Yesterday, I thought up at least five good topics to write about. Unfortunately, they all came to me while I was in front of the copier, and I didn’t write any of them down. So now I can’t remember.
Which means, of course, that I’m going to tell a story that maybe no one will find interesting.
This weekend, I got a new bed. Not really new, but new for me. My uncle’s father died last month, and he had two guest rooms, both with twin beds. When the house sold, I was given the “good” one, which was the newer of the two.
Yes, I realize a twin bed isn’t really moving up in the bed world. But, considering the bed I was sleeping on before was a day bed, I’ll take what I can get.
So, I set up the new bed, which involved taking apart the daybed and moving it into our new guest bedroom before I moved back in, the room I’m in now was the guest bedroom. After putting the daybed back together in the new guest room, I moved the twin bed in, and for the first time since I moved back in, I have enough room in my room for all of my furniture. Since I can have the bed jutting out into the room, I have more wall space, and finally feel that when I go to bed, my bed isn’t going to fall apart
on me.
One of the side benefits of this room-reorganization is that I moved my yarn catch-all to the other side of the room. This necessitated my removing all of my yarn from the shelves and dumping it on the bed while I moved it to where I wanted it.
Jesus, I forgot I had so much yarn. Seriously, I have enough yarn for five full-sized projects, never mind the mass of lace-weight I have no plans for but have been secretly collection. Yarn enough for seven more pairs of socks. Good thing I like knitting socks.
I don’t think I’ll be buying any more yarn this year at all. Instead, I’m going to try to finish off all the projects I have on the needles now (expect to see that in a post near you soon), and then work on the projects I’ve had planned but haven’t started on.
Of course, this all depends on me not getting distracted by something, like the fall semester of school.
One of these days, I’m going to have to figure out how to read and knit complicated things at the same time.
—”Crooked Teeth,” Plans: Death Cab for Cutie
Sock Yarn: Trekking, Lorna's Laces, Koigui PPM
I’m sure it’s an ominous start to the photos that the very first one happens to be sock yarn.
But, I love yarn. I love socks. And I love sock yarn doubly so. And, I really just wanted to share my yarn.
I had been saving gift certificates to the yarn store since Christmas, so when I got an email telling me that they were having a sale, I practically begged [redacted] to take me out there. I was so excited; I thought that maybe the Cascade 220 would be on sale. Or maybe the Rowan yarn. Alas, no, I wasn’t that lucky. And since I didn’t have any extra money to spend, I decided on sock yarn because I am more likely to finish a pair of socks than any kind of larger item.
I decided on the blue-ish Trekking XXL because I had never tried it, and because I really liked the colors. It was the only XXL color I liked, really. The others looked to be the fake-fair isle, and I don’t really go in for that. Also, I am thrilled that one ball will make an entire pair of socks, and am so glad that it is superwash. I dislike having to remember what socks can and can’t be machine washed.
In the middle is Lorna’s Laces Shepherd Sock, which I have wanted to try forever. It is also superwash (genius!), and I had to dig around to find two of the color I wanted—Mixed Berries. I am so in love with this yarn that it is still sitting on my desk, waiting to be made into socks. I am looking for a good pattern, but I’m not sure what that will be.
The brown skein all alone is Koigu to finish the socks I started last year but had to abandon when I ran out of yarn an inch before the toe shaping. The brown goes really well, and I ripped back what I had to to heal, so that the heal and the toe would be the same color. I should be finished with the sock by the end of the week, and if I remember, I might post a photo. I really love the way the sock has turned out.
In all I spent just over $50 at Filati, only getting these four skeins. And that’s why I don’t get to buy yarn all that often.
So, there you have it. My first knitting content in over a month… It isn’t that I haven’t been knitting. It’s that the lack of a camera makes it hard to write about knitting. And besides, I’ve had some other things to talk about.
—”7 Miniutes in Heven (Atavan Halen)” From Under the Cork Tree: Fall Out Boy
