Kiss My Knits!

I’m very clumsy with drinks, and have ruined several (okay, five) keyboards by inadvertently spilling water in them. Well, over Thanksgiving, I managed to spill milk on Tyrathia’s scarf and the yarn it was being knit with. Umm… sorry, . It seemed okay afterward and I put it aside, but when I went to knit on it today (I’m trying to sneak in a few rows on side projects here and there between hats) the yarn was stiff in spots. It’s 100% bamboo (I think) so it’s definitely not supposed to be crusty. Attempting to knit a row or two like that made me believe that it would probably affect the final product more than I first thought.

I wound the remaining un-knitted yarn into a large hank and rinsed it and the half-finished scarf in cold water in the kitchen sink. Man, that dye is NOT fast. Two rinses and it still ran blue. Good to know for future reference. However, a little light swishing and it seemed to have gotten rid of the milk, as far as I was able to tell while it was wet.

It’s drying over the shower rod now. And I’m newly excited about this project. Having it wet and being able to drape it against my hand and see roughly how it looked stretched and blocked made me realize just how pretty this pattern is. Tyrathia’s going to have a very nice scarf when it’s finally finished. Which may be 2020 by this rate, but hey – it’ll be worth it!

I got little gifts for some DR colleagues, kind of a “thank you for all your hard work” and had been feeling bad about not mailing it before now. Today I hear that one of those people had a house fire and is obviously out of their home. Glad I didn’t mail it yet. I’ve written them to offer whatever help that I can.

Makes me very grateful for what I’ve got, that’s for sure.