Titles are Overrated

I remembered my camera today. Yee haw!

I thought I had pictures of some knits in progress - but it seems I am imagining things. I do have a few yarny photos that we will get to in a minute.

First, while I was away a few weekends ago in the great northern woods, Mr. CH took the kids to a local zoo. I left the camera with them for the weekend. I finally got around to looking at the pictures. It seems that Little Miss got hold of the camera and took pictures of *very important things* like:

the back of her brother's head



an alien that must have stowed away when they left the zoo - I wonder if she has him stuffed under her bed



a masterpiece of a lego car



the great pumpkin on its way home



I love seeing the pictures Little Miss takes and seeing the world through her eyes. It also helps that, unlike when I was a child, it doesn't cost me tons of money to see the pictures.

I remember when I got my first camera and was allowed to take pictures. I was 9 or 10. It was not digital. My poor parents had to shell out LOTS of money for pictures that mostly contained my dad hangliding - up so high that he looked like a black dot in a vast blue sky. In the first 6 weeks that I had my camera I used 9 rolls of 36 exposure film - at least 162 black dots on blue sky.

So anyway, the yarny goodness.

See, I haven't bought any more yarn. Just skeins with assembly required - and they don't count; right?



There was this sweater. I couldn't leave it there. I wish I could get a closeup of the yarn for you, but the camera won't cooperate. It's really more like 6,000 pieces of white and black and grey cotton thread held together and not even twisted really. It is nightmare waiting to happen as I knit, I know. This yarn is like the bad boy on that Harley your mother warned you about. You fall in love, he causes trouble and breaks your heart, but you can never let him go. I'm sure that is what this will be, but I still can't stop myself from jumping off the cliff.


I sat down to disassemble the sweater. Here's a hint - start from the top! Work from the shoulder seams down. I don't even know how much time I wasted with the mess I created. One hour and 600 times repeating the words "NO, it isn't ready for you to unravel yet" finally left me with 1 back, 2 fronts, and two sleeves.


From there I put Little Miss to work as I wound up the yarn on my new niddy noddy. 1 front got me a low estimate of 170 yards. I will easily have 685 yards of this yarn. Not bad for $2.99!



(It also seems someone may have licked my camera lens - or maybe it's slime from the alien fogging things up!)

At least if it doesn't work out with the knitting it can be used for "old lady hair"!