Thinking About Starting to Get Ready

I'm at the very early stages of planning a trip up to Boston* next month, and if you know me, you won't be surprised that after flights and telling friends, my next thought was what knitting to bring.
*By which I really mean New England, not the city itself

My current project is going well---it's the Beachy Keen shawl that I mentioned I might do---but the stripes mean I need 7 balls of yarn to work on it for more than a few rows, so that's out for travel knitting.

It's coming along well, though!

It took a bit of time to get a hold of how to do the trickiest rows, but it's now social knitting. Just not travel knitting.

However, Dawn Barker, the doyenne of assigned pooling projects (like the Roam shawl I did in 2022), has a new pattern out, called Swell, and I thought it would fit the bill. Like the edge of Roam, it mimics linen stitch, which I like the look of, and I have two skeins of an assigned pooling yarn from Wonderland that I could use.

I started it now, even though I'm not traveling until late May, because if it didn't work as travel knitting, I would still have time to figure something else out. But it's going to be just fine.

So that's one thing crossed off the list---just one thing, but an important one!