Because the weekend is the time I get most of my knitting in, it goes without saying that this is when I have the most knitting problems. I still need to post pictures from the lace fix that happened on the 15th (need to find the camera cable for that).

Sadly, I have no pictures from this past weekend’s yarn fiasco. I wish I did; it was truely spectacular for only being half my fault.

I had been happily knitting away on Chart 2 of Icarus when my center pull ball decided to vomit a little. It was sort of to be expected; there had been difficulties when winding it up. The yarn was slippery enough that, when it got to the top of the ball as the winder went ’round and ’round, it would just start wrapping around the ball winder’s core before getting caught in the groove. So, I knew going into this that there was a potential for problems down the road.

As I was sitting in my LYS contemplating how to handle the yarn vomit, the owner, Karen, offers to help out. No problem, I’ve seen her handle many a knot with ease. So, she pulls on the yarn vomit. I could tell that she was thinking to just pull out the problem center section, wrap it back up, and let me go my marry way.

Unfortunately, pulling on the yarn vomit only made the ball more sick. More yarn spilled out and tangled till we had a true mess on our hands.

In the end it took at least 6 hours total (could have been more) to unravel it all and get it back into usable ball form.

And I am now finally working on Chart 3… I may very well be blocking this in the hotel room before the wedding.