Thanks to everyone who posted helpful comments this weekend--I am pretty confident that my spam filter isn't weeding out any good comments but it is definitely keeping out all the bad. Yay!
I have been really busy lately and this past weekend was no exception. But miraculously, I did find some time to laze around the house, watch some 30 Rock and finally dig out some of my stash to post up on Ravelry. Maybe that will give me some ideas about what to make with all this stuff, I thought. I have a small apartment with not a lot of storage space, so it's a big weight on my shoulders and I feel like I should be knitting from the stash more than I do.* But when I finally catalogued the yarn I have (most of it, at least), I realized that I don't have that much after all. But the biggest weight on my mind is definitely the aboved photographed yarn. The Elizabeth Lavold Silky Tweed. Isn't it lovely?
I ordered this yarn *thinking* I was ordering Silky WOOL, the yarn that I used to make a leaf lace shawl a year or two ago. I loved the yarn and loved the shawl even more so I ordered some more to make for other friends that have been really kind to me while I was in Japan. But silly me, I didn't read very closely. I didn't know there were different lines of "silky" yarns and was surprised to get something with a different gauge and a totally different feel from what I was expecting. It has been sitting, untouched, in my closet ever since.
What is a girl to do? It really is lovely yarn, that is not the issue. But I have only three skeins of each color (just one shy of a Ms. Marigold!) so I'm not quite sure what to use it for. I'm sure the tweed will not suit the lace patterns I had in mind anyway. The thing that kills me the most is that my dear mother went out of her way to order and ship this great yarn to me. I don't mean by posting this that it went underappreciated. In fact, avoiding letting her in on the disappointment is part of the reason this yarn hasn't been mentioned in all the time it's sat here (certainly at least a year). Mum, you want it back? Keeping my eye on the mail for that Sugar 'n Creme you sent last week, too. Thanks!
Now what am I going to do with all this tweed?
*I have been better this year and haven't bought any yarn since going home for Thanksgiving 2006.
