Knotty Pine

Thanks for the "Get Well" wishes.  Now I'm under the sea of things that were ignored while I was getting better.

 

When I finally felt well enough to knit, I wanted a change from garter.  I love garter, but sometimes there's too much garter.  Right now the Modern Log Cabin is falling into this category.  I had a plan.  I would finish a repeat on the long ignored Celite and then get back to the baby blanket with a renewed passion.  So I found the lovely Celite and started with Row 1.  I got to Row 3 and realized that I had to wind the second hank of Malabrigo Lace.  I found it, gently unwound the hank, put it on the swift, and carefully cut the ties.  I found the end.  And then I found another end.  And then another end.  Hmm?  I picked one end and started the swift spinning.  The swift came to a deadly stop.  I tried to untangle and start the swift again.  Whapp.  Stopped again.  I picked the other end and had the same outcome.  Maybe this is why this hank had 3 ends?  Tried the third & met the same outcome a third time.  Instead of tearing through our basement screaming and spitting, I left it alone and went upstairs.

I tracked down Ava and explained the situation.  "You could do it by hand," she said.  That's what Ravelry  Malabrigo Junkie's forum suggested.  After the kids were in bed, I poured a big glass of wine and bought the hank into the family room.  I picked, untangled, strategized, and cussed.  Finally I admitted that I'm a beaten woman.  It isn't that the hank is tangled, but the yarn sticks.  It will get stuck so I'll have to pull pretty hard to get the yarn out of it's pickle.  I'm going to estimate that it would take hours to complete the task.  And then it would probably look ravaged.

Body Bag Shot

So that's where I'm at: stuck.  What's a girl to do?  I need the skein to finish it, but I can't bring myself to ever put a skein on my swift again.  I'm traumatized.  And the skeins aren't that easy to find.  I found one online vendor with the exact color, but I wasn't familiar with them.  That always makes me uneasy.  Do I go back to the store that I bought it from?  I love this color and the yarn.  The lace pattern is nice, but I was starting to fall out of love with it.  It sort of looks like a bunch of penises.  I think this is why I hadn't touch the project in a while.  But once I started working on it, I was really excited to wrapped up in Malabrigo.  I think I just want to be wrapped in Malabrigo.  Penises be damned. 

Here are my options: 

1. Find the color & finish the wrap. 
2. Fuck the wrap.  Order 2 Malabrigo skeins in another color & make the Whisper Cardigan from the latest Interweave's. (Make sure that the vendor handles the center-pull action)
3. Find the color, finish the wrap, order 2 more skeins, make the Cardigan too.

Help my friends.
L

Comments

[.: tani :.]

penises be damned. {snicker}

sorry. about your luck with the malabrigo lace - i've had the same problem. if it weren't for school i'd offer to wind it for you (i can sit for hours and untangle yarn...for some reason i find it soothing. yeah. soothing!)...so if you have the patience to wait for spring break or graduation (in june!)i leave that out on the table. :)

anyway, my vote goes to the cardigan. there is no need for "no love" knitting...besides, if you get another skein of the stuff, it might be completely different.

[Leigh]

Rip it out and make the adorable cardigan! That's my vote!

[Jennifer]

Cardi all the way. Life's too short to work on projects you're not in love with.

[mamie]

i vote three, but does that still make me a friend?

[tricia]

Go for the new and shiny and I'm happy to help out with the wayward skein.

[ReesieAnnPA]

My Hubby is always glad to work on my knots for me - that is if I were ever to let him because I like a good tangled challenge. Would the Flyer be up to the task? Or the girls? So basically my advise would be to:
1) find someone with patience to untangle for you
2) put that project aside until #1 has been completed
3) reward yourself with new & shiny for putting up with the whole mess
4) when you feel like it - pick the project up again - penises be damned - don't let them get the best of you! :)~