Yarn, Spouses, and Dyeing
No pictures in this post, just some humor. My husband D and I went to visit Robin and her husband P as well as take a look at a rental property. While down there, Robin let me use her umbrella swift to wind off some 400 yards of fingering weight yarn (Kona, superwash, fingering weight) for a dyeing project. Pictures of that yarn to come, after it drys.
I wound about 140 yards when I came to an end! That was suprising as the skein is over 1000 yards to begin with. What the f. . . , I thought. I looked at Robin in stunned surprise, and I'm sure it was a dumbfounded look. She suggested tying the strand to the next strand, but since the yarn is for someone else, I decided to just skein it and start over. Sigh, yup over.
Now, our spouses have gotten into the habit of joking about our fiber projects. I think this is the way they keep sane while Robin and I discuss our crafts. Anyways, her spouse pipes up and suggests that I "duct tape it together!" Alas, although we laughed quite a bit over this, duct tape DOES NOT solve all problems! I can just see the owner of the yarn looking at the piece of duct tape and wondering "what the bleep was that woman thinking!"
Okay, that's my giggle for the weekend. Pictures of my dye job later this week. It's lovely and I'm planning on making me some yarn with the same colors!
Happy fibering!
I wound about 140 yards when I came to an end! That was suprising as the skein is over 1000 yards to begin with. What the f. . . , I thought. I looked at Robin in stunned surprise, and I'm sure it was a dumbfounded look. She suggested tying the strand to the next strand, but since the yarn is for someone else, I decided to just skein it and start over. Sigh, yup over.
Now, our spouses have gotten into the habit of joking about our fiber projects. I think this is the way they keep sane while Robin and I discuss our crafts. Anyways, her spouse pipes up and suggests that I "duct tape it together!" Alas, although we laughed quite a bit over this, duct tape DOES NOT solve all problems! I can just see the owner of the yarn looking at the piece of duct tape and wondering "what the bleep was that woman thinking!"
Okay, that's my giggle for the weekend. Pictures of my dye job later this week. It's lovely and I'm planning on making me some yarn with the same colors!
Happy fibering!
-- posted by Annette @ 10:03 PM
5 Comments:
I still think it's a good idea... ;-)
And the word is *Duct* tape, Lady!:)
D
Grumble, yes, I saw these. I fixed "duck" to "duct". Now, I just have to ask P, would you duct tape your computer together?
A
I believe I have duct-taped my computer before. Several times, in fact. Solves all the world's problems, right? ;-)
Mr. P
Oh sure, and would duct tape last through a dye bath, heating, water, dyes, rinsiing. I'm not so sure about this Mr. P. And I'd like to see these so called computer parts that got duct taped, hmmm? Has Robin seen them? :)
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