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February 02, 2006
Overheard at The Watering Hole....
Exasperated Sheep{ES}: Did you hear that she lost a ball of yarn?
Religious Sheep{RS}: Why yes she tore apart the house looking for it and even whined a bit
ES: She used it as an excuse to buy some handspun on Ebay
RS: Isn't she on some stashalong?
ES: Well she's not a real participant and anyway handspun isn't real yarn...
RS: whaaaaaaaaaa?
ES: No really its like if you have every bit of your walls covered with posters and decide not to buy another and then come accross a lovely sketch at some craft show~ art vs mass produced.
RS: I get that.
Amused Sheep{AS}: Give an inch...
RS: hmmmmmmm?
AS: Well she was rather upset over the month of gauge issues and has this Olympic Knit~along coming up
ES: she didn't?
AS: Yesssss she did. Bought more yarn for OKAL
ES: She's crazy
RS: Preaching to the choir here
ES: How much?
AS: Well she ordered a kit from Allegro yarns but one of the colors is backordered so she figured you know she might not get it in time and even if she did she might not get gauge....
ES: No, NO!, No don't tell me
AS: So she ordered another sweater kit from another place but didn't get a order confirmation within 24 hrs so.....
ES: I said don't tell me~ what a freaking train wreck that girl is
RS: Choir
AS:... Bea Ellis is having a sale on Heilo and what could be more perfect for a OKAL than a norgie...
ES: crazy, simply crazy
RS: Word
AS:... so she picked up another 2 sweater kits
RS: she is not a small woman
Shy Sheep{SS}: she sat on me once
ES: 4 sweater kits huh
AS: yes and she noticed Bea asks for 14 days which won't be in time for OKAL so.....
ES: puh~lease don't tell me
AS: She's glad she ordered 3 other kits for small stuff cause 'you know since I'm ordering anyway might as well'
ES: insane
RS: Dude! Choir
SS: She sat on me once
Loving Llama{LL}: well its her parent's fault I mean the gal wore second hand stuff til she was a teenager. Not hand me downs since she was the oldest but you know garage sale stuff.
ES, RS, AS in unison: ugh stop with the excuses
LL: well she did... and they threw away all her stuff when she was 6....and again when she was 10 cause of moving.... just saying deap seated deprivation issues that lead to hoarding instincts.
ES: she's 41 in a few months she needs to get over it
AS: anyway so she started thinking that maybe, just maybe, it would be harder to find the lost yarn if she had you know even more yarn burying it.
ES: true, true
LL: she pulled out all her yarn looking for the missing handspun and piled it onto couch...
AS: she remembered Cookie's post on knitting mindless sweaters instead of socks to pare down the stash and figured WW+ projects instead of lace projects would work the same wonders.
RS: good thinking and her husband wants to move cubby land so its real nice of her to empty it...
LL:... and chairs
SS: I was hanging out on a chair one day...
ES: yes good idea as if she would ever actually follow through on anything...
LL... and floor
RS: her husband thinks cubby land should be used to house us not yarn...
SS: her husband saved my life after she sat on me
ES: her husband isn't that nice.
AS: really? What did he do?
ES: So late last night she is thinking about the missing handspun and realizes another hank is missing.
RS: She didn't? Not after that buying frenzy..
ES: No but she figured all her handspun was in a seperate box.
AS: Didnt she look through all her boxes and bags and such?
LL: Of course she did. She put all her yarn in one room out of any containers.
ES: yes she did but she spots a box on her husband's work area overflowing with saws, and wires, and doodads...
AS: that guy has no nice things.
RS: Really. He doesn't even use that stuff for building her a blocking frame.
ES: So on a whim she takes out all the stuff and...
Finds her handspun.
Posted by Elka at February 2, 2006 11:54 AM
Comments
Oh, Elka. Too funny! As a repeat offender myself, all I can say is that stash reduction usually results in a massive stash enhancement (it's the equal and opposite reaction!).
Posted by: Julia at February 2, 2006 10:56 PM
Loved it, Elka. Knitting is certainly not your only talent. You have way big writing and humor talent!
Posted by: Mary Ann at February 3, 2006 08:50 AM
Elka- whenever a panic attack you described happens- breathe s-l-o-w-l-y.... and for heavens sake, stay away from the computer.
Posted by: Lorraine The Knitting Hammy at February 3, 2006 11:30 AM
You crack me up! "She sat on me once." Hahahaha. Ah, the yarn obsession.
Posted by: Cookie at February 3, 2006 12:59 PM