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September 12, 2003
Life is too short.
To work with crappy yarn that is. I have decided to cull my stash and get rid of all of the yarn that I don't like. Really. I have an antique sideboy in my dining room that is stuffed with knitting supplies. One entire side of it is floor to ceiling yarn. Some of it has been in my possession for nearly twenty years. In my former life I was a psychiatric technician for the Navy and used to work seven days in a row of nights. My job was to watch the patients sleep and try not to sleep myself. So, to help with the tedium, I used to take afghan requests from the guys who lived in the barracks. They were responsible for going to the store and buying the yarn they wanted (PRICE CHECK ON THE TAMPONS IN AISLE FIVE PLEASE). So, I now have lots of funky odd skeins in colors I would never ever choose and for some bizarre reason, most of it is Red Heart.
Last weekend, I put the finishing touches on two sweaters. One is a beautiful baby sweater for a coworker. I used Sirdar Silky Look, which is an absolute dream to work with. I had used it to make the same sweater (different stitch though) for Seth when he was born.
The other sweater is for a little girl that was born prematurely this summer. I adjusted the pattern to make the newborn sweater bigger and accidently made it about 12 months size. Hopefully she will double in size by November hahahahaha. I rummaged in my immense stash of yarn and found this awful multicolored baby yarn. It just felt bad on the needles, wouldn't slide easily, split, made this horrible *ritting* sound. Agh. As pleasureable as the Sirdar yarn was to work with, this yarn was a punishment. The sad thing is that I have about a dozen or so skeins of different colored/weight cheap yarn in my stockpile. The sweater actually turned out cute, with the sweetest little pink heart buttons. I decided after this project though, not to foist the yarn onto anyone else. I am thinking I will give it to the thrift store, I am sure someone would appreciate it.
Posted by DebC at September 12, 2003 06:26 AM