I started the Lotus Blossom tank from last summer's Interweave Knits last weekend. It actually started with me making an enormous mistake. I got out the hank of linen and thought, "well, since I can't use my ball winder to wind this I might as well not get the swift out either, I'll just wind it off the hank." I sat down on the couch, laid the hank in my lap and started. Yes, laid the hank in my lap. Yes, I'm an idiot. The result was what Anabel called a "yarn monster."
I am posting this on my blog for two reasons: 1) to warn anyone else not to do this and 2) so that you all will remind me not to do it again. This is the second time I made a mess like this. The first time was right after I started knitting, almost five years ago, and I didn't actually own a swift. This time, I have no excuse. The first time the yarn was wool and Erik ended up being the one to untangle it. The linen is much easier to untangle, I have to say. Lucky for me, Anabel is intrigued by puzzles like this and took it upon herself to finish most of the untangle for me at last week's BobaKnit. Thank goodness!
That done, I swatched, washed the swatch and cast on for Lotus Blossom. I thought I twisted my stitches, though, and was knitting a moebius when I wanted a tank.
It was highly entertaining. After all that I wasn't going to buy the Hempathy, even though I've been looking everywhere for it. My mother, however, pointed out that I had been looking for it, it was a great color and I didn't know if I'd find it again. My mother is an enabler! Ah well, at least I got a sweater's worth of some nice yarn out of it. Now I just need to figure out what to knit.
Even though I know better I end up with yarn monsters as well.
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Oooooo, Knitter, I'm very impressed. I think I'm still just someone who knits. And you are quite fearless as well, with the perseverence you put into your Bombshell, and buying the hemp without a pre-planned project. I've only bought yarn once for which I didn't have a project, some wool slub. It disturbed me so deeply that I had it in my house that I immediately knit a scarf, sans pattern, which was too tight and short, and immediately re-knit it into a new scarf with bigger needles and fewer stitches per row, unravelling the other scarf as I went. It was gifted away before it was even finished, I was in such a hurry to be done with it.
I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one!
I'm not sure the buying of yarn without a project in mind makes me fearless. It makes me a Stasher! I have many projects worth of yarn in my stash because I bought it with no project in mind. It sounds like you're a project-based yarn buyer usually. 🙂