Travel Knitting: Holey Chevrons

Last week I did some traveling for work.

Like usual, I prepared a project to start at the airport while waiting for my departure flight. I paired some fingering yarn I dyed a couple months ago with Stephen West's Holey Chevrons pattern.

From such humble beginnings. This is how many shawls begin, just a simple garter tab. The pattern is designed to be done in alternating stripes, but I wanted to use my long color-change yarn. Easy enough change. 

I made pretty good progress waiting for my departure flight. 

By the time I had reached my destination I was really pleased with my progress. 

This trip had a bunch of driving around to get from place to place, and one of my travel partners did the driving, so I could keep working on my shawl. 

This is where I was by the time I headed back tot he airport to return home. 

This is where I was after we had landed in Baltimore and the jetway wasn't working. Our early arrival (about 15 minutes) was defeated by the jetway. 

By Sunday morning I was into the second ball of yarn and really looking forward to the chevrons part of this project. The rows are pretty long now (about 500+ stitches) so it is slow going. As projects go, this one is a winner. Projects that don't take too much thought make great travel knitting.

Knitter's Pride 4/3.5mm Dreamz Fixed Circular Needles, 32" (affiliate link)