[crafty] stuff from yarn, yarn from stuff
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snugglekittyAbout 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!
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!
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Date: 2005-02-28 02:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-28 02:22 pm (UTC)Your help with explaining how to add text actually made me feel a lot more like I could DO this sort of thing.
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Date: 2005-02-28 02:54 pm (UTC)-Excellent. Glad to help.
(Incidentally, do you have "Get message board replies" turned on in your LJ? It's on this page, about 4/5ths of the way down.)
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Date: 2005-02-28 02:44 pm (UTC)I'm not having any problems with the kinky yarn, so unless you're doing something fancy with it, you could probably just roll the yarn into balls straight off the sweaters and skip the intermediate steps.