I hope everyone’s having a good weekend, I know mine has been busy! I worked like crazy yesterday, cleaning the house, mowing the lawn and dyeing some yarn. It wasn’t all work though, I got to relax a bit, read a book (what a concept!) and go out to my favorite microbrewery with my roommate for dinner. Nothing like sitting outside on a beautiful evening, drinking some tasty Oatmeal Stout and people watching. I’m looking forward to my lack of plans today, and hoping to get in some knitting on a few projects.
I’m still working away on the first Gentleman’s Lozenge Sock, and am almost to the heel flap. The yarn is still wonderful, and I continue to enjoy knitting every stitch with it. Funny story about that too…see in the last post I said the yarn smelled really good, and Anne replied to say that she had washed it with patchouli wool wash. My Mom commented later that evening how nice the yarn smelled, and I said, “well I don’t think it’s a very good patchouli scent, because shouldn’t it smell more like pot if it’s patchouli?” I make comments like this fairly often, and my family always gets quite a hoot out of it. Well I guess patchouli isn’t pot…but for some reason I associated it as such. Probably because I knew hippies used patchouli, and I must have equated it with pot. Little did I know that they used patchouli to cover up the smell of the other substance! Anyway, that was my dork moment of the week. I hope you get a little amusement out of it like my parents did ;)
I also have some delicious new yarn, that arrived on my doorstep on Friday afternoon. It’s some handspun BFL from Georgia of Yarn Pirate, in her Buccaneer colorway. Isn’t it gorgeous!? It’s so soft, and has the trademark squishy-ness of handspun yarn. And the colors are definitely “manly”, so thanks Georgia! It’s always wonderful to receive a generous gift from a fellow yarnie :)
She also included a tape measure from Church Mouse Yarns, a little yarn store on Bainbridge Island, which is located in the Puget Sound. I was on that same island a few years ago, but sadly wasn’t a knitter at the time, because I would have been all over that store. It’s also funny, because some of my friends have called me Church Mouse for years now (*I’m short and my last name is Church. Enough said.), so I think it’s quite apropos that I now have a Church Mouse Yarns tape measure.
I have the perfect pattern in mind for the handspun too, one which has been beautifully executed, both here and here. I’ve already swatched (and ripped that swatch out, since I think I’ll be down to the wire on this one), and am raring to go. This afternoon will be the perfect time to try and overcome my crochet dyslexia and cast on.
Have a great Sunday everyone!
Oh, pretty yarn! Ack, patchouli - I am so allergic to it! I can’t tell you how much that particular wool wash frustrates me. :( Hee hee - but it IS an incensey smell much associated with pot smoking.
Great pattern choice! Can’t wait to see the yarn all knit up. :) It’s such a pretty colorway.
Lovely handspun there!! The hat will look awesome knitted with it! I recently went to Seattle and visited Churchmouse Yarns, it is an awesome place. I just went around and around looking at yarns I’ve only heard about and seen online.
Well you’re just going to have to come back out this way sometime and we’ll go on a yarn crawl to Churchmouse Yarn & Tea!
Churchmouse Yarns and Teas has got to be one of my favorite yarn shops. I can’t say I’m local to Bainbridge, but close enough to drive there and spend more than I ever intended to on yarn. My husband is a good sport about that. He will even do the driving, so I can knit in the passenger seat. (It’s safer than knitting in the driver’s seat, you know)
Wow, gorgeous colors! I equate pathouli and pot too, most likely from the stoner kids in high school. Still, I love the smell.
Well am I the odd one (yup, but so are you!)? Because for me patchouli doesn’t equal pot! I like some of the lighter versions of it, but am just tired of the heavier ones. What does smell like pot (to me and to my neighbors who eyed me up pretty suspiciously)? Burning sage. The BFL is lovely, it’ll be great in that hat pattern! I’ll probably make one for Dulaan next year, or maybe for gifts too. Glad you got a totemic tape measure! So were knitting while you were drinking that oatmeal stout (yum!) and people watching?
The lavendar in your photo is as beautiful as the yarn…oh to have a garden once again! All I have right now is rocks, and sand…someday I’ll be able to dig in the dirt again. Patchouli and pot…I’m still chuckling over that one! Went ot wikipedia and read about patchouli. Patchouli is an essential oil extracted from the patchouli plant. It was used heavily by hippies in the 60’s and 70’s. They would burn patchouli incense to cover up the marijuana smell…which is probably why you thought they were one and the same. Love ya~
i can’t wait to see the hat!! i’m so glad you like the yarn. yay!
Now I want to zeebee too!
My favorite yarn store in the world, hands down, is Churchmouse Yarns and Teas. It’s worth a trip to the Puget Sound just to visit that store. I’m not exaggerating. Plus, there’s all that great coffee on every corner and I know how you can appreciate that, Adam!
beautiful photo of the yarn in the tree.
I totally associate patchouli with pot too!!! must be those college days…..