You know my temperamental camera? It deigned to work today. This sounds like a good thing, and it’s nice that it takes pictures, but today it added stripes to the pictures. Foolish and evil camera.
I got some pictures of my yarn cabinet for you. When I’m feeling down I go to it and stare, or take yarns down and stroke them, or I take everything out and sort and organize. Even with ugly stripes, isn’t a lovely sight?
All of the purple yarns came out bluer than they are in life, and you can see that the yarn cabinet has to stand a daily barrage by the children, but still, the yarn itself goes on being beautiful. It’s a very cheery object to behold in the morning.
In other news of the beautiful, I got a fantabulous package in the mail recently! It contained any number of wonderful goodies, but the pièce de résistance was a beautiful woven scarf! My friend Andrea made it. I have enough on my plate right now, but this was enough to make me want to take up weaving. The fabric is very different from the knitted, and there’s a totally different method and rhythm to it. I can stare at it for ages. Even taken by a bad, stripey camera, the picture can’t hide how pretty this scarf is. See?
Ironically enough, I didn’t own a scarf until this one arrived! I’ve made plenty, but never for myself. Now I lack no more!
I wish I had something more interesting to say, but it’s been a lot of work and exhaustion here lately, and my brain seems to have fried. I want desperately to leave you with something witty or wise or funny, but all I’ve got is this: I’d like to go sleep now. But it’s 4 in the afternoon and the children are roaming the apartment at their leisure, so sleep must remain elusive for a while yet.
Oh, and one thing more! Happy birthday, Mom! You’re wonderful, and I hope your birthday is wonderful, too.
March 15, 2007 at 1:33 am |
I love yarn porn. I aspire to have a stash I am not ashamed to post pictures of on the internet.
March 20, 2007 at 8:21 pm |
I’m very impressed with how neat and respectable your yarn is. Mine is piled in several laundry baskets in my closet. It’s not pretty.
March 21, 2007 at 1:13 am |
Thanks, Lori! That’s actually after the spawn had pawed through it multiple times – it’s neater when I’ve just organized it. I used to keep the stash in trash bags, but the man decided that I needed something more respectable and we bought the cabinet. Admittedly, I still have a trash bag in the closet, but that’s because my mother bought me a bazillion things of Wool-Ease and it won’t fit in the cabinet.
The nice thing about the cabinet is that it limits my yarn buying. I have to clear out room before I’m allowed to buy more. In theory, anyway.
March 22, 2007 at 7:51 am |
What a pretty scarf! You lucky thing. That color suits you well.
Nice looking yarn stash, too. I wish I could be so organized. I keep all of my yarn in laundry baskets stacked in a corner.