Yarn-Related Miscellany

Right. Time to make good on a few of the posts I've been promising. It's difficult, you see. First I have to steal Matt's camera, then I take photos until one of them comes up looking like it should, then I spend twenty minutes trying to figure out how to delete the rest, until I finally give up and figure Matt will deal with it. At some point, Matt pulls the photos off the camera onto his computer, and he saves mine off onto a flash drive. At this point, of course, I've forgotten all about the photos I don't want, so I get the whole lot of them to pull down onto my computer and sort through. Delete, delete, delete. Eventually I get them all sorted and renamed, and then I have to write up a post to house them, and --

You see what I do for you people? Who loves ya, baby?

So, then. Posty goodness:

Thing 1: The Birthday Gnomes
Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Spend Lots of Money

I'd been thinking that I ought to buy myself something expensive and frivilous for my birthday. I had pretty much decided on a digital camera, but the researching and deciding phase seemed daunting, and I never did quite get around to it. (You might have actually guessed that, based on my photo woes.)

As fate would have it, however, something even better came my way. Fate's insrument? Craig's List.

Not only is it a place to find lousy roommates and dodgy job postings, people sell things on Craig's list! Wonderful things. Things like this:


Yup, it's a spinning wheel. More importantly, it's my spinning wheel. Do I know how to use it? Not a clue. That's not the important thing. The important thing is that Sleeping Beauty? Complete moron. There's nothing sharp anywhere on this thing. How she could possibly manage to prick her finger, I have no idea. Clearly, she was not the brightest. Although, given that her father's solution to evil curses was to deprive the country's old women of their livelihood, I suppose she didn't have a lot to work with, genetically speaking.


The wheel came with lots of wool roving, too. There are five more bags of the brown color, so I suppose once I figure out how this whole thing works, I'll have entertainment for a very long time.


I immediately ran out an bought this. I don't even really like sparkly yarns, but I fell in love. Not my fault: yarn store amnesia.


Thing 2: Yarn Stash
Being a Cautionary Tale Regarding the Dangers of Making Plans But Having No Time to Implement Them
I've moved my yarn stash to new housing, but it's threatening to break free again. I suppose I really should invest in some sort of moth repellant - it's pretty much an all-you-can-eat buffet right now. Photos soon, I promise. Some of this yarn actually even has a purpose, really!

Thing 3: Finished, Mostly Finished, and Totally Unfinished Objects
The blue scarf that haunts my days and fills my dreaming nights. It's done in seed stitch with a nice variegated blue/white/grey wool and fun fur. No, I have no idea what posessed me. I can only offer as an excuse that I was a very inexperienced knitter when I started it. It's too wide and too short; I think I'll have to seam it up into a tube. It needs the ends woven in, but between the fun fur and the seed stich, I can't even find where they ought to go. I hate it. Hate, hate, hate. If you know, or are, a twelve-year-old girl, please contact me, I have a gift for you.

Baby hats. Always good to have around, just in case Adam starts wearing hats and simultaneously shrinks, like in Alice in Wonderland or something. This was my mindless pattern for a while; very good for meetings. It's adapted from the Umbilical Cord Hat from Stich and Bitch.


My first dishcloth for the monthly KAL.


Finally! The Kureyon Cozy from Knitty. I've only been working on this thing since I was put on bedrest - what, 13 months? Thank G-d I didn't go for the large version. Of course, after I took this photo, I realized I had gotten a little too excited about actually finishing this thing, and bound off the I-cords without making the bobble and loop to secure them.I'll test the length - if they're too short to tie together, I can improvise with a needle and thread. I need to figure out something to block this on.

Umm... anybody have a teapot?