Tag Archive: Yarn


A Room of Her Own

I was in a knitting frenzy. Don’t ask me what had come over me it was just one of those days where I wanted to knit everything in site.  And I went to it.  But then I needed my knitting guage measure; out to the living room I went.  Then I needed a different pair of needles oop those were in my room and off I went.  Then I needed to check on the previous sock that I had made.  Oop that was downstairs where I had left them to take picutres for Ravelry. 

In short I walked up down and around my house trying to get to all of the items that I needed I made so many trips that I quickly became very frustrated.  I am, or at least I thought I was an organized person prior to all of this nonsense.  This was not only frustrating I was WASTING valuable knitting time!  Simply unacceptable!  How was I going to fix this I pondered?  I stared at the accumulation of all those trips and thought to myself of all the other areas in my home upstairs, downstairs,  work bag, and car where items were stashed and <BING> the light went off!  My room yes, yes, this just might work.  I am very fortunate to have a rather large room and since I’m not married (thank you LORD!) my room belongs only to me! 

What if I cleared out a corner, if I brought this chair up?  And brought this in, I could move this around… Quickly the idea emerged and I was off to work.  A few short hours later VOILA!  So the picture below is horrible no matter what I do this room just doesn’t receive enough natural light in the winter to take a good picture.  Alas, I know what it looks like in my head…  Sanctuary, peace, serenity, I don’t get to spend enough time there but when I do; dogs at my right in the sunny spot, generally my teenager taking over my bed I find a place often yearned for, home.

Home is where the heart is.

Home is where the heart is.

I love it! I love it! I love it!  You know what it’s like when you get a little obsessed with something???  Well having created my own Yarn Swift and then getting the new ball winder I may have gotten a little OCD… I mean just a little itty bitty tiny bit.  Getting the hang of using them took about 3 skeins to accomplish but once I had it down no piece of yarn was safe.  Dear Lord who knew I had so much stash that needed to be wound?  Every piece of leftover yarn that wasn’t in a cake somehow became one. You know you’ve got it bad when you’ve exhausted your own stash and have had to call in your other knitting buddies to bring you their stash so that it can be wound as well.  They needed nice neat pretty wound balls too don’t they?  No, really I’m not kidding… THEY DO: Lette’s Cakes.

All the yarn cakes!!!

All the yarn cakes!!!

And this isn’t even a fraction of the balls that I’ve wound! WEEE!  Anybody, else need to have some skeins wound?

A knitter who adores everything knitting I am!  My goal here is to add great:

  • Knitting Websites
  • Knitting Blogs
  • Yarn Sites

or anything else cool that I can find!  To that end I’ll start out with one of my faves!

Fiesta Yarns – http://www.fiestayarns.com/html/2/index.shtml – If you haven’t seen their yarns you are truly missing out.  This is one of my all time favorite yarn brands.  Their yarns should be a sin they’re so delicious.  I have often bought one of their yarns and sat on it for months waiting for the perfect pattern to surface before I will break it out for use.

As a matter of fact I’ve been stashing 2 skeins of Raspberry Mocha Rayon Boucle for well over a year now.  I am in love with it if only the brilliant pattern would surface so that I could put it to use!

Well that’s all for now hopefully something more inspired next time.

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