The Curse Part 2

 

I hate when the Wolf Pup is sitting empty. It takes up a big chunk of my living area so to justify it, I need to be using it but I'm not. The scarf that was on it is no more. I hated it, The Mister hated it so it's history. 

I still wanted to make him a scarf so I went stash diving for some wild and crazy sock yarn. The Mister likes wild and crazy and this hand painted merino should have done it but.....

....it wasn't enough so I added in stripes of color using some sock yarn that had been in the stash for years. Years. Like more than twenty. Maybe thirty. It all looked great while I was winding the warp until I noticed that this old sock yarn was coming apart. It was fraying and breaking. You can't weave with that, so off it all came. It was the third time this week I had tried and failed to get something else going on the loom. At this point there were some very big emotions going on. 

On my fourth attempt at stash diving, I spied this. It's my leftovers from the Audun throw. These were the ugly colors that didn't make the cut so.....

....I took those little balls of ugly acrylic and starting mindlessly winding them. I didn't even care what came of this project. I just needed to be doing something. The next morning I decided I didn't want a scarf that looked like something an 8th grader made in Home Ec class so off it went. 

Finally, for my 5th attempt in a week,  I've decided to go back to what I know. I made this towel ages ago but never liked the colors and really wanted to try the plaid modification that you see behind it in the basket. 

So I pulled out some spring colors and started doing the math to make it fit my smaller loom. Wish me luck. I'm going to need it.