It is barely working.

In the knitting bag for the trip:
– The half finished Clapotis made in Lorna’s Laces Lion & Lamb, Lakeview. (That is a lot of L’s!)
– The Trekking socks
– The P socks for Tara (Potatomus? Pomatomus? Goodness, I can never remember the name.)
– The first two skeins of yarn for my Eris sweater. Yes, I am finally making a sweater.
– Possibly one more yarn for socks, because a skein is small and easy to carry around as needed.

My big debate? Bringing a hank of roving and the drop spindle. Every time I spin, I seem to get congested, so I’m just not sure if I want to deal with that while traveling. But spinning is so much fun!

I just need to keep telling myself, “I am not Ginger, the movie-star. I can survive without my evening wear. It is just a 3-hour boat tour using a rented newport beach boat rental.”