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Tips for Packing Your Travel Knitting

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I was recently on vacation, which involved trips up 12 hours in the car there and back.

Being a knitter, of course I saw that as prime knitting time.

I always have a little anxiety around what knitting to pack when I’m going on a trip, and I don’t always make the best choices. This time around I had nothing planned until the night before we left!

It all worked out pretty well, and I decided to write up my tips for building your travel knitting bag over on my blog.

It’s important to consider how long you’ll be gone and how much travel time you have to work with, what kind of projects you like when traveling and what other supplies you will need for your chosen projects.

How many projects do you take with you when you travel? Any good travel knitting tips?

[Photo: Our Daily Craft.]

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  1. For road trips I can bring my usual 3 or so projects. Sometimes I’ll start new projects on a trip. I usually try to bring a variety that includes something challenging and something a little more mindless that doesn’t require a lot of thought. For trips that involve air travel it depends on how long I’m going, and what else I will be doing. On my last trip I brought a pair of socks that include cables, and a project that involved stockinette in the round where I didn’t even need to carry the pattern with me. I had air and train travel, and a day in the city where I didn’t want to worry about a pattern in addition to my project.

Have you read?

Beyond Basic Pumpkin Knitting Patterns

Over the years I have shared a lot of pumpkin knitting patterns, and I’ve knit and crocheted a lot of pumpkins myself. But it feels like there are always more fun things to try with knit pumpkins, so this year I wanted to look a little more beyond basic stockinette or ribbed pumpkins and share some pumpkin patterns with cables, bobbles and colorwork. 

In the cable collection we’ve got these cute little basic cable and ribbed pumpkins from Elly Bear Knits. There are two sizes that make a wide, flat pumpkin and a taller round pumpkin. Both are worked in the round as a tube that’s cinched top and bottom when you’re done, and they use bulky weight yarn. 

Another cute cable pumpkin knitting pattern comes from Gray Bear Akswokrat. This one is knit flat and it looks like a chunky yarn but you could use other weights to make pumpkins of different sizes. This one also has an I-cord stem and uses yarn to cinch up the sections of the pumpkin, giving it a more natural look. 

Add some bobbles to your pumpkins with this design from Autumn Shelter Makes. Also worked in the round in a tube, it features a repeating pattern of bobbles and uses yarn wrapped around the outside to make segments. This one looks like worsted weight yarn to me. 

Of course there’s nothing that says your pumpkin has to be a single color, so let’s throw in some colorwork. I love the look of the Cozy Fall Pumpkin knitting pattern from South Stitch Girls. The little leather loop adds a rustic touch but you could also just add a stick. These pumpkins have five colorwork options and are worked in worsted weight yarn in the round. 

There’s also the Autumn Fair Isle Trio pumpkins pattern from Equestriann Style, which has three different sizes of pumpkins with four colorwork designs. They are worked in super bulky yarn in the round and look good with high contrast or more muted color combinations.