The Yarn Whisperer

That’s what I call him. My Yarn Whisperer. He is always, always willing to have fights with the yarn that I am just too tired or unmotivated to have. And he always wins. Always.

Last night was Knit Night. Since Matt had already participated in Snow Boarding Day as well as Afternoon Beer, he wasn’t really interested in Working. Turns out, fighting with this yarn was just the thing to keep him busy. When Courtney pulled it out of her bag, it was plain that she was just illustrating the cause of her day-long lament. As soon as she did, it was plain that Matt wanted to take charge of that yarn and show it who is boss. Of course, he was successful, but not right away.

In fact, Matt’s Yarn Whispering Night started with our Knit Night, went straight through Old Episodes of Project Runway and clear past Girlfriend’s Bedtime. I didn’t look at the clock, when he finally came to bed victorious, but he’s admitting to 3:00am, so I’m guessing it’s closer to 3:30 or 4:00.

While I’m on the subject, I thought I might as well add some of my recent work with yarn here. This is just part of the blanket that I’m slowly making for Matt. I’m only about half way through, based on the number of squares I think I will need for the size. I love getting him to participate in these things, and for this one he wrote a fantastic little bit of code that randomly gives me the next color. I love it, because random usually turns out prettier than my choices.

And these are my new socks! The yarn is beautiful (my Christmas gift from Ted & Erin!) with really subtle color changes, and I’m really happy about how it’s turning out. I had to change the pattern, since it was written for top-down. My position is that toe-up is better, simply because you can knit until you are out of yarn and you’re in control of how tall the sock are!