Insubordiknit

A mish, a mash, coiled yarn and a flash

It went well, my experimentation veering off the even steven spinning highway. Not great, and I have complaints (when don’t I, right? Especially when it concerns M to the E). Altogether though, I’m happy and well on the way to atomic wonderland -- thanks to the help of Hello Yarn, who's on vacation and won't be able to heap on me the praise and advice I so need.

I didn’t want to use my handpainted rovings on what held all the earmarks of promise of a trip to shitty-yarn-land, so I used up some old pre-dyed brown sheep I had from when I v first learned to touch foot to treadle. I split it and spun it in stripes, long red sections and shorter turquoise. I love this color combination, the way it buzzes and jumps. When I was wee and coloring in my childhood kitchen with my lovely mother, I thought, really believed, that she invented it. She used to outline things in red and color them in turquoise and I would beam at my totally original and inventive mama. I’d tell other kids about how my mom invented those 2 colors together and they’d look at me like, well, like they look at me now, as adults.

Anyway, spun it up thick and thin, plied it, and set it. It's about 50 yards. My major complaint with this one is that many of the sections are too loose, they scoot around on the strand on which they're plied. I think more twist to combat that particular offense. I’m gonna try again today (with stove dyed rovings that happens to have a bit of my mama’s famous color creation it them).

In knitty news, I finished the pop’s socks and will post pics as soon as I kitchner the toes (btw, I looooove to kitchner, and nope, I’m not kidding – love it!). I also cast on for Little Bit’s sweater vest. It’s being knit out of the beat me brown and blue homespun, with bright green ribbing. I’m thinking v-neck but we’ll see at it grows. My plan is for it to take only a few days but may have to cast on a tank for myself, which will increase it’s needle time.

And to round this post out to cover an even everything, our good friends M and K and their great kids came down from NJ to hang out and once again I’m floored at what good people this world can spit out when it wants to. It’s not often I meet people in real life that move me but these folks never fail. The day was amazing and the kids were awesome. Little Bit is such a creature from another planet, such a kind, compassionate, other-worldly kid, and Beanie Bean (what he calls S from hearing K say it once, 2 years ago) is the same way. Here’s a picture that’ll make you wanna run out and fill your belly up with a baby, I know that’s what it makes me wanna do –

Posted by jacey at July 3, 2005 10:54 AM