Yarn Woes (but sort of the good kind)
My mother... she loves the estate sales and the garage sales. I've always told her to buy any yarn she finds there if it's less than 50% acryllic.So, when I got here from DC, I found this...
Now, I wasn't surprised by this, mainly because my mother had called me about it. On my cell phone. When I was trying on sports bras at Macy's. That was an interesting moment.
This stuff is full of dust. I imagine it's somewhere between ten and twenty years old. It is the dreaded Sugar 'n' Cream cotton. But it's old school.
OLD SCHOOL! Seriously, old school. I have never seen that label before. I'm going to buy a ball or two of bright blue and make it into a Mitered Square Rug from Summer 2004 Interweave (web only). The color scheme matches my parents' bathroom and my mom liked the idea, so... (And the pattern wants 10.5 needles, so hopefully that will be easier on my wrists than 7s)
Also, I managed to find a picture of one of my first sweaters!
This sweater is from the book Sweaters from a New England Village by Candace Strick. It's 100% acryllic yarn that I got at a garage sale for $1 a skein.
This is back when I didn't know any better. I knew how to read a pattern, knit a sweater with a somewhat cabled yoke, but I didn't understand about yarn quality or gauge or anything like that. So I made a neon orange sweater in the medium size, which ended up being a good fit for my (then) size 18 self. I'd bought 7 skeins of the yarn and ended up with a few skeins left over. I don't know where they went, but I also don't miss them.
This sweater was a great learning experience, and it went off to charity. (It's one of my mom's charities - I don't remember the name, but they made sure that it got to someone who needed it and not at goodwill for a dollar) I hope whoever got it enjoys it as much as I enjoyed making it. And I hope they can pull off that color of orange!
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