You have a lot of yarn.....

My good friend, r~, visited this weekend. She is not a fiber person. When she saw all the yarn I had in my living room (in baskets, in project bags, and such) she said "You have a lot of yarn."

I laughed and pulled her up into the guest room and the full sized futon covered with canvas "under the bed" storage bags STUFFED with yarn.

She was appalled and accused me of being crazy.

Then I showed her my spinning bag. :-)

Little does she know. There was more yarn in the guest room closet; and the 'exotic' yarns in the dresser (that only r~ and I believed in!). I guess you could say she really only saw the tip of the fiber iceberg.

I even had a bag of yarn that a friend's husband picked up for me at a tag sale. It was mostly acrylic, but there was some Reynolds "Dream" that was real nice. Unfortunately I'm allergic to Mohair, so I sent it back to Missouri with r~ for a neighborhood acquaintance of hers who is a fiber gal.

It's good to spread the fiber love.

MS3: part 3 - ACK!

LIFE LINE, LIFE LINE, LIFE LINE!!!!

I swear, I just bought some non-flavored dental floss to use as a lifeline. I figured I'd knit to row 35 (I was on row 32) and then string it.

I messed up on row 33 so bad I HAD TO FROG!

I'm starting over, now. And I'm so sad.

MS3: part 3 - AARRRGGGHHH!!!

LIFE LINE, LIFE LINE, LIFE LINE!!!!

I swear, I just bought some non-flavored dental floss to use as a lifeline. I figured I'd knit to row 35 (I was on row 32) and then string it.

I messed up on row 33 so bad I HAD TO FROG!

I'm starting over, now. And I'm so sad.

The Good, The Bad and the Absent Minded

The good news is that I think I found a bind off that will work for me! The Knit, Knit, Pass over, *slip stitch back onto left needle, knit, knit, pass over* repeat between *'s

Although I end up with a bound of edge that has twice as many stitches, I also end up with a bound off edge that is (at least, if not more) as stretchy as the cast on edge!

Cheers!

The bad news is that I lost my MS3 swatch. I've been looking for days so that I might reblock according to suggestions I've received. I just can't find it.

I finished the coral scarf (highlighted in "Knitting People are Good People") using my new bind off approach and should have photo up shortly.

Right now I have TONS of work-work and house work to do, so more later.