Ok, so I must confess that I didn't even know that this existed until I checked out Julie Crawford's blog http://www.knittedbliss.com/, which I highly reccomend that you follow. We share a lot of the same interests. Plus, she is drop dead gorgeous. It is sickening. I have been told that I have an eye for color and really good taste, but she makes me want to crawl in the corner and cry. But I digress.
Since this is the first time that I have had a blog where I blog pretty regularly, I figured what the heck. Let's give this a go. But I need to catch up on the questions. So here goes:
Question 1: A Tale of Two Yarns
"Part of any fibre enthusiast’s hobby is an appreciation of yarn. Choose two yarns that you have either used, are in your stash or which you yearn after and capture what it is you love or loathe about them."
Ok, the loathe is pretty easy. Anything acrylic or orange. I am sorry for all of my orange-lovers out there. It is a trendy color out there, especially in the cooking world (Hello, Rachael Ray and Mario Batali!) But I just can't do it. I look like a prisoner who should be picking up trash on the side of the road or a washed out carrot. As far as the acrylic goes, 'nuff said.
http://www.ravelry.com/projects/emmyknitslikekraz/andys-orange-hunting-cap
As far as great yarn, I am a new malabrigo lace worshiper. OMG. I want to make a lace shawl, fingerless gloves, or lace stockings in every color. I want to lay naked and roll around in it. I know. TMI. The grapes of wrath colorway reminds me of my youth in Sonoma County, CA, and one of my favorite movies, AWalk in the Clouds.
Question 2: Skill + 1 Up
"Look back over your last year of projects and compare where you are in terms of skill and knowledge of your craft to this time last year. Have you learned any new skills or forms of knitting/crochet (can you crochet cable stitches now where you didn’t even know such things existed last year? Have you recently put a foot in the tiled world of entrelac? Had you even picked up a pair of needles or crochet hook this time last year?"
Gosh. Well, I guess that I would say that I always thought that I was pretty fair in my skills at both. But I would deliberately choose intermediate projects because I didn't really want to strain my brain. But I would always look at gorgeous, complicated things and think,"Gee, I wish that I could do that, but I probably can't, and anyway, I don't have the time." Well guess what, folks?! I make the time, and I can! It is awesome!!!
Question 3:
"How do you keep your yarn wrangling organised? It seems like an easy to answer question at first, but in fact organisation exists on many levels. Maybe you are truly not organised at all, in which case I am personally daring you to try and photograph your stash in whatever locations you can find the individual skeins. However, if you are organised, blog about an aspect of that organisation process, whether that be a particularly neat and tidy knitting bag, a decorative display of your crochet hooks, your organised stash or your project and stash pages on Ravelry."
Oh my. I am in the unfortunate position of being forced to move at any second to God-know's-where, so all my yarn is packed up with the exception of my current wip's, which now amount to about 10. But, back in the day, I had a yarn room. It had book shelves, and all of my yarn was sorted according to fiber content. But I really wanted to put them in baskets on the shelves, because it just tended to pile up and fall off of the shelves. I really wish that I had a whole week to take pictures of all of the yarn I own, write down the fiber content, try to remember where I bought it, when, how much I paid, and how much yardage it has, then put it all on Ravelry. But I am pretty sure that people who do that have housekeepers and paid servants.
So now you know all of my secrets. Pretty boring, huh?!
