[crafty] stuff from yarn, yarn from stuff

About a week ago, a friend watched me rip some stitches out of a project I was making.
He said, "You know, it's pretty cool that you can make stuff from yarn. But in a way, it's even cooler that you can make yarn from stuff."

Now that I have frogged two sweaters, I am starting to agree with him. It is just about the coolest thing ever. I now have about eleven hundred yards of dusty rose chenille yarn, and four or six hundred yards of gray wool blend. And I still have four sweaters to go! Two are really yummy wool blends, a third is another chenille in blue, and the forth is this awesome novelty yarn, black-and-gray-and-silver fuzzy stuff.

A project for later in the day is going to be making my own kniddy-knoddy, which is a thing you wrap yarn around to make hanks and measure it. After I do that, I can try to get the kinks out of the yarn.

I'm really feeling pretty jazzed about this. :) I'm going to have enough to get started on a lapblanket for my chair in blues, purples, and greys, and the novelty yarn is going to be the trim on my next shawl. Whee!

grrr

We have been having major problems with our ISP, which is RCN.

Just listened to my roomate be told by them that we have a virus and that's why our net connection is going down twenty times a day, and it couldn't possibly be a problem on their end. "There is no virus! I'm running Linux! I'm a trained professional!" says he. But they insist, it can't be that we need a new modem or that there's a network problem.

So. Does anybody have ComCast and want to tell me about it? Right now we have a package through RCN - local phone, cable tv, and cablemodem for around $100 a month. We'd want to switch to something comparable, if we can improve our reliability.

[crafty] even more frogging

So now I have two and a half sweaters done, and I'm still loving it.

Got my kniddy-knoddy set up, and I'm loving that, too.

I think tomorrow may be my day of washing yarn. Any suggestions on what to use for weights to get the kinks out? (Yes, one situation where you want to.)