Bad day
You know your knitting isn’t going well when, tired of being frogged and carried around aimlessly for weeks, even your sock yarn needs caffeine. So badly, in fact, that it takes advantage of a sudden lurch in the car, and leaps rebelliously into a cup of half-drunk coffee and happily sits there, soaking it in.
Worst part was I had to let it sit there for miles until I reached my destination. I couldn’t bring myself to knit from it any more even though there was a fair bit between the ball and the needles. Instead I clutched the half-done sock in fear that it would jump into the cup too, and took a photograph of the soaking ball instead. Later I washed and squeezed it out, but that skein, and any sock that eventually comes of it, is always going to stink of coffee.
I pretended to be all upset about it, and cheered myself up by buying this cool implement, which I have long coveted. The wait for it to arrive is already killing me.
That is hilarious! it needed caffeine or was trying to end it all
It is in fact a very cool implement and well worth the wait – altho I still resort on occasion to having my 6 yr old do the ball winding while I hold the skein. Ball winders are infinitely more satisfying for me… do you have one? The way the little cakes of yarn can be neatly stacked makes me very happy for some reason.
How fortunate that your yarn has a somewhat coffee-flavored color to it… could have been a baby pink…
Cheers
Oh, you will love your swift! But I have to ask: was there milk in that coffee? Because that complicates things . . . I should know!
That is funny but I feel your pain!!! They have seaweed yarn and chocolate yarn so why not Caffeine yarn!! Enjoy your swift I have that on my wishlist too and would be interested to hear your thoughts after you use it.
Ok, that’s extremely funny. The most humorous part may be your priority of photographing the yarn-ball-in-coffee-cup!
Just think of it as a new invention…
hey… this post cracked me up when i first read it, but i’m getting a little concerned at the long absence following the “bad day” post. all is well, i hope.
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