Knot Right!

I know that sometimes knots show up in ball of yarn.  It is just a thing, but damn it pisses me off, especially in a ball of yarn that is 55 yards long.  Seriously, it is annoying.  I knitted myself a towel with these 2 balls of bulky cotton yarn and midway through the towel smack in the middle of a row I had a knot.  I should have tinked out the row, but knew I would need the yarn at the end.  Now I wish I had just tinked the row.  The towel is just for me so the messy middle will only bother me, but bother me it will.  Damn knots.

What's Your Point Scarf

I have been knitting, but with moving & some larger works in progress I have not finished much lately.  However, awhile back I did finish a scarf which will not find its way around my neck until this fall.  In the meantime it languishes away with my other fabulous knitted scarves.  The pattern for the scarf is called "What's Your Point Scarf?" Available at the following website:  (http://www.skacelknitting.com/s.nl/sc.2/category.46871/.f ). 

The scarf was an easy knit, but it is the yarn I used which I love.  One of the Sunday knitters showed up with this Schachenmayr Regia Fluormania line of sock yarn and I knew I had to have some.  I found a vivid purple, pink, green colorway to call my own. 

I was worried that this pattern was going to just roll up once knitted.  My knitter think tank assured me blocking would take care of the rolling edge problem.  Aggressive blocking paid off and the scarf is flat as a pancake (which if you think about it a pancake is actually a little puffy on top).  Can't wait for nippy weather to show off this pointedly vibrant scarf.

Yarn Stash

I admit I have a yarn stash problem.  Admitting it is the first step, right?  I will not divulge the size of my stash, but let's just say it is embarrassing in proportion.  Anyway, recently I found a pattern which has helped me eat up some of my single skein stash issues.  I like that in a pattern.

However, the oddest thing happens when I have a new pattern I want to try, I never have the right yarn and have to buy more.  I am not really complaining, I like buying yarn. But how is it with such an impressive yarn stash I am always one skein short of a sweater?

Tempest Tease

I am superficial enough to be exceptional flattered by my good friend at Dyaebolical Yarn (http://www.dyeabolicalyarns.com/) for naming a yarn colorway after me.  And of course I am vain enough that I had to buy some of this limited edition yarn for myself.  The yarn is a lovely shade of green, which falls in the pantheon of greens I adore.  So thank you Dyeabolical for giving my already healthy ego a boost.  Love the yarn too.

The Pie Safe or How My Stash Found A Home

(Too Much Clutter.)
First and foremost I like having lots of stuff. I can't help it I got the habit from my mom. She is the queen of clutter, which makes me the princess of junk. I have collections of stuff from books to coffins. Knitting has not changed my collecting fever it has just focused it down to a specific area: FIBER. So my stash was beginning to take over in a series of containers, small green bowl, big green bowl, green cloth basket, open green box, green box, and let us not forget the green bin with all the knitting supplies in it. If this sounds confusing to you, can you imagine how I feel.

Much joy and consternation resulted from said accumulated stash of yarn. My mom offered me a great solution, did I want her pie safe? Now my mother does not bake pies, hell the woman rarely cooks at all, but she has a pie safe. When I was a kid she brought it home in pieces and it sat for months in the garage collecting spiders. Eventually, she sent it to a refinisher and it came home all shiny and like new. The refinisher called it a carpenters end piece and told her there were 5 different types of wood in the cabinet. The cabinet has a special place in my heart and my childhood. With some of the things going on in my parents life she is down-sizing a little and henceforth the pie safe is mine.

At first I was excited and knew immediately that my yarn had found a home, but how to make everything else fit I asked myself. I thought about configuration for a week. I measured everything for a week. I spent a week digging out the wall to put the pie safe against, photograph of empty wall below. I spent another week afraid it wasn't going to fit in the station wagon it was coming home in (it didn't, but my dad and some bungees made it work). And then after lugging it in with Natalie's help, it was in position for yarn. (Put Pie Safe Here.)
I am so happy with the beautiful pie safe and with my beautiful yarn in it. I can sit on my futon and watch my stash grow. Ahhhh, cooling pies would not have looked so grand.
(Put Stash in Pie Safe)

Greener

If you know me, you know I love the color green. I don't know what it is about green, but when I see something in that color I like it a little more than if it was say, blue. I feel like I might be on to something because think of the things that are green, money, grass, limes, asparagus, good arts and crafts pottery.

Also with my auburn hair I look good in green. Even my mother agrees the hue suits me. I am so ga-ga for green I want everyone to wear green to my funereal (talk about being self-absorbed).

Anyway, I am trying to inventory my yarn on my ravelry account. I am doing it a little at a time, but I have notice there is a significant amount of green yarn. Yarn of all kinds of fiber, weight, and amounts. I could truly have a dedicated green yarn stash bin.

I admit I have a problem. If there was a twelve step program for people obsessed with green I think my friend would do an intervention, but I know it wouldn't stick. But on the other hand no one is ever in doubt as to what color to get me of anything. I still dream about someone giving me a bottle green prius, but it has yet to show up in my driveway.

Happily I just received a new skein 0f sock yarn, because well I just don't have enough green sock yarn. It came from a yarn shop in Alexandria called, Knit Happens. The lovely yarn is pictured above. I had kind of icky week, so the green yarn made my week less icky. Of course this means I will have to knit more socks.