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It’s got to be something

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I seem to be experiencing a sort of knitting ennui.  Thankfully, there is a baby to knit for.  After a few weeks on bed rest, my friend’s baby apparently couldn’t wait any longer and came still several week early.  Baby will be staying in neo-natal for a couple of weeks until she can breathe, eat, and maintain body temperature.  I had already knit up a cute hat and booties, but they were sized to fit a 6-month-old.  While that will fit eventually, I decided to knit up a quick preemie sweater.  Heck, the pattern I’m using only calls for one 50 g ball of sock/light fingering weight yarn, which means this should be like knitting 1 sock.  So, that’s what I’m knitting while the sock and the stole I have on the needles bore me.

I’m not even excited by the shawl I have ready to cast on.  A lovely dark blue wool silk laceweight, and I just look and the ball of yarn and sigh.  No compulsion to cast on.  Wish I knew what was wrong with me.

Maybe I need to spin more.

Yarn!

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Purlescence Yarns held a yarn swap on Sunday in keeping with the Knitter’s Review slow stashing idea.

I rummaged through the fiber bins on Saturday and picked out the things that no longer made me happy or that I just really couldn’t see myself ever actually knitting.  This included a whole plastic bin of the stuff that I bought back when I first started knitting over 6 years ago (e.g., Homespun and Wool Ease).  I figured that if someone wanted it they could take it, otherwise, everything left on the swap table at the end of the day was to be donated to charity.  Either way, it’s out of my apartment.  Surprisingly, someone actually took the sweater’s worth of Wool Ease I had brought.

I came back with 2 bags of mostly sock and laceweight yarns.  Now, they will be going through quarantine.  I think I’m going to do it the quick and dirty way and stick everything in a garbage bag with a few moth balls.  There’s too much to stick in the freezer.  Besides, I don’t think The Husband would appreciate opening the freezer door looking for vodka only to find sock yarn.