I use to dread the flights over the Atlantic or Pacific Oceans until I started knitting. This is optimal knitting time. My non-knitting friends ask, “How/what do you knit on an airplane?”
Once the aircraft takes off, and the seatbelt light switches off, I either cast on my stitches for a pair of socks.
or pick up stitches from a WIP*
*note: if I am knitting a work in progress, I will thread a length of waste yarn through the stitches before I pack my knitting in my carry-on
On an Air Canada flight to Toronto, I was working on a pair of footies and one of the flight crew asked to see the pattern I was knitting from. I showed her the downloaded pattern from fpea’s blog, then looked for her pen, to write down the website for herself.
Chic with Stix’s Hints and Tips to On Flight Knitting
1) Request an aisle seat whenever possible. This makes it easier to crouch down and look for that dpn you just dropped.
2) Once the aircraft has taken off, and the seatbelt light is switched off, lift the arm rest. This will give you a little more elbow room when knitting.
3) Knit small and easy projects.
4) Organise your knitting paraphernalia so that it is easily accessible. Therefore make use of the seat pocket in front of your seat.
5) Consider your safety and the safety of other passengers during air turbulance, stop knitting and put your needles down. Also, do not knit during take off and landing.
next week: Chic with Stix goes shopping for souvenir yarn
Ahh, the best laid plans. Alas, we didn’t knit a single stitch on the planes this last few weeks. I think that it’s just a bit too cramped for us.