I had a lot of white wool. I should not be allowed to touch white wool, let alone own it in this quantity. I am so not a white wool person - but hey, it was cheap. I bought it and an equal amount of what turned out to be baby yellow in an ebay moment, and wondered what the hell to do with it ever since.
Enter the Kool-Aid. As you can see, if you have a sharp eye, I have dye lot issues. But it's still really pretty and fun to do.
I really like the green, much more than I thought I would. But now I'm hooked and want to try other colors - I think this yarn may be destined for children's charity hats or other small items. I don't trust myself to achieve enough dye lot regularity to make an entire sweater from this.
I don't show pictures of my current project, the Galway top-down cardigan, because it looks like this:
And I leave you with a gratuitous dog shot, in which said dog promptly turned his head just as the shutter clicked.
It's like I hit the button and a voice off camera calls him - "Murphy, look over HERE!" Or Murphy, Look DOWN! I always get many shots of the top of his head. Since the top of his head is less than 10 inches off the floor, that's pretty much inevitable, I suppose.
Spent the day in a huge multi-party mediation - tomorrow we go back. I'm there because the attorney is a "baby" lawyer who isn't familiar with the case - he's window dressing, I'm driving, though I am trying to push him out front to learn to do this stuff. It's not hard, it's just butt-numbing. We are a small part of the herd of disgruntled subs, sit in one room while the owner and GC sit in other rooms, and the mediator plays Dr. Phil, running between rooms. Boss suggested I bring my knitting - he thinks it's cool that I knit. I didn't today because I had this forlorn hope that we'd get cut loose fast. Now that we are there for Day Two, I just may have to bring the boring Galway cardie. I was climbing the walls today.
I have the "up the dogs nose" problem with photos. With Oscar it's "oh I'm cute, look at what a great pose I'm in, I'm so handsome HEY WHAT's THAT MOM'S HOLDING UP???" and the photo is right up his nose.
ReplyDeleteI really like the blue and green together - VERY FUN!
The cats are the ones who can't resist checking out the camera - Boris hears it turn on and comes to see it. I like the blue and green too - they are more delicate than it appears in the very bad bathroom lighting. Since I do not get home when the sun is up during the week, maybe this weekend I will pose the skeins in natural light - they have subtle shadings, it's really neat. I may have to mix colors on a few skeins next.
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