Nov 10, 2019
I’m hoping to have yarn spun for the market next weekend, so I’m setting the skeins I’ve already finished, using my cast iron teapots for weights.
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I’m hoping to have yarn spun for the market next weekend, so I’m setting the skeins I’ve already finished, using my cast iron teapots for weights.
Today was unexpectedly gorgeous (if worrying for mid-February), so I took to the balcony after work to ball my Mostly Void, Partially Stars merino/cashmere/stellina, in preparation for hopefully prepping the warp this weekend. The black warp is not quite solid, but I’m really pleased with it.
This week, I found out that a sweet, nice person I’ve known for the past few months is an islamophobic neocon who, among many, many hypocrisies and untruths, kept insisting that all Muslims “want to take over [Canada] and institute Sharia law.” For situational reasons, I had to be nice, but it’s important to note that this person argued very politely, and was completely convinced that their views were not hateful or in any way bigoted, and was somewhat bewildered that I disagreed. We like to think of racists as monsters, but most of them are ordinary, nonviolent people completely convinced that they are the true victims of persecution by minorities. Not everyone is screaming hate speech on street corners; most of them whisper it in private conversation.
As expected, I was pretty angry about this, and have been spending my evenings busily spinning the warp for my charity rainbow scarves that I hope to sell to support Syrian refugees. I may need to repeat this up to ten times (actual maths pending), but I’ve made decent progress, fuelled by political rage and a QI playlist.
The wool is a coarse but plush and springy fibre I was given a great deal of, and the dye is cheap, so this project will be of low cost to me other than the investiture of my time. I’m aiming to make ten scarves - let’s see how far I get.
I finished my rainbow entrelac scarf! When I started this project in the summer, I sort of expected it to be done quicker, but I’m desperately pleased with the results.
50g of alpaca, rescued from the moths and spun
No matter how hot it is, I will knit the rainbow.
Rainbow knitting update: I love everything.
I am so tired today, but it’s impossible to not be cheerful when knitting a rainbow.