Well, very little knitting has taken place lately as I have been:
- busily setting up shop as a Girl Scout Troop Leader (Brownies, you rock!), and
- untangling this.
What can I say? I like to untangle things. Necklaces. Yarn. Doesn’t matter. Hand me a mess and I’m happy as a clam. (It’s a sickness, really.) It’s the silkiest, softest royal blue boucle with a glamorous sheen to it, and it came free in a mountainously generous quantity from a blogging friend who just wanted to get the tangled nightmare out of her house. (I suspect it was taunting her, as it is starting to taunt me.)
It was actually *way* less tangled when she tendered it to me, but I’ve been poking around in it for several days now, draping it around my neck and patiently tugging and loosening on the knots. I’ve gradually picked out a few tiny balls of yarn. (I snipped it whenever it looked frayed, so I’m now up to about four blue balls of varying sizes. Heh-heh. Blue balls.)
In retaliation, it sits around and tangles itself up further at night.
It is now starting to piss me off, however; I will not be defeated by a fiber! I am starting to think dreamily about cutting the Gordian knot. But no. This skein is going on the edge of the sofa where I don it like a soft blue mule halter and pick out another inch or two of yarn whenever I watch TV. Mindless, yes. And I think I just may do a dance of victory when I’ve finished with this one!
[Update: Sad news. I was defeated after all. I gave up after hours and hours and hours of trying to untangle this. I was afraid my brain would start to resemble the tangles if I continued.]
In the no-other-news-to-report column, I took a silly little quiz about “What Kind of Yarn Are You?” And this is the thanks I get …
You are Dishcloth Cotton. You are a very hard worker, most at home when you’re at home. You are thrifty and seemingly born to clean. You are considered to be a Plain Jane, but you are too practical to notice.
What kind of yarn are you? … brought to you by Quizilla
Hey … A COTTON DISHCLOTH? C’mon … give a gal some hope!
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