Ten in, Three out
A fair warning right up front - there are no cute kid pictures today because it wasn't all that cute of a day around here. Don't get me wrong - the girls are always cute, but Sophie is still acting fussy (I think I'll take her in to the ped tomorrow just to make sure it's not an ear infection) and Julie and I had an utterly failed attempt at the start of potty training. That's all you need to know about that. I'm at all worried about the not-potty-training-yet issue, it's just too bad she's not ready and we wasted all that dirty laundry and rugs. Now you know more than you needed to know about that. :-)
Let's get to the yarn, already. We had our Monday-morning knitting group at the coffee shop, and then I dropped by the post office with three packages to mail out. Each had enough yarn for a pair of socks and that's all I'm going to tell you because I figure it's up to the recipients to say something about it if they want to and because frankly my brain is so fried right now I can't remember exactly what or to whom they were.
So I came home, and I put the mail out, and as I opened the front door in tumbled a bag full of yarn scraps. I instantly realized that crap I screwed up again. I had arranged to be here on Sunday when a lovely local knitter - two miles away local - was going to stop by and drop off her scraps and I was going to show off my family, the blankie and the yarn. I had really been looking forward to meeting her and I felt horrid for standing her up. And all you nice readers are thinking in your minds right now that I must have had a really good reason for doing so. Nope. Nothing other than fried mommy-brain. We were out running errands on Sunday, and even though I had mentioned the 1:00 appointment to Joe about 10 times, we both spaced it out entirely. Now you little trolls can have something real to hate me for instead of making up false worries about how I'm going to dispose of this yarn. Ha! Kathy, thank you for not hating me. I'm really looking forward to having you over to help sort things out in a couple of weeks. Here's what was in Kathy's bag - a lot of exactly-what-I-asked for and a little bit of cotton, too I think:
Then the mail came. I have a theory about Mondays. Somehow the mail magically
accumulates at the post office on Sundays when nobody is looking. I don't know if that is really true, but it would explain why Monday is always such a big mail day. Anyway, there were nine packages waiting at the door this afternoon. Today's packages were full of lovely yarn, but what I noticed most was the packaging. Let's take a look.
This first one , from Erin in Valpo Indiana, speaks for itself, although what you can't see from the picture is the bright orange address label on the front. Opening this one felt like opening a gift, or maybe an expensive box of chocolates. Except those "chocolates" are lots of nice yarnies. Oh- and I just realized looking at it again (I usually take the pictures during the day, then sort the yarn as I blog it after the girls are down) there is a perfectly sweet little card in there too. It coordinates with the tissue paper and everything.
Jae from Irvine, California sent three big chunks of exactly-what-I-asked for. Go take a look at her blog. She knits, she bakes, and she takes great pictures. Congratulations on seeing your work at the fair! That's a great feeling.
Jenni in New Jersey sent a teeny bit of Koigu, some wool/cotton, and a few exactly-what-I-asked-fors. So many people have sent their yarn all neatly packaged in Ziplocs like this - I usually take it out so you can see the yarn better, but I find it fascinating how everyone likes to hermetically seal up their yarn. It actually makes it safer when I'm opening the packages so I don't accidentally cut the yarn while slicing open the package. That only happened once before I learned to be really careful.
Heather in Ottowa (that's right, another Canadian package woot!) sent this package, with a note on some really cool stationery with lasercut ducks at the top. She sent a little bit of cotton/wool, a little bit of Koigu, a little bit of exactly-what-I-asked-for. Yay!
Janet in Boston sent a big box of what she says are the scraps from 15 years of sock knitting. There's lots of good stuff in there.
This package from Lee in Charlotte, NC was amazing for the packaging alone as well...first there was the bubble wrap. That made Julie's day. She was so sad when I threw out the bubble wrap from the first day, and now I'm going to dole this batch out in little pieces so she can have some every day that she asks for it for a while. Then, look at those balls individually wrapped in baggies, and in each baggie is a slip of paper saying what the yarn is. Not to mention, Lee sent a sweet little note with perfectly neat handwriting.
Ingrid in Norway - that's right - NORWAY, people! sent a post card of Telemark, showing more snow than we usually get even here in Minneapolis. She also sent some hand-dyed orange, which I love and is going in the blankie either tonight or tomorrow, plus some Opal and some Norwegian sock yarn.
Rosemary, aka Chappy, in Galesbur, IL, sent this ball of STR yarn. This is the first I've heard of this yarn, and it looks a lot like Koigu. Surprisingly, Google shows me lots of people talking about using it, but no places selling it. Anyone know who's got it for buying? I'm just curious. Rosemary, I know you want me to send you the blanket pattern, but honestly there isn't one. You'll just have to look at the tutorial in my blog entries since I've started - and there will be one or two more as I get the edging going too.
Whew! Another day's unpacking finished. You all have sent a lot of yarn so far - the giant Rubbermaid tote is overflowing, as is the IKEA bag, and I have two gallon-sized ziplocs of just wool/cotton alone, and two more of the Koigu-types. I think it's just about time to do some math and figure out how much yarn per blankie and try to assemble some kits for shipping back out. It's going to take some time, so don't hold your breath, but it's going to happen. The whole balls - enough to knit socks - are in high demand via e-mail. I'm not surprised. It's going to be hard to pick who gets what.
Let's get to the yarn, already. We had our Monday-morning knitting group at the coffee shop, and then I dropped by the post office with three packages to mail out. Each had enough yarn for a pair of socks and that's all I'm going to tell you because I figure it's up to the recipients to say something about it if they want to and because frankly my brain is so fried right now I can't remember exactly what or to whom they were.
So I came home, and I put the mail out, and as I opened the front door in tumbled a bag full of yarn scraps. I instantly realized that crap I screwed up again. I had arranged to be here on Sunday when a lovely local knitter - two miles away local - was going to stop by and drop off her scraps and I was going to show off my family, the blankie and the yarn. I had really been looking forward to meeting her and I felt horrid for standing her up. And all you nice readers are thinking in your minds right now that I must have had a really good reason for doing so. Nope. Nothing other than fried mommy-brain. We were out running errands on Sunday, and even though I had mentioned the 1:00 appointment to Joe about 10 times, we both spaced it out entirely. Now you little trolls can have something real to hate me for instead of making up false worries about how I'm going to dispose of this yarn. Ha! Kathy, thank you for not hating me. I'm really looking forward to having you over to help sort things out in a couple of weeks. Here's what was in Kathy's bag - a lot of exactly-what-I-asked for and a little bit of cotton, too I think:
Then the mail came. I have a theory about Mondays. Somehow the mail magically
accumulates at the post office on Sundays when nobody is looking. I don't know if that is really true, but it would explain why Monday is always such a big mail day. Anyway, there were nine packages waiting at the door this afternoon. Today's packages were full of lovely yarn, but what I noticed most was the packaging. Let's take a look.
This first one , from Erin in Valpo Indiana, speaks for itself, although what you can't see from the picture is the bright orange address label on the front. Opening this one felt like opening a gift, or maybe an expensive box of chocolates. Except those "chocolates" are lots of nice yarnies. Oh- and I just realized looking at it again (I usually take the pictures during the day, then sort the yarn as I blog it after the girls are down) there is a perfectly sweet little card in there too. It coordinates with the tissue paper and everything.
Jae from Irvine, California sent three big chunks of exactly-what-I-asked for. Go take a look at her blog. She knits, she bakes, and she takes great pictures. Congratulations on seeing your work at the fair! That's a great feeling.
Jenni in New Jersey sent a teeny bit of Koigu, some wool/cotton, and a few exactly-what-I-asked-fors. So many people have sent their yarn all neatly packaged in Ziplocs like this - I usually take it out so you can see the yarn better, but I find it fascinating how everyone likes to hermetically seal up their yarn. It actually makes it safer when I'm opening the packages so I don't accidentally cut the yarn while slicing open the package. That only happened once before I learned to be really careful.
Heather in Ottowa (that's right, another Canadian package woot!) sent this package, with a note on some really cool stationery with lasercut ducks at the top. She sent a little bit of cotton/wool, a little bit of Koigu, a little bit of exactly-what-I-asked-for. Yay!
Janet in Boston sent a big box of what she says are the scraps from 15 years of sock knitting. There's lots of good stuff in there.
This package from Lee in Charlotte, NC was amazing for the packaging alone as well...first there was the bubble wrap. That made Julie's day. She was so sad when I threw out the bubble wrap from the first day, and now I'm going to dole this batch out in little pieces so she can have some every day that she asks for it for a while. Then, look at those balls individually wrapped in baggies, and in each baggie is a slip of paper saying what the yarn is. Not to mention, Lee sent a sweet little note with perfectly neat handwriting.
Ingrid in Norway - that's right - NORWAY, people! sent a post card of Telemark, showing more snow than we usually get even here in Minneapolis. She also sent some hand-dyed orange, which I love and is going in the blankie either tonight or tomorrow, plus some Opal and some Norwegian sock yarn.
Rosemary, aka Chappy, in Galesbur, IL, sent this ball of STR yarn. This is the first I've heard of this yarn, and it looks a lot like Koigu. Surprisingly, Google shows me lots of people talking about using it, but no places selling it. Anyone know who's got it for buying? I'm just curious. Rosemary, I know you want me to send you the blanket pattern, but honestly there isn't one. You'll just have to look at the tutorial in my blog entries since I've started - and there will be one or two more as I get the edging going too.
Whew! Another day's unpacking finished. You all have sent a lot of yarn so far - the giant Rubbermaid tote is overflowing, as is the IKEA bag, and I have two gallon-sized ziplocs of just wool/cotton alone, and two more of the Koigu-types. I think it's just about time to do some math and figure out how much yarn per blankie and try to assemble some kits for shipping back out. It's going to take some time, so don't hold your breath, but it's going to happen. The whole balls - enough to knit socks - are in high demand via e-mail. I'm not surprised. It's going to be hard to pick who gets what.
posted by Shelly Kang at 8:41 PM
12 Comments:
Hi. You have an interesting blog. It's fun to see what you receive everyday in the mail. Yes, you are right about the post office - I used to work at one - The truck still drops off mail at the P.O. on Sundays - the postman just doesn't deliver it....
My kiddos LOVE bubble wrap too. Whenever they get a package- the packaging is almost loved as much (or more, sadly) than the gift! Tee hee!
Have fun with all that cool yarnyness! :D
Regarding STR (Socks That Rock) yarn. It's made by the lovely folks at http://www.bluemoonfiberarts.com . They sell it from their website, though they'd be the first to admit that the selection there is only a fraction of what they actually have available. They have plans to expand the site.
To see a larger selection of colorways, you can check The Fold at http://www.handspinning.com/thefold/yarn.blue.html
I love the blanket idea so much that you've inspired me to create one for my 'baby' who is going away for her first year of college this fall. If I set a goal of a minimum of one square a day, I'll have hers done when she returns at the end of her first year. It'll give me a little meditation/reflection time each day to indulge in thinking of her as I stitch each segment. (It'll help that I'm using what I have the most leftovers of - Caron Simply Soft - so it's producing large squares that'll be durable enough to stand up to dorm life.) Again, thanks for the inspiration.
Potty Training--no fun! I had a tough time with them both, they just did not want to start doing it. They WENT all over everything. I gave up and let them tell me when they wanted to wear big kid pants.
So many people said "they are too old for a diaper" and "I did it this way" but I ignored it. It was like, the kids just woke up one day and wore underwear and never went back. They did it themselves; I just had to show them where the potty was.
Hang in there! The majority of us don't hate you, as far as I can tell! Don't let a couple of angry people ruin what was a happy and fun experience for you.
I'm enjoying watching you open packages every day, and even getting a little inspired to maybe think about making one myself! (I have no leftovers, though. My 6-year-old son likes to play with them, and is learning to knit. All scraps are his.)
As for potty training, I found that he treated training underpants exactly like diapers because they felt like diapers. When he was ready, we went straight to cutesy underwear he picked out himself. Never even wet the bed after that.
#7 started yesterday wanting to pee on the potty. I need an extra me for several days, I think. I will need to move some knitting into the bathroom, anyway, LOL!
I was totally unprepared for this. The last 3 were boys, and I don't even have some girly undies for her. Ah, well, she likes plane and cars.
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Glad to see the package came through so quickly! Can't wait to see what you come up with now that you have enough yarn to challange SABLE :-) What you think is Koigu is acutally Fleece Artist from Canada. Same idea just a different company.
Kathy knows about mommy-brain! She and I have been friends since college (and that was a while back); she asked me your address and it wasn't until I retyped it for her that I realized you were in the same suburb. So I have the mommy-brain going on too.
I really AM going to send you some scraps myself, I just haven't been to the post office yet. This will just stretch it out more, right? ;-)
Wow, are you ever going to have a story to tell with that blanket once it's all done. Do keep the foreign yarns and put them in the blanket(-s), that'll be so much fun in years to come!
Wow! With as much yarn as you have accumulated that you won't be using in the blanket-you may as well have arranged a sock yarn swap! My package for you will be in the mail on Friday, btw!
Yes, the tiny piece of blue, pink & white yarn is cotton. It was in my scrap bag & I yossed it in. If you can't use it, just toss it. It was too small to really do anything by itself. BTW which of our many yarn shops do you prefer?
Kathy
Really enjoying your blog. Yarn gift packages and cute pictures.
I groaned with sympathy when you said there was no cute picture today and gave the reason. My boys are 3 and 1 and we had the same kind of day! (The elder is almost perfect with the potty training now, but let's just say the little one got away from me during a floor-level diaper change and leave it at that...)
Between that and the multiple-personalities lurking in our little ones, thank heaven for knitting!
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