Yarn! January 29, 2007
It was a very yarn-y weekend. It started off with my Rowanspun DK making it here from the U.K. in record time—a mere three days to get from the U.K., across the pond, across the U.S. to me here in California. Wow! And it’s perfect, just exactly what I wanted. It’s so much more… me than the petunia Cotton Glace was. In the close-up you can see the tiny flecks of color that make it a tweed. The yarn’s actually darker than that. It’s amazingly difficult to take pictures of navy blue that show the color correctly. For me, anyway. Hrmph. Oh well. The important thing is that I love this yarn. I’ve begun the search for the perfect pattern. Haven’t found it yet. It’s only a matter of time.
  
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Next up: I finished the scarf for my uncle! 
Yes. The end of my holiday knitting. It’s done. It’s blocking. See? 
Here’s a close-up of the stitch pattern. Looks much better now that it’s flat. I’ll take some better pictures of it once it’s dry. It seems to be drying fairly quickly, so hopefully I’ll have those for you tomorrow. 
Oh, and these little bits of yarn? They’re all that was left of the two seventy-gram balls I wound to knit the scarf with. I was knitting quickly at the end, hoping I’d fake the yarn out and have enough to finish with. I don’t know why I do that… It’s not like the amount of yarn in the balls will change if I knit slowly, but I always speed up when I think I may not make it.
Now that the scarf is done, it’s time to start that afghan for mom, the one she bought the yarn for in December. Most of 
the yarn came in hanks, so yesterday evening I spent some time winding them all into balls. Well, almost all of them. There are two colorways of this tape yarn. The first one I got to, with lots of lovely golds in it, wouldn’t wind properly. It ended up in a tangled mess. Took forever to get it untangled and wound into a neat ball. Towards the end of this lamentable task I got a little help from Ricki. After I finally finished up with that yarn mess, I wasn’t up to tackling the other colorway, so saved that joy for this morning. Luckily, the second one behaved itself, and wound properly in only a few minutes.
  
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In spite of the argument I had with the yarn, I was able to cast on last night, and knit the first three rounds of this afghan. The first yarn is even fuzzier to knit with than it looks in the ball, and it’s oh-so soft. Yum. The pattern tells me exactly how many rows I’ll be doing, so I’ve put a progress bar for this one in my sidebar. 
Knitting wasn’t the only thing I did all weekend—bummer. While I was out front dealing with more plants that are finally home after having lived under the neighbor’s driveway since early November when our house was tented (don’t ask), Coco was inside playing pool.
She cleared the table.
Claire January 29
The yarns you’ve selected for your mom’s afghan look gorgeous! I can’t wait to see pictures of your work in progress.
~Kristie January 29
Your tweedy yarn looks fondle-icious! I know it’s not a word, but in knitting words are made up all the time, so I’m jumping on that bandwagon.
I LOVE how your uncle’s scarf turned out. That is a beautiful cable stitch and even with it being such a dark color, the photographs turned out great!
Do I spy a glass of wine next to your “tangled mess” photo? Hmmm… exactly what I would’ve done!
Jenna February 1
That WAS record time. Wow! They must have known how much you wanted to be able to work with it.
The navy scarf for your uncle is beautiful, just as I knew that it would be, even if it wasn’t a fun stitch. Sorry to hear about the yarn snarl. That has to be annoying, but you got through it. Glad the second skein didn’t do the same thing!
BTW, is that a Laura original sweater that you are wearing in the photo?