You may remember the stinky, but beautiful baby blanket (seen here)...well, the Problem Ladies (Kay Gardiner & Ann Shayne of Mason Dixon Knitting) have solutions in the current Twist Collective with the stinky problem illustrated by Franklin Habit over at the Panopticon. If you don't care about smelly blankets or illustrations of them, but like knitting, check out all the sites anyhow...they're all amazing. p.s. Michaela, if the blanket is still stinky, you know what to do! p.p.s. If you don't care to find out how to get the smell out of newly washed alpaca- there's another Q&A regarding whether it's appropriate to knit during CLE (for all you knitting lawya's out there).
Sadly, my stinky blanket problem may have been solved (well, that's not the sad part), but I have plenty of current knitting problems (the sad part), like: how to get rid of the hole in the baby blanket I am now knitting (it did NOT get there because I had too much hard cider that night at Elza's party [and knitting at a party is not one of my knitting problems- just sayin]...it's garter stitch for crying out loud), and what to do when I need a knitting something and the yarn shop is closed.
She's a new yarn shop owner and I really like her...except she's super mellow (and likes wild color over more appropriate ones like gray and brown and blue) which must've led to her thinking she was allowed to close shop on Sundays AND Mondays. Knitters need knitting things when we need them, and crazy things happen when we can't get our knitting things (like I knit a mitered square last night knowing full well that it wouldn't work out. All because I ran out of yarn to complete the above mentioned holey blanket [actually I technically had enough, I just accidentally bought 3 blue and 1 green skeins instead of 2 blue and 2 green--yarn shopping apparently canNot be hurried] and didn't have a fat-eyed needle to sew in ends and had loaned out my Mason Dixon Knitting book #1 [containing the mitered square pattern for the next baby blanket on the list]...extra scandalous: I should have the pattern memorized because I've knit like 90 of the squares already [big blanket + baby blanket]). As if that weren't enough, Sunday is right next to Monday [that's 65 hours or something] and that's a good chunk of prime knitting time completely wasted. So, dear yarn shop owner, if you absolutely must close shop 2 days a week, could you spread them out so as not to encourage crazy, I really know better than that, desperate knitting? It might be your duty (you know, like a trustee to a beneficiary- yeah, pretty much like that).
Love, sara
