Mary Murphy the Great (not her real name) accidentally forgot to include my 15% sale discount. She retallied my total and gave me $6.66 in change. Stephanie (who has been right about everything she's ever suggested and is knitting with Kauni) was a little freaked out by my total and strongly urged me to buy something else to offset any demonic dangers. I bought a little bottle of Eucalan no-rinse wool wash.
Stephanie was completely right about shaking the demon powers. When I went to pick up GHB from the casino, playing my usual small amount just to keep him happy, I hit a biggun' and will be sitting pretty in stash for some months.
What the picture above doesn't show is that the CPH on the needles is in Avacodo Tweed and the yarn I picked up was Northern Landscape. Must I learn EVERY DAMN LESSON the hard way? Guess I'll just have to visit again on Saturday.
As for the books, who can pass up a title that has Knitting and Anarchist in it? There's not really anything new in it but it's relative lack of patterns and a solid explanation of why knitters do what they do makes one think about knitting free of the constrictions of someone else's pattern. I'm going to dig into the Hip to Knit book this evening. It's got some "basic" patterns (socks, mittens, hats) in it that makes it seem like a good resource.
Thanks to everyone who's playing Contest! Contest! with me. There have been most excellent ideas that I wouldn't have thought of. The Cool Blue September Sky Lace on Knitty's site might be calling my name. If I were on Ravelry (6213 people are ahead of you in line) it would be on my list of things to do. In the very least, the number of entries makes me feel not so stupid for buying yarn on-line that I didn't have a clue about. After all, somebody wants it.
Three days until the drawing. 5 days until Knit Knite. And as I type WVU vs. MARYLAND... Let's GOOOOOO Mountaineers!
7 comments:
Exactly how much stash money are we talking about here? I don't gamble, because it's boring and I'd rather spend my money on something I can take home, like yarn. But I'm always open to potential new sources of yarn money.
Mr. DoThis&DoThat doesn't wash his clothes? EWE!
Ok, has he never heard of soaking before blocking? Sheeeesh!!!
Maybe he was truly clueless (like me and some other self-taught knitters who shop for yarn at craft stores and thus get no great LYS advice)--just giving him (and myself) the benefit of the doubt. Sophanne--thank you for all your fun comments on my blog. They always make me smile. By the way, loved your mummy idea for Little Man. That might be fun to knit. Maybe next year.
Hey! Now you can be the know-it-all to mr.mensa, enlighten him to the way we 'knitters' cleanse our yarn!!
Excellent- a little luck at the casino is a very good thing.
What do anarchists knit?
I would have given the DT the benefit of the doubt if he had not already proclaimed such vast knowledge on every other aspect of knitting.
I'm thinking maybe you don't have to wash novelty yarn.
As to what anarchists knit- there's a pattern for a patchwork sort of sweater but I think maybe they mostly knit whatever they want or maybe whatever anyone else isn't knitting. If that's the case- I'm right on track- I stick with Jen's mantra "I knit what I want." and it clearly never turns out like anyone else's!
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