Eye Candy Friday: Beginners' Yarn
This Friday I may be hanging on a minuscule edge by the tips of my fingers against some rock in the middle of nowhere. I do so like to post Eye Candy, so here you go, a day early.
I bought this early on in my knitting life, back when I started to go to actual knitting stores, as opposed to the craft stores, for "high-end" yarn. This is Trendsetter Yarns' Chic, four plies of colorful textures that made me ooh and aah, and that clued in the saleswoman to pitch it to me so convincingly that I bought 4 balls to make a scarf. I never did make that scarf; I suppose I grew out of its fluffy, shiny, pinkness. And besides, it screamed "little girl" and not "me" (whatever "me" is now). I haven't found the right pattern, small or big, for it. Oh, I have plans for it recorded in my yarn spreadsheet: "niece something", scarf, trim on a scarf, trim on a jacket, trim on something felted. Still nothing that feels right for it. Well. For now the yarn stays in the yarn box, waiting until inspiration strikes.
Blogworthy: Issues
1: I found this link while looking for a recipe. Funny how links go from one topic to the next. It's a list of the top produce to buy organic.
2: Serious Eats asked why some former vegetarians return to eating meat. If you grew up not eating very much meat to begin with, it may be easier to adjust. While it's morally the correct thing to do, I think that a person's lifestyle, social setting and culture will also influence how you view meat eating, and how long you can stay vegetarian.
3: Via Kottke (a great resource), one blogger's personal experience regarding abortion rights.
4: Anti-Americanism: questions asked and answered.
5: Check out clothing manufacturer Patagonia's Stop Global Warming Virtual March.
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oh, the bits of green really make that yarn! Do you think you'll ever put it to use?
& Thanks for some great links!
I remember those first "high end" yarns. I even recall a few eyelash scarves I made for gifts :) Good links too, especially the one about abortion, I don't agree with all of his conclusions, but it's good to get people thinking beyond sound bites given to us by politicians.
Well, I have some pretty awful things in my stash. In fact, your yarn looks quite lovely, if not exactly to my taste, compared to the 49 balls (I may be exaggerating slightly, but not much) of chestnut colored Wool-Ease in my stash. Then there's the bulky thick-and-thin scratchy wool in not one but two ugly colors, and the "what-was-I-thinking" bulky thick-and-thin cream, magenta,and green wool that could be used to knit winter boots, but not much else. And we won't discuss the neon orange acrylic, because I still insist that it looked completely different in the online picture. As for the eyelask yarns, well, I have no excuse.
Isn't it funny to look back at what was available/what attracted you when you started knitting? Where I lived, all I could get was acrylic yarn that hurt my fingers or Lion Brand Homespun (also acrylic, but at least it was soft). Most horrible of all were the 4 or so balls of a Bernat yarn in dark rose with little globs of white and ochre. When knitted up, it looked like my cats had coughed up hairballs all over it ;-)
I love the wool.
I like your early acquisition yarn! I think my first was some Gedifra Rasta or something...it did, incidentally become a scarf, but it stretched out unmercifully.
Yikes! I'm not sure that eating meat is a moral issue - did I understand you right?