Balls!
Sunday, April 23rd, 2006Tags: Future Knitting Plans, Recycling
I finished ripping that sweater apart last night and this morning during the F1 race. Now I have 4 big balls of yarn (front, back, an arm and the neck) plus one slightly looser skein from the first arm that I’m going to wash first. Les keeps talking about how he wishes he had a cat so the cat could play with my yarn. Sure, they’re cute when they play with yarn, but oh my! That would be a horrible disaster.
(Then again, we never chopped the fingers off my cat so I don’t know what it’s like to see a declawed cat playing with yarn. Is it cuter? Does the yarn stay intact?)
I have decided to knit Mariella from Rowan’s Tuscan Retreat with the yarn. The colour’s pretty similar, and it and “Holiday” (the wholly too-expensive Rowan yarn they recommend) have a similar consistency and shine. (Side note: I’m really excited about this new Marie Wallin character who’s designing for them. I don’t like glimmery yarns, but her Persephone is also quite classy.)
Anyhoo, I think it’s rather fitting to knit an Italian-inspired shirt with yarn that was ripped while watching Ferrari win at Imola. GO SCHUMI!
Don’t forget cats like to chew, so I suppose even declawed cats could figure out how to wreck yarn. My (clawed) cats generally aren’t interested in my yarn unless I am using it and it’s jiggling around, but I always put it away when I’m not. The one time I forgot, one of my cats chewed through the working yarn (when I was making those Ja Woll socks). No harm done, I just reattached and kept going. I hide my yarn because I am paranoid by the horror stories I’ve read about where long pieces of swallowed yarn can wreak havoc on a cat’s innards.
Comment by MaggieApril 23, 2006 @ 11:24 pm
Oh my, how scary
I will make sure to keep my yarn away from Pounce. as I prefer digestive havoc to be unwreaked.
And yeah, I suspected the yarn chewing was bad enough.
Comment by EveApril 24, 2006 @ 4:34 pm