basimah knits… and spins… and maybe complains about things a little…

… or something to that effect.

i ripped apart a sweater that i had from back in like high school, it was ill-fitting back then, so there was really no hope for it now.  so after quite some time spent ripping out seams and trying not to cut the crap out of useable strands, this is what i’m left with.

the fine folks over at knittychat confirmed my suspicion that i can get away with soaking the yarn with some wool wash then beating it upon a counter or table (not sure what that does, but hey, can’t be anything but fun, right?).

not sure what the yarn will become once it’s been soaked and smacked, but it’s soft and has colorful tweedy flecks sprinkled all over.  i’ll have to double check the yardage, but maybe a lacey shawl? socks? doubled to make luxury mittens?

click the pic to see full-size.  mom painted me up good, and it was her first time ever doing anything with henna ever!  she did this for my cousin’s wedding on saturday, but the color just finally ripened all the way yesterday/today.  it looks like there’s hope for me dragging mom into my weirdo henna painting world afterall!

Dear Relatives,

I know you are trying to be nice in buying a cellular phone for an old person, however, old people do not need fancy camera phones with all sorts of mp3 and internet capabilities when said old people can not even put a dvd in the player (which you purchased, by the way) without assistance.  In the event that you should decide that old people really DO need said cellphones, please do not be a jerk and completely volunteer me to be in charge of technical support.  I do not enjoy teaching old people to do stuff they don’t need to know how to do because they will never leave their phone on anyway because apparently once a person becomes old, they believe that everything costs them money somehow, and making a call then turning the phone off so no one can call them back will save their old people funds for the future.  to summarize, stop it with the trying to be captain awesome in order to gain favor with the old person, and maybe think about those of us who didn’t get the opportunity to flee this city and get as far away from the old person as possible.

thank you in advance for your use of common sense.

betsy.

not much.  i had a birthday a couple weeks ago (25… yikes!).  got my hair cut (super awesome!).  finished the neverending hot pink hearts shawl (kinda small).  debated lots of purchases (no money for yarn-buying).  bought some yarn  ($1 a ball).  used that yarn to work on some scarves for the sale in october (kinda boring).  learned how to make watermelon pickles (a lot of work).  then made and taste-tested said pickles (delicious!).

so, speaking of the sale in october, do people still like novelty scarves?  not like cheezy all fun-fur ones, but multi-texture, multi-tone designer-looking scarves.  i’m hoping they do, cuz i kinda went crazy with the single balls of random yarns and i can’t imagine what else i can do with them.