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Friday, December 24, 2010

Long story

Well today was very much not spent knitting or anything. Especially not starting my sweater (mumble grumble). So yeah, as christmas approaches, I spent the day making cookies. Or doing things like this:






But lets go back to the title of this post. I have a story that brings me to this question. Back in the spring I was toodling around at the music festival I was asked to sing at. There were lots of little tents and areas to buy handmade things and good Florida crafts. But there was one place in particular that caught my eye. A tent with an elder lady spinning wool! It was so cool and exciting to watch her go and she was selling her hand-spun yarn. Naturally I bought some. I picked out a blueish-gray color that has specks of pink in it. It was quite a large skein, being about 500 yards or so, I was told.  Thing is, I kinda forgot about it until tonight when I decided to roll it into a ball. So I untied the strings holding it in some kind of organized matter and this happened:






YIKES! It was a mess, but I knew I had to just get through it. How aggravating. Here's the finished product (to my surprise) its not all one piece.






I’m determined to cast on my sweater tomorrow. Wish me luck!

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