As The Yarn Turns

Camel Yarn

Someone gave me a huge cone of cream colored Camel Yarn that looks to be about lace weight. I've never knit with camel yarn before. Right now I'm thinking about make a light shawl with it. From the looks of it, I should have plenty left over for something else too.

When I first started playing with the yarn, it seemed almost too fragile for any kind of garment. As I started playing with it, the yarn knits up nicely and not as fragile as I first thought. The only down side at the moment is that it has a tacky feeling that makes it hard to knit. No doubt that is the result of whatever treatment they put on it for machine knitting. For a first try, I knit up a simple garter stitch swatch with a US size 4 and then a US size 8 needle. (Results below) The next step is to wash it and block it and see how the final result looks. I may end up putting some of the yarn in a skein to see if it will be easier to knit. After that I plan to try some of the patterns in Barbara Walker's "Treasury of Knitting Patterns". It will be interesting to see how this turns out.

Itsy Bitsy Spiders

So the other night I woke up and felt something crawling on me. I thought I brushed it off and onto the floor so I went back to sleep. The next day I had a huge welt about 2 or 3 inches wide on my arm. It's not painful, just looks ugly. It turns out it was spider crawling on my arm. I must have just knocked him into the bed and then rolled over on him. That's when he bit me. It wasn't a black widow or a brown recluse but I did learn a few things from this. Apparently all spiders are poisonous. It's just that some are worse than others. The other thing I've learned is to make sure the critter crawling on your arm is out of the bed before you go back to sleep.

by Sydney  |