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May 25, 2006
I've found the answer to all my problems.
Okay, maybe just one problem.
Remember Alice, the camel-hair yarn? I brought her back home with me from Athens, and conferred with her yesterday about what she wants to be. I've decided to forego the Phildar pullover in favour of something else, something far more unique and elegant which will change my life and maybe even make me look stylish and not like a slob all got up in a sweater too fancy for me. But in the meantime I have to wind the skeins into balls which, because I have no swift (and even though I always carefully drape my skeins around the back of a chair first), always results in my having to deal with an unbelievably frustrating tangle. Like this one.
Well. This morning as I gazed at yet another several hours worth of untangling before me, I puzzled. And I pondered. And I came up with a solution so dazzling in its simplicity that I can scarcely believe I never thought of it before.
Two chairs.
(cue chorus of angels, if only to drown out the sound of all my knitty pals slapping their foreheads, rolling their eyes and saying "duh!", which I guess is better than pounding their knees Sammy Maudlin style and howling with derisive laughter)
I feel smart. I feel ready to perform rocket surgery almost. I feel like breaking out the tequila and orange juice in celebration, but I think I'll wait until after noon for that.
I received a lovely package in the mail yesterday from Bonnie, a cute little bag and some stitch markers bearing a much-needed message:
That's a crappy photo but here's a detail:
focus, create, breathe, stitch
I've been spending a few hours every day photographing things to list in my etsy shop, and now have some t-shirts and new buttons up, including more of these buttons that I was giving away at MDS$W.
Still no elevator shirts, but I promise I'll make those in August when I get back to the studio. I've got a bunch of older lithos to put up, as well as some sweet little notebooks and lots more buttons, I'm just taking my sweet-ass time to do it, that's all.
Posted by jodi at May 25, 2006 10:57 AM | categories: projects
Comments
Lovely schwag that.
Posted by: Sandy at May 25, 2006 01:53 PM
I usually turn a chair over and use the legs as a swift. Also, if you unscrew the finial, a lampshade makes a fab swift for skeins that are narrower in diameter.
"Beer: the cause of, and solution to, all my problems." - Homer Simpson
Posted by: liz at May 25, 2006 02:55 PM
The simplest solutions are usually the best. I remember being dumbstruck at the brilliance of seeing a blogger using a rubbermaid tub to wash and block a sweater (as opposed to the tub or the sink). Total d'oh moment.
Posted by: Jenna at May 25, 2006 03:23 PM
Glad you like the stitch markers, and saw your comment on my blog about needing to start something complicated so as to have a reason to use them.
I actually made them for you thinking you'd probably never use them as intended...you seem like the kind of gal that either just reads her fabric or makes a marker out of extra yarn. Hence zee little clips. So you can hang them somewhere else ;-)
Now please excuse me...I must go buy badges!
Posted by: bonnie at May 25, 2006 03:58 PM
love the stuff in your store, I will have to save up!
I turn a chair upside down to wind skeins, I don't have a ball winder though and I have 2 cats, a dog and a toddler wandering about so I have to keep it contained!
Posted by: Anna at May 25, 2006 05:45 PM
Sock Monkey Love is great!!!
Posted by: Erin at May 26, 2006 10:41 AM
Duh? You're not the only one...thanks for the tip(s). I have chairs that are not sittable, but being a packrat, I kept thinking they would be useful for something and now I know what 'cuz I don't have a niddy noddy either. Now if only I had a ball winder...
Posted by: Beverly at May 27, 2006 12:51 PM