The Yarnarian Gets Smart!

After dyeing a zillion skeins and twisting them into pretty skeins and into lovely circles of yarn, I've finally gotten it! There are people who are natural yarn twisters. I'm not one of them. Any time I get a skein to look nice is pure luck. And I love to show skeins twisted into a circle. The trouble is that they always fall apart when I move my hand away, and then I get this weird circle formation. Well, guess what? I figure it out. I can use a little bowl to hold that yarn in place. Yay, me!

Here's Lady Jane, which I just listed, in ruth formation: scraggly.



And now here's Blossom that I dyed up yesterday



Better, huh? Took me long enough.

Knitting news: Here's more on that doll sweater I showed you yesterday. I'm now knitting and frogging and knitting the back.



I have this idea in my head, and I'm working purely from that vague notion of what I want this little sweater to do. It's a lot of fun, but takes some time because when I'm not happy with it, it gets frogged again. Pretty soon I'll be known as the Frog Queen.

OK, forget the sweater idea I just posted. I'm doing something different for the back and it looks dumb with the front. I like the back better, so away with the front. Good thing I have lots of yarn. ;-)

Linda - That "scraggly" one wasn't very scraggly; I have some that defy me! Now that I've found my paper bowl, I'm a happy camper. Piffle to naughty yarns!

Ria - The bowl one does look good, doesn't it? Took me forever to figure that out. Silly moi.

The Yarnarian Misses the Beach!

I love the beach. I grew up in coastal Connecticut and we could take the bus down to the beach, which was on Long Island Sound. On low tide, you could walk out forever. And high tide was not a crazy surf. The first time I actually went to the Atlantic Ocean was when I moved to New Jersey. What a difference in waves!!!

Where we stay on the Cape is a short walk (.8 mile)to Nantucket Sound, which feels just like LI Sound. So just about every evening after supper, we walk down and get our water fix.

This year I took my digital camera with me, and discovered beauties of sand and water that I never saw before. And being a designing knitter, I discovered patterns that I never noticed! Take a look at the lacy end of the surf. I now see "print of the wave" in it.




See what I mean? And look at the colors and patterns in the surf.





On the knitting front, I've gone back to my Kona shawl. I had to tink 4 rows of pattern because I mucked up the set up pattern for the lace part. I tried to get away with it, but that was a dumb idea, so very carefully I tinked and tinked and tinked! And now it looks correct. No pics at the moment because there's really nothing to see but lots of garter stitch, and 5 rows of pattern. I adore knitting socks, but it is so pleasant to do something else.

Holly - I'm going to bore you to death with pictures. You'll be sorry you asked for them. ;=D

Linda - That walk down to the beach and a nature walk through bogs and dunes are our favorite activies at the Cape. And I love the smell and noise and taste of the salty air.

KV - I did dye up yarn with those water colors only lighter. Pastels are my thing, and I can't get away from them. ;-)

Sharon - I do miss the ocean, so I'll just have to look at my pictures. It is good to be back. My idea of a great vacation is to have a great time and then to love coming home.