December 01, 2003
The Sun'll Come Out Tomorrow...
Hello again, Dear Readers! Such wonderful comments were left while I was gone, most from readers chiming in in defense of dpns and one, the Always-Needed Voice of Reason, saying "to each his own." And then there's Barb's lovely comment about how blogs are one of the things she was grateful for this Thanksgiving... Very sweet, Barb; thank you!
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For my first post-Thanksgiving entry, the story of "Frankie and the Attack of the Chunky Yarn."
First, some background: The World's Largest Sweater is an attempt to reuse the vast amounts of Wool Ease Thick & Quick that I purchased to make this now-discontinued pattern. After chugging along on the sweater for a while, I realized that the double-stranding and size 20 (yes, size 20) needles the pattern called for was resulting in an overly dense yet overly holey, ultra-saggy, lifeless sack, rather than the tailored, cozy and fetching pullover I had envisioned. I finally gave up when I discovered the pattern had errors in it. Yep—just the kind of experience a beginning knitter longs for...
Fast forward two years. Enter The World's Largest Sweater. Step One: Frogging the Overly Dense Yet Overly Holey, Ultra-Saggy, Lifeless Sack. Step Two: Untangling Miss Frankie from this mess, the result of her lying too close to me while I was madly flinging long strands of yarn.
Step Three: Make "Still Life with Yarn and Dog." If Little Orphan Annie and her dog Sandy had children, this would be the result , I think:
Step Four: Realize dog is thoroughly bored with this whole thing.
Lest you think I spent all of Thanksgiving just frogging old projects and abusing the dog, here is the almostalmostalmost finished back of The World's Largest Sweater:
Also, a special thank you and a cheek-pinch goes out to K for helping me wind the double-stranded yarn back into separate balls.
Dye Garden Dyegest
I'm starting to think about next year's dye garden and am mulling over how best to get my hands on some indigo seeds and whether or not to order the hideously expensive (thanks to shipping) Hopi Black Dye Sunflower seeds. In the meantime, to fill our heads with dreams of warm summer days, a picture of a beautiful coral and yellow dahlia from my yard:
