Insubordiknit

Look at me, all patriotic and shit

Against all good and holy inside me, I call this yarn Patriotic, and truely, it's about all I can muster on the patriotic plateau. But here, on this day, the 4th, it seemed fitting.
While I can staunchily get behind a night of loud and pretty colors as a celebration of walking away (or fleeing in the night and then with guns a penchant for putting people of color on the frontlines) from an oppressor, we sure fell into the old adage of looking into the abyss, didn't we?

But the yarns pretty, right? here's a final picture of it coiled, cause I just can't stop with the pics! The recreation of the previous spinning experiment except with more twist, turned out swell. I spun it with the roving I dyed from a few posts back, just split and then how it came, and it came with a patriotic thunder (something I hope my naughty bits never do). It's wool and mohair and about 160 yards.

I'm running out of room for all my yarn, I can't knit it fast enough and I can't stop spinning!

I finally finished the socks that wouldn't end. They should have been done in time for fathers day but I got cocky and since I usually finish a pair of socks in less than a week, I figured I could do these within two. I figured wrong. What I didn't remember was when I put on my pop's boots, it's like I'm still 6 yrs old -- my feet swim in them. For the pic, I should have put my mailbox next to them so the size could truely be appreciated. B.I.G, and quite long. They took so long I had to take breaks and knit other things, like the secret pattern that I submitted to knitty, of which I knitted 3, and cleaves, and... But they're done and I'm all smiley. The little design between the stipes is his initails - B.M.

I worked last night on Little Bit's vest and I'm thinking of casting on for my tank soon, and perhaps the UnionSquare pullover from the new IK, though I'd have to spin some yarn for it, ohhh, yeah, I'll do that!

Posted by jacey at July 4, 2005 08:16 AM