Tattva1 knits

Skeined, washed, and dried.

So pretty. Such a bear on size 9 (5.5mm) needles!

In an effort to reskein two cakes of yarn for washing, I have had the following happen.

1. The swift came unlocked and the half wound skein fell off onto the table.
2. The second cake flew off the ballwinder onto the floor.

To rid myself of the first problem, I came up with a nice little solution.

Yarn is Grignasco MerinoSilk

That’s probably the smartest thing I’ve done all week.  The dumbest?  Well, no one’s died or fallen off the balcony, so I’m going to go with winding that second cake onto the ball winder with no added tension cutting myself with some aluminum foil.   (The second smartest thing was pulling up a chair to the swift.  My back thanks me.)

Nothing genius was required to fix the second problem, I just rewound the cake on the winder with some tension.  I think that makes 4 times I rewound these two cakes?

And it’s really beautiful.

Oh the turquoise!

Ooh, a shot of electric green!

All the colors together equals one thing: Manos Silk blend.  

All hail Turtlegirl, who can choose yarn like nobody’s business.  I’m so happy I was able to help you get to the right guys to get your Vista working again.

Now if you’ll pardon me, I’ve got to find the perfect pattern for this.

I’ve been complaining a lot this month, but what I really think is happening is a karmic kind of balance.  Sure, there’s been some bad, but there’s been some really good stuff too.

I’m one of those people who never win anything, so when I win two contests in a row I really feel lucky.  The first one was Sheri’s September Loot. 

Two highly-coveted skeins of sock yarn!

Yarntini Variegated in Pumpkin Spice – destined to be Monkeys for my sister.

Wollmeise Superwash Sockenwolle in Raku-Regenbogen. I had a hard time getting all the colors in this colorway in the picture. Basically, it’s a rainbow but all the colors are muted and fall-like. I don’t normally gravitate to these colors when shopping, but I love them here!

Thanks, Sheri!

The second contest I won was Knitnzu’s Belated Blogiversary. I won more yarn and a special extra something….

Artful Yarns: Shakespeare. I haven’t done any research on it yet, but I think it’s a bulky single ply. I’m trying to decide if it’ll be soft enough for a new hat for Ladybug. What do you think, Lisa?

And the little something extra is this too cute DPN case! We have a red and white polka-dot obsession going on at the house right now because of Ladybug’s Minnie Mouse costume. I’ve already got my size 1’s in there now.  Thanks Lisa, and I wish you many more happy blogiversaries!

Wow, I should win Sheri’s contest more often.  Hello everyone!  Thanks for stopping by!

Ok, now, since my head is full of totally unbloggable stuff, here are some yarny pictures.

These are the fall-appropriate Koigu KPPPM colors I picked up last month.

And here they are close up.

I have no plans for them as yet.  Well, except the cuddling.  It was fun pulling them all out of their bag to cuddle and take pictures.

I haven’t felt a reason to rush to get pictures of my Koigu purchases from last month.  So instead of photographing them all at the same time, I’ll do it piecemeal.

These first two skeins are single loners that were on sale.  They’ll probably become toddler socks.

Koigu P330, labeled by the store as Yellow Squash.  This picture is probably the easiest yarn photo I have ever taken!

Koigu P516, labeled as Forest Shadows.  Yeah, I see that fuzzy ply right there. 

And finally, for you and your toddler’s amusement, I present a link to the video that gave Anna the giggles over and over again for almost 20 minutes:  Mission Sqwerlpossible!