I love fuzzy yarn. There’s something, I dunno, comforting about it. No, it’s more than that. It’s not just comforting. I want to curl up with it, hold it, cuddle it, wrap myself in it. Be wrapped in its comforting folds. It goes deeper than that. Primal. Basic. Beyond yarn. Beyond warmth. Especially when it’s hand made. Love gets in there, too. All the good aspects of love. At the same time, it has some of the sticky bits of love, like when the furry bits somehow cling to nose or eyelashes.

Before taking pictures of the new little scarf this morning, I pinned it out so the stitches would show better, so you could see the pretty scalloped edges. Yesterday’s pictures seemed a little blurry to me. It’s not because they were out of focus, because they weren’t. Rather, it was because of the fuzziness of this lovely yarn. It’s one of the bad things about fuzzy yarn that I’ll happily deal with: it’s difficult to get good, clear shots, as the yarn tends to blur by nature.

So there you go. You can see the curves (points because of the pins) at all edges except where the knitting needle is. You can see the stitches better. The fuzziness. The lace.

I’ve been talking with Jen at Woolgirl off and on since autumn about doing a pattern for this year’s sock club. I can’t show you the yarn that arrived yesterday for me to design with, but I can tell you that it’s divine, it’s a yarn I haven’t knit with before—not that that narrows it down one bit—and has a good reputation out there, and that the dye job is fabulous. Since the yarn arrived yesterday I’ve been carrying it around from room to room with me, picking it up at odd moments, feeling it, examining the colors. Dave thinks I’ve lost it. Not being a yarn person, he just doesn’t understand. I’m excited to be designing for Jen’s sock club. Should be fun.

I actually got to listen to some back episodes of one of my favorite podcasts yesterday, Cast On. I was standing in my office cleaning wires for blocking wire sets—I’m not quite done—and needed something to listen to. One of the things that Brenda talked about was The Tree Project sponsored by the International Fiber Collective. They’re asking people to make five-by-seven inch leaves for their tree. Applications are to be submitted by March 15. There are photos of the leaves already submitted, as well as some of tree assembly. I don’t know that I’ll participate, but I’ll keep an eye on it.