a late night picture of the aftermath of yarn barf
I'm up late because I wasn't paying attention and drank caffeinated soda way too late in the day-- as in, after about seven at night. Devin thinks it's cute how much I'm affected by caffeine; I drink a cup of black tea in the morning, and if I'm really lagging, I'll have two and then I'll be bouncy until about noon. Literally, bouncy. I don't drink soda often-- maybe once a month-- and 8 ounces of caffeinated soda will also make me bouncy. I don't much care for coffee (when I drink it I doctor it to taste like melted coffee ice cream), and a small cup-- a real small, not a medium-that's-now-considered-a-small cup-- will keep me going for about half a day. So tonight, as I was wandering around the apartment on the phone with various people, watering the snakes and chasing the cat away from the spinach we're growing on our balcony (he really likes to chow down on it), and drinking about a third of a 2-liter bottle of Coke Zero, I basically guaranteed myself a sleepless night.
I'd love to say I would spend the night working on my orange socks, but I'm a little mad at them. Again. Actually this time it's the yarn more than the sock. I had a yarn- barf incident, to borrow a term from Miso Crafty. Normally I pull from the outside of yarn cakes, but since this was supposed to be a traveling project I pulled from the middle, and at the heel of the second sock, I pulled and got a hot mess out of the middle of my cake. I didn't take a picture of the tangle (I was really cranky), but I did take a picture of the many little yarn balls I have left, as well as my newly re-wound cake, from which I will not be pulling from the center.
I'd love to say I would spend the night working on my orange socks, but I'm a little mad at them. Again. Actually this time it's the yarn more than the sock. I had a yarn- barf incident, to borrow a term from Miso Crafty. Normally I pull from the outside of yarn cakes, but since this was supposed to be a traveling project I pulled from the middle, and at the heel of the second sock, I pulled and got a hot mess out of the middle of my cake. I didn't take a picture of the tangle (I was really cranky), but I did take a picture of the many little yarn balls I have left, as well as my newly re-wound cake, from which I will not be pulling from the center.
On another (related) note, thank you Pumpkin and Stephanie for commenting last week; I haven't forgotten about you! I asked Devin "Even or odd?" and she said odd (and then asked me what I was talking about. She doesn't read this blog-- but she does sometimes look at the pictures), which means that Stephanie, as the first commenter (one is an odd number) will be receiving something from me, as soon as I stalk her a bit and go stash diving. Thanks for playing you two!
green yarn: Plymouth Royal Llama Linen; silk is Araucania Chaiten
What I did work on this week (well, today-- meaning yesterday, I guess. Tuesday.) is the project I planned for the Ravelry not-Olympics. Last summer I knit a shawl out of 100% raw silk my mum had given me, left over from a hat she'd made for a friend. I knit all the way through the shawl, and as I was contemplating learning how to crochet to make its border, I realized it was seriously ugly. Not ugly-charming, which is what I was kind of hoping for, it was just plain old ugly. So, it went to live in the bottom of the knitting basket. In March I happened upon the perfect contrast yarn for it, and sent those to the bottom of the knitting basket, and then today (yesterday) I wound the three skeins of the contrast yarn and started knitting a striped garter stitch scarf. I'm planning on frogging the original shawl as soon as I've knit through the half skein I have left over. This time around the colors look more like summer carrots and squash than the linoleum in my childhood kitchen, and the plain contrast color seems to be breaking up the variegation enough to achieve a quirky (and therefore wearable) kind of ugly.
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