Fiber Monday - Art exhibits and trip knitting

I've been getting my submissions ready for Fine Line Creative Arts Center's student exhibition. I'll be submitting the scarf I wove in my first weaving class, 


the twill gamp I wove after the twill class 


I took, and a display of dyed wool from the dye class I took. 



I'll drop them off tomorrow. 

The other thing I've been working on is figuring out what knitting I'm taking with me. Because you know that you can't travel without a knitting project, right? (You also can't travel without books, so I've located the Kindle and put some books on it. Never fear.) But we're talking knitting. I didn't want to bring the shawl I'm working on because it's a bit fussy and I'm close enough to the end that I don't want to run out of actual knitting. So I searched through my stash and found a bag of 1000 meters of  Noro yarn that I bought on sale a while back. I then found a free knitting pattern to go along with it. It should be fairly straightforward so easy knitting. Here's my swatch.


For once I'm actually knitting a season ahead so there is a chance I could actually finish the project before fall which is definitely the colors of this yarn. A couple more steps down to actually being ready to leave on Wednesday.

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