July 16, 2005

bubbletop trash-heap

Check the yarn to your left! 500 yards of what will be 1400 yards of merino for my Union Market sweater, nice colors eh? Yeah, I was feelin' all the shit and my inner narscissus started with the ohhh, you're so talented, you've got that perfect yarn-y thing down, hot sista. You're the master, the boss, the WOMAN! You're also quite attractive. Yep, I was feelin' pretty good so I thought I'd branch out, stretch out my yarny fingers and try making yarn that strongly resembles a pile of trash. Observe --

On the left we have bubbletop trash-heap, it's 80 yrds of self striping white merino, coral merino, natural alpaca, and coral merino with unspun/felty bits in blue, green, and white, plied with a thin silver. It's also pretty thin, to be knit on size 3s and you'll see by the small pictorial at the bottom of this post that 80 yards on 3s, ain't shit.

On the right is blackrain, 50 yards of a bit of rain I found hiding in a corner, plied with black merino, alternating coils and red flubs every foot or so. It's pretty cool, I wish I had more.

And just what the hell am I gonna do with this?

Now to my humilation, with all that big talk about me and my even yarny hand shit, you knew humiliation was coming right? I couldn't be so bold and not have the fiber gods cut my thread to the quick. So I thought it'd be a grand idea to knit up a bit of bubbletop trash-heap and see if it really did some stripey goodness. I though 80 yards should make a hat. Observe my ignorance --

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hmmm...this doesn't seem right at all.

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mom, is it supposed to make my head hurt like this? I can not make a normal human face.

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What? What the hell is this thing? Well, at least in this picture I'm wearing clothes, but you should see what they do to me sometimes. Sick. Now where's my official birth certificate, I'm outta here.

Posted by jacey at July 16, 2005 07:55 AM
Comments

That green yarn is to dye for. And I love your fancy yarn experiments - you're so talented! Too bad there wasn't enough for a human sized hat, but it looks very cute on the cabbage patch doll.

Posted by: Linda at July 16, 2005 09:07 AM

that hat is awesome. s keeps making me come back here every morning to look at pictures, she's totally in love, so the hat made her giggle like crazy, and suggest that you have a baby who can wear that hat.

Posted by: kathleen at July 16, 2005 09:26 AM

Dude, you spun yarn to make a hat for a cabbage patch kid? Is the black for an evening gown for Barbie? Bawahahahahahahahaha

Posted by: Jon at July 18, 2005 10:13 AM

My cabbage patch kid never had such great accessories. (Actually, one of mine kinda looked like that and had the horrid name of "Cornell Shea.") It's very cute nonetheless.

Posted by: Carrie M at July 19, 2005 11:01 AM

if you read the plucky fluff book there will be even MORE yarns that spin up to 20 yards and look like a christmas tree when knitted into the coaster that 20 yards would make. that is what i wondered, what is it FOR? if just to do it, that is ok, but i dunno. maybe i am just boring?

Posted by: natasha fialkov at July 20, 2005 10:09 AM