Having been away visiting the Netherlands and a little bit of Belgium, has meant lots of travel knitting. I did a little secret knitting that I can’t show you, but other than that my knitting turned out to be rather like Henry Ford’s, you can have any colour you like as long as it’s black – but in my case it was brown.
Knowing there’d be a fair amount of driving in the dark, I cast on a fair isle yoked sweater in Jacob wool before we left, so I would have something I could knit even when I couldn’t see what I was doing. I worked on it after dark on the first two days, on the way to Dover, through Belgium and into the Netherlands, and on the way home from Dover. Here’s how far I got…
However the first thing I started on when we left home in daylight was a Christmas pudding…
Next morning I knitted a few more puddings on the Ferry…
Once in the Netherlands, we were busy most of the time, but any quiet moment was filled with knitting leaves and berries…
I also made sure I complete one pudding before we reached Utrecht to give to Lovely Eldest.
When we left Utrecht to drive to Bruge, I began the sleeve of the fair isle sweater, and also knitted it when we drove from Bruge to Dunkirk. I got this far…
As we sat and waited for the ferry, I stuffed my puddings…
… then I added the leaves and berries on the ferry.
I’m craving some more colourful knitting now I’m home!
Dartmoor Creative - Bekki Hill 
Wow that’s a lot of jumper that you got finished.
The Christmas puddings are so cute.
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Thank you. We had a couple of dreadful long journeys in horrible weather and I think I knitted faster to deal with the stress!
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Lol a very productive way to deal with stress 🙂
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🙂
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That’s almost like a working holiday! Lovely results though 🙂
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Thank you. Ha ha! Yes, better point that out to hubby 🙂
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those puddings are adorable!
And the sweater is moving along amazingly – good for you knitting brown in the dark! Not sure I would try that!
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Thank you. My theory is that brown is the same as any other colour when you can’t see it 🙂
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That’s a good theory!
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🙂
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Cute little puddings 🎄
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Thank you 🙂
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Knitting in the dark is not a skill that I have acquired! Those puddings are so cute ❤
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Thank you. You probably spent your youth more wisely 🙂
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The sweater is looking perfect, and going very fast. But the best is the puddings!! They are just adorable.
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Thank you. I am a little addicted to making puddings 🙂
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What delightful little puddings they are! Respect to you, I can’t do anything in the car other than focus on not getting car sick!
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Thank you. Your car trips don’t sound any fun at all. Maybe if you learnt to knit in the dark, you could then knit in the car without looking, but have something to concentrate on to help with car sickness?
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I’ve tried lots of things… but not knitting! lol
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I am with Fred the needle, I would get car sick if I was knitting in the car. That said, I love the Christmas pud tree decorations, and well done on knitting so much of your jumper.
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Thank you. Could you crochet in the car? I’ve spotted you crocheting without looking.
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Can’t beat some road trip crafting Bekki! And I do that drive from Calais to The Netherlands on a regular basis so love the fact that I get some precious crochet time in too…(unless we swap driving for a while!!) 🙂 🙂
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I try to avoid driving – after all hubby doesn’t knit while I drive, so he’s not missing anything by driving. 🙂
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Absolutely! My hubby isn’t a great passenger either so it really is him who does most of the driving which suits me just fine!! 😊😊
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🙂
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Love seeing the progress, esp made me smile when I saw the little swirls of green and red before they became berries and leaves!
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Funny you should say that, there was something very appealing to me too about the bag of leaves and berries 🙂
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I love to knit when I travel. I get so much accomplished. I’m always worried my needles will be confiscated but hasn’t happened yet. I look forward to following you
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Hello! Thanks for commenting and for following. I’ve yet to have needles confiscated either – although I always take wooden circulars and small projects to make them less threatening.
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I chanced it with metal sock needles this fall. Phew!
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Braver than me 🙂
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Those Christmas puddings are very cute! I’ve just returned to knitting after a long break and my first project was a family of snowmen. They’re all tucked away until next Christmas, and who knows, there might be a knitted Christmas pudding waiting to tempt them out of hibernation.
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hello. thanks for commenting. Isn’t it funny how food can be cute, and cute is definitely word people apply to the Christmas pudding kit 🙂 I kept meaning to work on a snowman kit last year, but never managed it. I do like knitting things that are spherical 🙂
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Cute puddings!
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Thank you. I did fall in love with them myself 🙂
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