…of Helena:
On Thursday night, I finally had enough. I had made it through the body and almost ran out of yarn. I had evaluated and decided to use leftover sock yarn to do a garter stitch edge on the skirt of the sweater and managed to save enough yarn to do sleeves. I made it through the sleeves, picked up the button band and made it through three rows before I noticed the puckering and general unhappiness.
I snapped. RR watched me throw it across the room, looked at me and said, “so…not liking the sweater?”
The man definitely has a firm grasp of the obvious.
So I ripped it. With gusto. Then I knit a cute little beret and am happy. Baby’s mom is happy, baby will be happy and that’s all that matters. ;o)
So…riddle me this: why do I keep finding myself staring at the leftover yarn cake and contemplating how well wool will burn? It might be time for a ritual cleansing… ;o)
It’s gorgeous! I think it’s the perfect solution, and that instead of burning said wool (that I dyed and would be sad to see go up in flames) maybe you could knit matching mittens? Is there enough? If there isn’t, I’ll understand if you grab the matches. :P
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That’s a shame but I know that feeling of relief. Just get rid of the yarn.
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Instead of burning the yarn, why not have a ritual cleansing? You could spritz it with lavender water, pile it next to a lit candle and ask the universe what it wants to be and leave it for a bit.
I had a teacher in grad school (airy-fairy grad school) who used to pray to Asphalta, the Goddess of Parking and taught us the song she made up and it worked! Consistently! When I lived in SAN FRANCISCO!! Maybe we need to find a Goddess who helps divine the true purpose of a given yarn…
Adorable beret! I agree with Tina about possible matching mittens or maybe some booties. It’s too pretty to burn (and I don’t think wool burns really well anyway and I’m sure if it does, it would smell terrible!)
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The beret is great and I’m sure a teddy will wear it after the baby is done with it.
Pick a day for ritual cleansing. I’m IN!
Adorable beret! Believe me, you’ll feel better if you burn the yarn (or jsut put it in the goodwill bin if you can’t bring yourself to butn it). I know from experience that yarn burns good!
The beret looks so cute! Is the yarn itself that bad? It looks lovely to me! Seems a waste to burn it. maybe it needs to go on a long journey ;-)
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Burn wool? Noooooooooooooooooooooo…… put it into a time out. Pop it into a ziploc and throw it back into the stash. Eventually it will learn it’s lesson. Sometimes it takes a couple of time outs, I have found……
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Sometimes yarn needs to be taught a lesson. Although that yarn did make a very cute little beret.
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what a sweet beret!
a ritual cleansing sounds like a good plan. sometimes yarn just holds on to the bad vibes of a bad project. boy do i sound new agey. :P
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What a cute little hat!
Perhaps that yarn needs to live with someone else.
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Cute beret! Love the idea of a ritual cleansing of the remaining yarn.
I love that beret! Nicely done.
You could send that yarn over my way. I’ll teach it some manners. :)
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Noooooooo, step away from the wool! The had looks fantastic…even on a stuffed bear, lol.
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Very cute hat!!!
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Very cute beret. I’d say stuff the yarn in a bag and give it to a senior center. Good karma and ya get rid of the pretty but evil stuff.
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