Yarn Lust

Current Obsession:

I think I have a problem. Well I'm not sure it's a real problem. But I do have an obsession that I can't quite seem to shake. I fear it's beginning to interfere with my ability to function normally. Can't sleep must have yarn... or clown will eat me...

I've noticed since I started knitting that I have a color addiction. I love vibrant colorways. I love variegated yarns that burst to life  in their combinations. The colors look to me what I imagine music would look like if you could see it. When I used to sing (years ago) in a choir it was almost like we were surrounded in a rainbow of color. Like the air turned into a floaty liquid and the colors just blended and swirled around us. It was like the air took on more weight and I was free to fly around in it because I was lighter than the air. It was the ultimate peacefulness.

That is what yarn is like, it's like if you could squish music into a string. It's the universe. The everything. The Joy.

So when I knit I get to knit up music, joy and the everything. :D It's like I can fly. All by myself with just my spirit soaring free. The ultimate peacefulness.

I think I may be a Color Junky. I've yet to complete anything that was just one color. It looks lovely in the store sitting among other colors of yarn. It's full of hope and promise. It could grow up to be anything! :D

But when I get it home and start to knit with it it's so monotone and I just can't take more than a few rows. I feel like a bad yarn owner. Odd I know. In all fairness I never said this was the  journal of a sane knitting otter though. :P

So far the black loopy mohair is the most I've managed with a solid color. I think that is because I have the other yarn, the lovely variegated purple/green/brown colors to mix with it.

I may have to learn Intarsia at this rate if I plan on using solid colors. o.0

The weird thing is that some patterns and stitch's just look much nicer or show off the stitch with a solid color. I hope I can work with solids someday. I think I will.  It may take a while to complete a project using one color, but I think I can manage it. I'll just have to have an interesting stitch. I think I might be able to swing it with cables. Although if the yarn was in very similar shades of the same color so that shadows and light shone through that would be okay wouldn't it. I mean I don't HAVE to use one solid monotone color just yet do I?

I will someday. No need to rush it though.

On a funny note the colors I choose for my clothing is very sedate and other than socks I stick with Blacks, Salmon, Coral, Navy Blue and if I'm feeling frisky a few other shades of blue and maybe a dark purple. *L* Socks are my big chance to let loose and have fun. So I can be wearing a business suit and off the wall socks. (Well I do fun undies too, but as this is a public blog I don't think I want to discuss my undies. :P)

So anyway back to my obsession. There is a yarn that I saw in a magazine and again online. It's in shades of teal, green & yellow. Considering I wouldn't look twice at a garment in yellow and I don't own anything green this seems odd, but whatever. We love what we love. I must have it. I don't know what brand it is or anything. All I know is that it's being used in the print ads and on the welcome page of Loop . I MUST HAVE THIS YARN. o.0

I dreamed about it last night. I dreamed there was yarn all around me and one skein of this lovely yummy stuff. I woke up to reach for it with a cat in my face staring at me. She's funny like that. Thinks licking my nose in my sleep is cute. FurFreak.

I went to the Loop site today. I can't take it anymore. I NEED this yarn. I don't just want it. I NEED it. Knitting with it would be like flying! :D (Not plane flying but bird or superman flying. :P)

There are several similar yarns like this. I think the one yarn that I want is out of stock though. I'm not sure though. I'll have to keep checking back.

I said I wouldn't buy yarn this week. So far I have been good. I haven't purchased yarn since Saturday. So maybe I'll order it Sunday if I find it and it's in stock.

This goes beyond love. Beyond Lust. I must make it mine.

Comments

[Norma]

It's funny how that goes with color. I'm a solids girl (well, not exactly solids - imperfect solids with some mottling or tweediness are my favorites) myself. I love looking at the vibrant colors, but not knitting them, so much. It seems that the majority of knitters, though, love the bright variegateds.

[Cookie]

Can you e-mail them and find out what it is and if they can mail you some? Or see if your local guy can hook you up?

It could be worse, ya know. You could be lusting after cars or much younger men or wanting to live on chocolate or something.

No, we will not be looking too closely at that one. :p

* waves @ Norma *

How's the dog?

[Dave Daniels]

Yarn Lust? How about Yarn Ho? Just teasing. Wish they had a term like that for guys, though.
And there is NOTHING wrong with color. It's the LACK of color that is a crime. Or should be. There are only two things white in my home: the toilet and the bath tub. MUST HAVE COLOR!
Beautiful colors make the eyes happy just like beautiful scents make the nose happy, good tastes for the tongue, etc.