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After working on socks in the car during the day, I wanted a different project to work on during evenings in the hotel.  This Shapely Shawlette from a pattern by Judy Pascale was just the thing.  The yarn is sock yarn from JWrayCo in Lerwick Harbor Purple.  It turned out the perfect size for an accent shoulder shawl, and the pattern was really easy to memorize.

I didn’t have it quite finished when we got back, and I was searching through my dresser looking for something else when I unearthed these beads.  What a perfect match for my almost-finished shawlette!!  Serendipity!!!  I added them to the bind off row and voila!  What do you think?

Now that I’ve caught up with everything that piled up while I was on vacation I can catch  you up on my travel knitting.

Socks are always my favorite car project.  I can knit, talk, and watch the scenery all at the same time.  On this trip I learned that I can also babysit the GPS while working on a pair of socks.  [By the way, the GPS has been named “Shirley” because my husband kept saying, “Surely, she’s crazy!”]

The pattern is a simple 8-stitch repeat that I could keep just by watching the results.  It spirals around the foot like the Blue Ridge Parkway curls through the mountains.  When it was time for the foot, the pattern decided that it needed to use switchbacks to climb from the toe to the ankle.

We were on the way home while I was knitting the second sock, so it had to spiral the opposite direction.  After all, balance is the keep to a happy existence, right?

P.S.  The yarn is Crazyfoot from Mountain Colors, and the design will be available the last week in July.

Gotcha!  No, I’m still here in North America, but I am casting on a short-sleeved summer sweater in Tahiti yarn from KFI.  The colorway with the white background has been calling me for months, and I’m finally giving in.  The pattern is Ariel from Knit N Style magazine June 2010 issue.

If I finish this quickly, I may offer Daughter a sleeveless tank in one of the other colors.  I think the pink would look great on her.