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This is also probably the right place to deliver all my hard-earned thoughts and opinions regarding sewing, patterns, yarning, crafting, and holy cow what the hell have I been thinking all this time I can't believe my husband has been putting up with my rants for so long!!

Thanks hubs.

Radio Silence

I know I haven't blogged in a while and although I probably rake in 1 or 2 regular readers, I feel compelled to apologize and explain.

I'm sorry! I needed to take a short break that blossomed into almost a month - how easy that happens. But good reasons are two:

1. Our family went on a 2500 mile road trip! This is actually a terrible reason because who thought it was a good idea to go on such an extreme road trip with 2 dogs and a toddler? BAD IDEA.
2. I'm pregnant!

So being pregnant is an excuse because of morning sickness. Blogging, knitting, eating, thinking and breathing all seem to take a backseat to clutching your stomach while in the fetal position and moaning for death to come quickly.

Exciting new, yes, but pregnancy blog this is not. :) Look forward to more of the same, cranky posts blissfully free of baby-gushing. I try to save that for when it counts - and saying it to myself on the internet seems pretty darn silly. Not that I am against talking about it - I'm not - but, well, this is a knitting blog! Lots of knitting blogs talk about babies and I mean I'm ok with babies but the only good stories I can think to tell usually involve poop and I've been warned that poop is not the type of topic that will earn me friends & followers and wow my colleagues.

I would warn you of upcoming increase in baby-geared knits but apparently I already own that department, so you shouldn't see any significant change.

Thanks for reading, more posts to come!

Variagated Yarn - the evil Siren

For some reason I keep falling in love with variegated yarns - then once they've been wound or knit, I want to vomit from the color chaos. Why can't I seem to remember this, especially when throwing down over $50 for an especially sexy skein??

Any one else have this problem? I keep thinking maybe I'm just picking the wrong kind. I LOVE things like this amazing cardi featured on my effing favorite blog ever, Knitted Bliss:

adore. EVERYTHING. about this.

Or this delightfully tasteful Noro piece:

But for some reason I keep ending with something like this:

Guaranteed not to stripe?!?! That's something people were going for?!?!

I love gorgeous color combinations but can't handle when they are mashed together to look like a snow screen on an old TV. Pure nausea.

So basically today I'm depressed to know that this:

gorgeous

...will at it's best, become this:

color stew

Of course, this is just me - I can grip that some people love this. And the woman who worked this shawl above is DIVINE and I envy her steady hand. I'm sorry if anyone loves this and thinks I am nutso. I also happen to hate it when my food touches other food on a plate. So...clearly I'm nutso. I am also too depressed to find a pattern for this yarn I bought yesterday. Sigh.

A blog's untimely demise

As usual, I am always excited to find a new blog devoted to yarn arts.
However, lately I seem to keep coming across ones that are defunct, or at least well past their hey-day. What is this about? Are yarn people too busy to blog, or am I tré behind the curve?