My Knitting ADD is at it again....

Yes, I have unfinished projects with a timeline, but.......

I've had the worst sinus headaches of my life the last few days and have been doing my best to treat them sans antibiotics (because I'm not interested in seeing a doctor, honestly), so I've been doing the ol' snort-the-salt-water-up-the-nose treatment that my mom highly recommends. Yes, it's been helping, but not really enough. So, I've also been putting heat packs on my face. Mmmmm... lovely heat making my headache feel better.

So, while under the darkness of the lovely heat pack, I was thinking... I bet I could *make* a lovely felted heat pack. So, that's the plan. I'll post the pattern when I'm done.

A Necessary Evil

Yes, that's right... rolling the tangled yarn into a ball.

Why yarn isn't sold in balls, I'll never understand. By the end of the skein I'm almost always rolling it up into a ball to save my sanity. This is by no means my favorite activity, as you may have guessed. In case you've never had the pleasure, it goes like this

Step 1... notice that the yarn keeps tangling up making you stop your knitting/crocheting/whatever you're doing every few stitches in order to loosen up enough yarn for you to make a few more stitches

Step 2... you decide (after much frustration) that you must put down what you are doing and take on the task of rolling the yarn into a ball so that you may continue in peace and sanity

Step 3... Put down your fun project, and pick up giant knot of yarn. It's important to understand, that by giant knot I don't mean one huge knot but a multitude of knots forming a large conglomeration and that it's sneering at you, taunting you to untie it.

Step 4... start dutifully pulling at the end and wrapping the yarn around your fingers, stopping after practically every wrap to wrestle with said multitude of knots.

Step 5... get frustrated and throw the giant knot across the room screaming profanities at said knot.

Step 6... dig out hard liquor from wherever you're storing it and take a swig.

Step 7... kick giant knot hoping you can badger it into submission

Step 8... take another swig of liquor and turn back to carefully wrapping your yarn into a ball

Step 9... throw yarn across the room and encourage your toddler (or cat) to wander off with it, never to be seen again.

Step 10... sober up and drive to the yarn store for a new yarn that it still beautifully organized into a skein.



Ok, so maybe that's not really how it went, but that's about how it feels like it COULD go......

Obsessive Thoughts

So, I've been hearing a lot about recycling yarn by finding old (or new?) cheap sweaters and taking them apart to use the yarn. And being the obsessive person that I am, I can't stop THINKING about all the beautiful yarn just waiting for me to come along and rescue it from horrid sweaters. I've been checking out the sale racks at Old Navy, looking for ginormous sweaters (as big as I can find) that I can then dismantle and transform into beautiful yarn for my own use. MUAHAHAHAHAHA *evil grin*

I've even been reading about people taking the sweaters apart and then twisting that yarn together with other yarn to make thicker weight yarn, and also dying the yarn to make gorgeous new iterations of the lovely fibers. AND I saw someone (who know's how many are out there!) selling recycled yarn to which they have done just that! *drool*

So, now, being an avid knitter and yarn junkie, I am stuck obsessing over doing this to unsuspecting knitwear. You may be interested to know that I even have been eying my sweaters that have been sitting around for .... well, clearly for too long... and even ones that I wear frequently, to use for this luxurious yarn-finding/making expedition. Stay tuned, I will prevail!

Responsibilities...

Tonight my dad and step-mom are coming for the weekend. I should be cleaning... but I WANT to knit!! Here's what I'm working on now...





It's the Matinee Coat from Debbie Bliss's "simply baby" That picture is from a while ago, I've finished the other front and am part way up one sleeve.