Sticks on a plane

So okay, on the way out to lovely Monterey for the conference, I must, simply must have a project for what turned out to be a 10 hour trip. And a good thing I was so obsessive too: AA 0003 sat on the runway for 1:45 before even taking off, which meant, of course, that I missed the connecting flight to MRY, thereby leaving me stranded at LAX for 3 hours. And then there was the prop plane to MRY...it was time to bite the bullet and begin to use the dreary Lion Cotton Denim Swirl I bought years ago. (Well hey, I do have a great-nephew now...)

On the bright side, I came up with a new use for those fancy fabric shoe bags from ritzy hotels.

Not surprisingly I got very bored with that project (gee, can you tell that I don't like the yarn?) so on the way back (a mere 6 hour trip) I switched to a different project with some yarn I really DO like.

This is the beginning of a pair of Whistler Wrist Warmers for a perpetually chilly friend, enabled by my day of hookie at Monarch Knitting on Tuesday, where I bought some Inox 2s and another Japanese brand of 2s which I'd never seen before (I had brought dpns with me, but forgot how much I hated using them).

And now, time to go have dinner with my sweetie.