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A Minor Yarn
Jun. 27th, 2008 08:09 pmI am feeling blue tonight. I wish I had a specific reason for it, but while there are things that I'm roiling over tonight those same things existed yesterday and I was quite upbeat then. And some of the things I'm roiling over are probably insignificant, which only makes me feel worse about the situation. I'm so inept I can't even mope right.
However, something good did happen to me and I'm going to make myself write it up.
Those of my readers with good memories for abjectly useless trivia will remember that I am working on some projects for our store art show. Early on I realized that one of my possible pieces, IRHC, was going to require a lot of green yarn. And not a lot of one color of green yarn, but a little bit of a lot of different colors of green yarn.
This presented me with a problem, because my yarn stash is virtually devoid of green yarn. I don't mind green as a color (unlike say, orange, which only looks good on citrus fruits and certain flowers), but I rarely wear it. Never have. Sometimes I'll run across a forest-green or sage-green garment that I like, but in the main greens do nothing for me, and if I'm not going to wear a color I have little use in crocheting with it. Until now.
So, I needed green yarn. The obvious solution to this was to make pitiful noises in the direction of my friend Pam, who both crochets and loves green. I figured she must have some odds and ends of random green that I could use. She agreed to look, and in the meantime I continued to brainstorm. And thus today when my path took me past a thrift store I naturally went into examine their craft supply section.
The actual yarn selection was as bad as I had feared, BUT--there was an untouched needlepoint kit on the shelf with NINE--count them, NINE different colors of green yarn in it. For only $1.99! There were a number of other colors of yarn as well, making it a bargain all around.
None of the papers inside the package state what the yarn is made of, but they refer to it as "Persian" and Persian is usually made of wool. I figure that sometime I'll do a match test on it to confirm, but to my hand it does seem like a wool. So, I have green yarn! Wool green yarn!
So you see, I'm not totally sunk in woe.
However, something good did happen to me and I'm going to make myself write it up.
Those of my readers with good memories for abjectly useless trivia will remember that I am working on some projects for our store art show. Early on I realized that one of my possible pieces, IRHC, was going to require a lot of green yarn. And not a lot of one color of green yarn, but a little bit of a lot of different colors of green yarn.
This presented me with a problem, because my yarn stash is virtually devoid of green yarn. I don't mind green as a color (unlike say, orange, which only looks good on citrus fruits and certain flowers), but I rarely wear it. Never have. Sometimes I'll run across a forest-green or sage-green garment that I like, but in the main greens do nothing for me, and if I'm not going to wear a color I have little use in crocheting with it. Until now.
So, I needed green yarn. The obvious solution to this was to make pitiful noises in the direction of my friend Pam, who both crochets and loves green. I figured she must have some odds and ends of random green that I could use. She agreed to look, and in the meantime I continued to brainstorm. And thus today when my path took me past a thrift store I naturally went into examine their craft supply section.
The actual yarn selection was as bad as I had feared, BUT--there was an untouched needlepoint kit on the shelf with NINE--count them, NINE different colors of green yarn in it. For only $1.99! There were a number of other colors of yarn as well, making it a bargain all around.
None of the papers inside the package state what the yarn is made of, but they refer to it as "Persian" and Persian is usually made of wool. I figure that sometime I'll do a match test on it to confirm, but to my hand it does seem like a wool. So, I have green yarn! Wool green yarn!
So you see, I'm not totally sunk in woe.
