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18/7/2012

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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.  

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!
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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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Wool Diaries link
17/7/2012 08:11:33 pm

I absolutely hate it when my yarn barfs. It's so unpleasant and why does it always tangle???

I love the way the plain green goes with the varigated.

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Lisa link
17/7/2012 09:48:16 pm

Ugh I hate when yarn balls do that. You think you have them caked up nicely and then BAM! Massive mess. I hope you get up the motivation to work on them again soon. Good luck on your shawl, it sounds lovely.

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Sue link
17/7/2012 11:14:44 pm

I usually chuck the whole mess at my husband and say sort it, which he patiently does. Still a great colour though

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Paula Purls link
17/7/2012 11:39:44 pm

I know very well what you mean - I get all bouncy and hyperactive after one can of Coke!

These colours really do work together well and the darker green shade is a nice contrast :-)

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Stitched Together link
18/7/2012 12:18:56 am

I love that orange yarn. I have a skein of sock yarn in a similar shade. I can't wait to find the perfect project to cast on so that I can play with it!

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Regula Bartholdi link
18/7/2012 12:20:24 am

Entanglements all over. I'm talking about it on my today's post. So we are united in the misery.

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Beth link
18/7/2012 01:25:40 am

Orange has always been my least favorite color, but that orange yarn you posted (even if it barfed) is chaning my mind.

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Stephanie link
18/7/2012 03:37:02 am

Orange has always been way down at the bottom of my list, too, but I suddenly found myself liking it this year. I've made a deep orange shawl and some bright orange socks. I even caught myself looking at an orange purse!

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Minding My Own Stitches link
18/7/2012 02:42:24 am

I'm one of the lucky ones - caffeine doesn't particularly affect me, and absolutely nothing disrupts my eight hours of sleep :)

Sorry about the yarn barf. I'd be frustrated and more than a little cranky!

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Pumpkin link
18/7/2012 03:27:19 am

I seriously want all of the yarn shown in these photos, especially the green in the second photo (look at that texture!). I'm interested to see how your shawl revamp goes!

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Stephanie link
18/7/2012 03:34:50 am

OH! So that's what you were talking about! Huh, I had no idea. I've been remiss in keeping up with the blogs I follow since Bloglovin keeps deleting my lists.

I wish caffeine affected me the same was as you. I need two cups of coffee in the morning and some form of caffeine (usually a no sugar, no carbs energy drink) in the afternoon. I even have a caffeinated mouth spray/breath freshener. Three spritzes has almost the same amount of caffeine as a cup of coffee! I can drink a Coke and go straight to bed, too.

Oh, yarn barfs. :( I had a mishap several weeks ago wherein my ball winder broke as I was winding up a skein of String Theory Colorworks yarn. It took HOURS to fix. I worked on it for nearly two hours straight, then my husband took pity and helped out. For whatever reason, I can never pull yarn from the center of the ball. I always tug a few times and then pull a huge knot out.

All this to say, thank you very much, and you have my sympathies.

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Alicia link
18/7/2012 08:38:22 am

I ADORE that color combo for your shawl! Good call on the contrast color. I look forward to seeing more of it.

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