Can of Koigu

Clever packaging?  Check
Yarn I like?  check
Quarterly credit at Jimmy Beans?  Check

This is a Koigu Paint Can in the Troll Valley collection.  Most of the other colorways sold out before I snagged this one or I would’ve been tempted to get more.  There are 5 mini skeins.

K-9

A few good things have come out of this virus mess, especially for Doctor Who fans.  There have been watch-alongs of favorite episodes.  These have included Tweets from past cast members and new mini episodes written by past show runners.  I loved the one by Steven Moffat that featured Strax.  The most recent, by Russell T. Davies, really got to me.  The actress who played my favorite companion, Elisabeth Sladen, passed away nine years ago.  This left a big gap in her character’s story.  The mini episode described Sarah Jane Smith’s memorial service.  We found out what happened to a number of characters who were suddenly left in limbo when The Sarah Jane Adventures ended.

Among the original Doctor Who characters to appear was my second favorite companion, Ace.  No longer a teenager with a backpack full of Nitro-9, she has reverted to her real name, Dorothy.  We discover that Dorothy now is the keeper of the little tin dog, K-9.  It is silly to admit, but this made me happy.

What the h*ck does all of this have to do with yarn?  I saw the episode over the weekend.  Today (Monday) my Doctor Who club yarn came from The Dyeing Arts.  Colorway is K-9.

Acadia National Park...

...was the inspiration for the latest Must Stash kit.  I visited it in late October of 1992 which doesn’t seem as long ago as it actually is.  Yarn and candles and stitch markers and sock soap and a patch for my favorite yarn tote and more.  Yay!

I have pretty much cleared out my Ravelry queue, which is a dangerous thing.  I have reverted to my old sock knitting habits.  I have one pair in the works and KAL pair that starts in a couple of days.  That one will use some of my Must Stash stash which is a good thing the way it has been piling up.

The project after that might be a sweater that’s been in time out for at least a year.  It needs to be a little bit larger.  This requires doing a new graph for the yoke.  It is a bit complex and I am a bit lazy.

If I keep the sweater in time out, I will probably do the Safe At Home blanket.  The goal is to work from stash, and if there’s anything I do have it is stash.

Yikes, stripes!

I bailed on the brioche class after the second lesson.  I can’t begin to guess what my problem is with this technique.  I am filing it with calculus as two things my brain refuses to grasp.

There is good news, though.  I finished my Birdsong sweater.  There will be a picture as soon as I get around to blocking it.

Things are tough for yarn companies these days.  Shows are being cancelled left and right.  I made an effort to help Must Stash a little by ordering this self stripey goodness.

That’s Exploding Rainbow, Pippi, The Doctor, and Lavender Apple Blossom.  The colors are really nice.  They are pretty as skeins but downright irresistible when you see swatches of the stripes.

I took some time out to stitch this.  The quote is from GR Mom of the Golden Ratio, if you are familiar with them.  It is silly, but why not?