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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.

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Classic Dishcloth Knitting Patterns

Fall will be here before we know it, and that means there are holidays coming right behind where we might be entertaining at home. It’s always fun to have a hand knit touch in your home for other people to see, and if you’re going to be in the kitchen all day you might as well have some nice knit dish cloths to use. 

I love this little plaid hand towel from Darling Jadore. Use a little bit of leftover cotton yarn from another project for the plaid portion. It looks like the horizontal stripes are worked as you knit and the vertical stripes are done with duplicate stitch, making this a quick and easy project even newer knitters can make. 

Combine garter stitch and an easy eyelet pattern worked sideways to make the Annette Dish Towel from Cluck Cluck Boots, which is meant to be reminiscent of flour sack towels. It calls for DK weight yarn and you can work it in one color or two (or even three!). 

Add a little more texture with this set of kitchen towels from Whileberry Creative. They’re mostly worked in garter stitch with borders in easy knit/purl patterns, and you can work them in sport or worsted weight yarn. 

Two of Wands Shop has another cute allover knit and purl pattern they call the Seersucker Textured Tea Towel. It’s an easy repeating pattern worked in worsted weight yarn, and there’s a chart in the pattern you can use, but don’t have to, if you want to practice knitting from a chart. 

The Classic Cloth dish towel from Handmade Home by Connie is another one that can use a little leftover yarn in a contrasting color, or you could color block it our use stripes throughout the pattern. This one uses worsted weight yarn and another easy repeating knit purl stitch pattern. 

If you like to hang your towel on the oven handle or elsewhere but it’s always falling off, try the Stay Put kitchen towel from Fancy Step Knits. This project is worked in garter stitch and includes a hole partway through so you can pull the towel through itself over a rod or handle. Stripes are optional but a nice addition.