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I ordered a couple of sock needles from Knitpicks a week or so ago and the package got here yesterday. I’d been waiting and waiting for this thing. They sent me an email when it shipped on the 21st of April, and every single day, I was listening for that mailman to drop it off.
You can hear his truck from the living room, the starter’s so bad. He has to park and turn it off between every house on our block, because we all have our mailboxes on the houses instead of on the street. So he’s turning that thing on and off at nearly every single house. He probably could park at one end and walk the whole block in a few minutes, but he likes to drive.
ANYWAY…
Two days ago I was running around the house doing whatever and there’s a knock at the door. This lady’s standing there with a square priority box in her hand. (Apparently a package that may-or-may-not belong to me had been mis-delivered to her house.) She was holding it up and squinting at it through her bifocals and asked me what the last name was at this house. I told her, and she said no, that wasn’t it. So we both shrugged and she got in her car and started backing down the driveway. And I’m thinking…”Wait! Maybe I had something delivered to Glampyre Knits!”
SO, I caught her a few feet down the street. Before she rolled down the window, she clutched my package to her chest like I was coming to rob her! I told her about the Glampyre Knits thing and she handed it over. But, you guys, she did NOT want to give up that package!
It was a pretty surreal interaction all the way around. Especially that she thought I was so shady. She really took her self-assigned duties as Postal Deputy seriously.
And…it turned out NOT to be my needles. It was SOCK YARN from Unwind Yarn Company in colorways “Carnelian and turquoise” and “Parrotfish.” It’s 70% Merino, 30% Seacell. GORGEOUS. This combination of fibers is lustrous and really has a great squish to it. I think I’ll use 2s to knit these socks.
My needles didn’t get here until yesterday. I knew it might be a while, and they were totally within the 5-14 day time limit, but after day 9, I was really getting jittery. I’ve managed to keep the sock casting-on to ONE new pair so far, but I have a few new yarns that I really want to try out.
This is some that I bought while we were living in Germany. It’s really shimmery. 45% bamboo, 40% superwash, 15% polyamide. I’m knitting my first “toe-up-two-at-a-time-on-one-needle”s.
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4 Responses to “Sometimes you gotta wait for it, other times you gotta work for it.”
Parrot fish is so pretty!
-Didi
Wow Stefanie, beautiful yarn!!! I haven’t been brave to do toe up socks, two at a time.
OMFG ARGH
I’m trying, very hard, to not use any bamboo in my knitting or spinning, ever. It’s nowhere near as “Green” as everyone would like to think it is. The greenest thing about it is that it, as in Bamboo to process into yarn, is a fast-growing resource, kind of like how, to re-forest western Ireland, they’re planting (er, have planted, not certain how long the planting process was to go on, wen I was there in 1996 and had a very knowledgeable tour guide as to the issues concerning the country[side]) Pine trees, which aren’t indigenous to the area, simply because they grow quite quickly, are green (in colour) as can be, and are lush-looking, due to their innate fullness. But yeah. Bamboo yarn, or fibers, use horrendous amounts of chemicals and thus, the process to make it isn’t green at all.
Too bad, it feels kinda spiff, but I’m refusing it on principal.
Tencel, on the other hand, as well as Modal, and Rayon, are environmentally responsible. Rayon’s gotten a bad rap due to the early process used to create it, as well as clothing it had been used in during the past century, however it’s reputation is turning around.
Modal is spectacular, and it’s my favourite of the manufactured yet not synthetic fibers, it’s like Rayon on Steroids, it holds up extremely well when wet, and therefore is wash/dry-able at home. Rayon’s supposed to be dry cleaned in order to get it to hold up.
Tencel is one nearly every spinner/knitter is familiar with, so I won’t delve into that.
This website has excellent diagrams showing the production of Rayon and why it’s environmentally friendly. The byproducts are, in most situations, recycled back into the process of making it, the only outgoing products from the production are the fibers themselves, which is ultra-awesome.
But gosh darn it, if that sock yarn knit up macro shot isn’t pretty! It makes me want to use that yarn! Akk! Bad! No! I can’t look!
I’ve been a fan for awhile, and your Bluebell Boatneck…or is it Boatneck Bluebell (ugh, the book is across the room) is only the 3rd sweater I’ve ever knit. Unfortunately it is also the first sweater I ever felted. DAMN!
We have a family cabin in Cloudcroft. We don’t get their often but I would LOVE to get a tour of the fiber scenery. Drop me a line sometime..and kiss your Maizy. She’s just deliciously kissable with those chubby cheeks under the tree!