Travel Packing Tips (Carry-on Only)
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- Опубліковано 27 чер 2024
- Pairs Well With Knitting: Travel Packing Tips
I love packing! Over the years, I have refined my packing strategy to include carry-on only, be it for a week away or a month. I share what to bring, how to organise the contents of your bags and of course, travelling knitting tips!
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Knitwear I’m Packing
🧶Sorrel Sweater www.ravelry.com/patterns/libr...
Designed by: Wool & Pine
Yarn: Rauma Finull in 4069
🧶Anker’s Sweater My Size www.ravelry.com/patterns/libr...
Designed by: Petite Knit
Yarn: Lettlopi by Istex Colour 86
🧶Wild Posy: Flora www.ravelry.com/patterns/libr...
Designed by: Melody Hoffmann
Yarn: Plotulopi by Istex in Light Ash Grey
🧶Baggy Hue www.ravelry.com/patterns/libr...
Designed: by Petite Knit
Yarn: La Bien Aimée Helix in Hella held double
🧶Sophie Scarf www.ravelry.com/patterns/libr...
Designed by: Petite Knit
Yarn: Lalland by Di Gilpin in Flame
Items Mentioned
Meaford Wool Socks by Soxophone Player meafordwool.com/
Loper & Haas Day Off Bag www.loperandhaas.com/
If you wish to further support me
🧶Favourite Fingerless Mittens
Designed by Pairs Well With Knitting
www.ravelry.com/patterns/libr...
Thank you very much for watching!
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Fantastic video! Thanks for sharing all the tips. Your sweaters are just gorgeous! Enjoy Norway.
You're too kind! Thank you very much. Sweaters are my favourite thing to knit and I wish I could knit them all.
I recently made my own lipbalm and it was honestly life-changing! It's equal parts coconut oil and beeswax (graded to add to cosmetics) then a little bit of vitamin e oil (available at any drugstore) and I added peppermint oil because I love a minty lipbalm. I put it in a little container similar to the glass ones you showed for cosmetics!!
That's too good! This is where my glass containers came from- my days of making lipbalm. I loved the feel of it and that it was natural. I haven't made it in a long time, but maybe it's time to go back!
We just returned from a two week trip to Oslo and Iceland, and wish I had packed more minimally. I loved the sauna boat. We did one right outside of Oslo in Lysaker and it was so nice. Weather was amazing and surprising, and the yarn shopping was fantastic! I can’t wait to hear what shops you visited!!
Wow! I love to hear that you were in Norway as well! It's such a beautiful country. And yes, there will be a couple of episodes coming up that feature my time there.
Previously as a flight attendant for a major airline carrier I've learned it's also important to carry a list of medications and their dosages (as a precaution). Also a travel-size scented candle is a lovely touch to where you will be staying. You may also wish to carry a small gift for any random acts of kindness - authentic Canadian maple syrup, maybe. Have a wonderful adventure!
What a lovely idea! A small gift is gorgeous. Thank you for sharing!
Hello dear, welcome to Norway! I travel regularly on domestic flights in Norway, and have never had any problem getting my knitting needles through security,. They have taken away some good scissors, so now I carry some small children’s scissors - which I always pull out and show the security staff. I have carried both metal and wooden needles, but never a complete set of interchangables. If you are travelling soon, make sure you pack some summer clothes as well as those woolen sweaters. We had 28 degrees Celsius (82, 4 F) in Oslo yesterday!
Thank you very much! What a beautiful country. Yes, we experienced sweaty hot temperatures in Oslo and now are dressed in our woollies in Bergen. I packed appropriately. Thank you for sharing about the scissors and needles. Happy knitting!
Hi Jennifer, this podcast was great. The Live of My Life and I travel the world and it is a highlight fir us 2 to 3 tines a year. I live in New Engkand and have made our way to all 50 States and visited 250 National Parks. Oor next big adventure is travel clear across Canada fir 7 weeks, beginning in Vancouver, taking The Mountaineer Train over Rickies and ibto 2 of your beautiful National Parks. We end in Calgary and have then put together our iwn itinerary making our way through Winnipeg, Toronto, Kingston, Ottawa, Quebec (which is where my family is from), PEI, Chetticamp (I am a rug hooker also), Lunenburg, Margarettsville and Halifax. We skipped Montreal, as we have been many times and is an easy trip for us.
Your packing suggestions are wonderful, so thoughtful and make great sense. It is very similiar to how I travel. I might make one suggestion is neck light (very inexpensive), but it helps to direct light onto my knitting on the plane and is very thoughtful for the persons beside you when they prefer to rest. Here is the link to mine
Glocusent Book Light, 3-Color & 6-Brightness Reading Light, Bendable Neck Light, Long Lasting Rechargeable Lamp, Perfect Book Light for Reading in Bed, Knitting, Camping, Repairing, Book Lovers Gifts a.co/d/05626GAz
Thank you for all the content you share, knitting and travel are a huge part of my life ❤❤
I love hearing about your travels! Thank you for sharing about the neck light. I have left mine at home because I feel I would have only used it on flights, which didn’t make the criteria for being brought with me on this specific I trip (many more hours of sunlight here than back home at the moment). Wishing you the best time on your upcoming travels though Canada!!!
I enjoyed all the shares of your travel tips oh so MUCH! ❤ and- I just ordered my First Loper& Haas🎉 bag! 🎉
Thank you! Ohhhh, I'm so excited for your bag to arrive. Did you go with the Day Off bag?
Your hard work and dedication to your channel shows. 👍
That is too kind. Thank you very much!
Looking forward to seeing your travels. We are hoping to visit Norway in August 😊
Yes!!! I highly encourage you to. What a beautiful country!
Well done! Happy travels!😎 I also carry a little promo item from a trade show….fabric handle on a small carabiner, I can loop it through my knitting bag and attach somewhere on the seat ahead of me. It keeps the yarn contained in the bag while I knit…don’t ask how I know this!😉
Oh, I love this idea! You know this because you knit everywhere. I get it! Thank you for sharing.
😂 feel like you just went through my bags! I just got back on Monday from 3 weeks in California and the only thing I did differently was this time I put my carryon in an empty large bag because lol well …. I knew I’d be bringing back huge amounts of yarn from every awesome shop I went to. Um and I did! Have a great trip.
Love this!!! Thank you for sharing about the extra bag for goodies bought whilst away. I hope you enjoyed your trip!
When I was going through security at Manchester UK, they found a lip balm that wasn’t in my bag of liquids ( like you, I have lip balm in every pocket!). Because of that I was pulled aside and everything had to be swabbed! Very stressful and almost missed my plane home. Who knew that a tube of solid lip balm is a liquid……since then I always put them in the liquids bag.😊. Have fun in 🇳🇴 Jennifer! look forward to your next video
I’m sorry to hear you had so much trouble from a lip balm. And a solid at that! I’m having a wonderful time and will consider placing my lip balm in my liquids. Even though they are all stick form.
Lip balms ….. Carmen and also O’Keeffe’s Lip Repair. I too use them everyday.
Ok! I’ll look into these options when I return. My search for the perfect lip balm continues….
I never take my chiaogoo interchangeables on the airplanes. I travel with cheap needles. They unexpectedly took my needles in Turkey. NBD but I had no knitting for the flight! Have a great trip
Thank you for sharing. I ended-up leaving my interchangeable set at home and brought only bare bones of needle options.
Did you comletely loose your Chiaogoo set in Mexico, did you have to buy a another set when you came home ??? I would havebeen devastated. Could you at least keep the cables ??? Which two knitting projects are you taking with you ? I usually take socks, but since you are not a sock knitter ...
I was very lucky and because only had carry-on bag, I placed my needle set in my small suitcase and checked it in. It was the first time I went through that. It wasn’t a big deal, but meant that I couldn’t knit on the flight.
@@pairswellwithknitting Oh! Not knitting must have been a bit difficult, but at least you didn't get your needles confiscated. 👍
I usually will put my interchangable in suitcase, and if knitting on plane..i put on wooden. The other two things i bring is a small..dollar store wipe packets that are small and bug spray..which is in my suitcase, especially if you have sensitive skin.
Great ideas! I have heard of knitters travelling with wooden needles only. Thank you for sharing.
Have a good time in Norway; it’s so beautiful ! Question: I love your knitting notebook (the grey with orange “sides”). What’s the brand ?
Thank you very much! My knitting journal is a Leuchtturm 1917 notebook with a grid ruling. I love!
@@pairswellwithknitting thanks 🙏
Jennifer, love the new leather bag.. can you share the name of the independent leather company? Thank u!
Loper & Haas. Link is in the show notes.
Hey try the clear wax earplugs you can get them at rite aid
Thank you for this option. I’m always on the lookout for noise reducing earplugs that fit my small ear canal.
Could you link the blouse you have on? It’s great!
You're kind! It is from a Toronto designer, Vivian Shyu, but was purchased a number of years ago. vivianshyu.com/
Thank you so much! Traveling to Europe next year and this was very helpful. How do you all those sweaters in your suitcase?
My pleasure! I ended-up bringing only 2 sweater and swapped out one for a shrug. I wore my heavier sweater around my shoulders on the plane and packed the lighter sweater and shrug in my carry-on suitcase. They are puffy, but squish down.
Very comprehensive! but do tell (as I am planning on Norway next year)…what is your plan to get the yarn home??? I was thinking of putting my small suitcase inside of a larger one and then checking on the way home. I don’t know but I know when I go there will be yarn coming home.
This makes sense. I continue my travels and have been considering how I’m going to tote my yarn back home. I have my plan A, which is to wear more clothes and my boots onboard my return flight, freeing up space in my bags or plan B, which is shop a package home. I’m crossing my fingers for plan A.
I really enjoyed that but would love to know what shoes you take apart from running shoes (if any). My shoes seem to take up a lot of room…
Shoes are always the largest item to pack. I am quite conservative with shoes during my travels, however this time I also carried a pair of Blundstones for the rainy parts of my travels. First time travelling with such ridiculously large footwear. They have been used a lot already and were totally worth bringing! So in total- Blundstones, running shoes and a pair of leather sandals that go with everything. I will wear the Boots on my return flight.
Have you ever tried LeSportsac bags? Featherweight.
I have not, but great idea!!!
OMG, we need to ask the Knitty Stew how many stitch markers get found on flights! 😂 Some of mine are out in the wild…
And the laundry bag! I need to start using that for blocking to avoid parts stretching. Brilliant!
This is hilarious! Indeed! She may have quite the collection!