ALL THE YARN.

[sciatrix]

It's been a really long day and I'm really frazzled from work and all the annoying stupid mistakes I made today and I just got home from seven hours over the microscope--BUT I PROMISED TO POST MORE. SO. (I do not promise this post will be coherent. I have not managed coherent for three hours now. BUT IT WILL EXIST.)

So yesterday I went out and bought four skeins of yarn, partly out of a need for something comforting to do and partly because EVERYTHING WAS ON SALE FOR LIKE 40% OFF, and I am helpless in the face of such magic. I am already plotting what to do with it. (Why did no one warn me about the accumulating yarn thing before I started knitting? I already have, like, two bags fully of it, and part of that is the Gift Yarn that one of my friends left me with as she was getting ready to move.)

Right now, what I am actually working on is a trilobite hat. I am working on this hat partly because I wanted to learn to cable, but mostly because I am a giant biology nerd with a huge fondness for trilobites. Cabling is turning out to be... much easier than I thought it would be, actually. It looked scary, how was I to know it's amazingly not?

Comments

[shiyiya]

Oh god, yarn collecting. I have so much yarn. It's ridiculous. Like half of my top bunk of full of yarn.

(I should learn how to knit things that are not rectangles at some point, except the non-rectangle thing I really want to be able to knit is socks, and I have neither sock needles nor sock yarn and the one thing I do not need is more stuff.)

[raumkins]

Ahh, I wish someone had warned me of just that when I started crocheting. Now I have yarn tucked into all of my bookshelves. I also wish someone had told me just how much yarn is needed to finish a scarf, because I have exactly half of one sitting on top of balls of yarn that don't /quite/ match, and I can't seem to find the exact yarn I used the first time. Sad forever.