Are you traveling this summer? Surely you want to take a knitting project with you to while away those travel hours in a car or on a plane. My Sister Knits has some ideas for you!

For most of us, travel knitting is a category of its own. I have several requirements for these projects. I want them to take up as little room as possible, so that means lightweight yarn. I only want to use one color at a time; no juggling two balls of yarn! I want my project to have a very simple stitch with little to no counting. I have to be able to put it down and pick it up again easily.

While we have many lightweight yarn options, Knitting for Olive is a great one. Their fingering is a light fingering weight in their Merino, Pure Silk, and Cotton Merino bases. Biches + Buches Le Petit Lambswool is another light fingering. We also have some gorgeous DK weight yarns for your travel consideration! And, on the other end of the scale, how about knitting with Ito Sensai or any of our Suri alpaca yarns or Knitting for Olive Soft Silk Mohair by themselves?

We have pattern suggestions! Would you like to dip your toe into some fun and easy Sequence Knitting that creates a gorgeous texture? Cecelia Campochiaro’s Hamaya has a super simple stitch repeat that will keep you interested. Every row is worked with the same sequence of K4, P2 repeated to the end with a Kbfb at the end of every row. You may or may not finish the sequence but when you get to the last stitch you always Kbfb. You start every row with the K4, P2 and you’re off and running! I can imagine this would be stunning in Knitting for Olive Pure Silk.

There are two Churchmouse patterns we recommend for any mohair or suri yarn: Pretty Perfect Square and Mohair Bias Loop. Pretty Perfect Square calls for a size 3 needle and the Mohair Bias Loop calls for size 10 ½! Mohair Bias Loop wraps around your neck twice for the most lightweight, coziest cowl ever!

Ito Sensai bright colors, there are many other colors to choose from!

An Italian Summer Scarf, designed by An Italian Knitter, is a free pattern that can work with any yarn. You increase until you’ve used half your yarn and then you decrease! If I was doing this as a travel project and wasn’t going to cart my scale along on my travels, I’d divide the yarn into two balls which we are happy to do for you!

Stephen West’s Pogona shawl is an oldie but a goodie! There are three sections, all knit or purl. The only counting you need to do is setting it up in section 1 and measuring the shawl before you move on to sections 2 and 3.

If you’d like to make something different, we have two DK weight poncho ideas for you. They are each worked in two pieces and you can do the finishing work when you get home! Ibantik, designed by Tayler Harris, is worked in reverse stockinette with a 1x1 ribbed center panel. Aalto, designed by Shellie Anderson, is stockinette only. The right yarn makes this pattern sing! Hold the skein you’re considering upright in your hand. Does it fall over and ‘flop’? If there’s a good amount of flop, it will work. If it stands up straight, you won’t get the drape you need for this poncho.

We hope this information inspires you when thinking of a travel project! We encourage you to give yourself plenty of time ahead of your trip to decide what project will rise to the top as your travel project!

Happy knitting,

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