The trip was mostly a driving trip – with Joel doing all of the driving. I of course brought too many projects (you never know!) I ended up knitting the linen shawl in the car and working on the hexie quilt at night.
I made a lot of progress, I’m ‘only’ 26 rows from the end, of course every row gets much longer. 
An ah hah moment. Years ago I tried to follow a chart to make this kind of netting. I gave up in frustration. Turns out the it’s a double yarn-over and on the purl side you need to knit and purl into it in order to create 2 stitches. The learning never ends.
Unblocked lace looks like a big hot mess. Also, the needle isn’t that long so I can’t even stretch it out to see the effect. I’m pretty sure I’ll be very pleased with the end result. The final pattern calls for beads, since I’m back home, I think I will use them.
On Instagram I updated the progress of the hexie quilt.
Sewing hexies is very very addicting. It’s like potato chip knitting, you can’t stop with one. I’m trying to keep in mind that this will be a full size quilt so I don’t want the color areas to be too small, but I’m sort of setting the size here, so that as the quilt goes it has a unified feel. Time will tell.
The box is still pretty full, almost looks like I haven’t made much of a dent.
Leah