Jon's Knit Blog

Don't Tell!

OK, it's a secret, and I'm really rather too embarassed to have anyone know, but middle of last week, I actually bought more yarn. It was Wednesday, and I had to visit a relative in a hospital on 19th Street. And of course I had just found out about a knit shop on 14th Street so I had to stop in. And I fell in love with the look and feel of this stuff called Colinette Mercury. I bought three skeins, not really worring about the fact that that probably wasn't enough yardage to build a real scarf.

Well, I got the stuff home and wanted to play with it, so I attempted to wind the first skein. Can I just tell you it was the most difficult skein of yarn I ever had to mess with? That is, until I got to the second skein... The yarn is a knitted 100% viscose ribbon/tape. It's very slippery and has quite a sheen to it, which means that if you touch the "yarncake" once it has been wound, it falls apart. And gets tangled. Man, does this yarn know how to tie itself into knots. So it's a good thing that I decided to only wind one skein at a time.

It's not a good thing that I had to take the yarn back down to the knitting store because I realized that my orginal design scheme would neccesitate an additional four skeins of yarn if I wanted this scarf to actually be scarf-length. And in the taxi, the wound ball unwound itself. I spent some time at the shop rewinding it, but the course of getting it home (and leaving it, undisturbed, in its bag, in my locker at work) did not make the yarn happy. I have successfully disentangled it once again, but the problem now that has arisen is that the yarn has really decided to twist itself rather fiercely. So rather than wind the yarn into a ball, I have wound it around a piece of cardboard, and I am just knitting a few stitches and then unwinding the next bit... Luckily, I'm almost done with this skein and then can move onto the next skein -- which I will wind and knit within rapid succession so that I do not have to move the next ball. And I will probably use a sock as a makeshift "yarn-bra" since I, as a man, have no bras sitting around the apartment. Yarn or otherwise.

I do have this, though:

Which will soon be joined by this:

The colorways, as they will be placed in blocks across the finished scarf, are:
Lapis, Cardinal, Popsicle, Florentina, Neptune, Cardinal, Lapis.

Now can someone please help me figure out what I have to do to stop buying yarn and actually finish something?

Posted by Jon at April 5, 2004 01:48 PM