April 1, 2006 China post # 1: The Great Wall

Just back from a 10 day trip to Beijing and Shanghai, and am going to try and catch up on my blogging. I actually have a few posts to write about things in China. I wanted to blog while I was there but we were busy doing things practically every moment- from 7:30 AM until late in the evening- there was so much to see and do. This first post is about a quick little stocking cap I made on the way over to Tokyo on the plane. Based on a headhuggers pattern, I whipped up this black cabled number to wear during the windy days in China. As you can see it came in handy while traipsing along the Great Wall! China is an incredibly service oriented culture- a testament to this is that I lost this hat for 2 days and it had been turned into the lobby desk at my hotel. They brought it to me carefully wrapped, like a special little present. I did bring hubby's sweater along on the plane, and did get some work done on it, although that hat definitely distracted from that. Not as much knitting time as I would have thought. Go figure, when I was on the bus or train, I wanted to be looking out at the sights constantly.