The Yarn Bites Back

Having beaten Rosy Fingered Dawn into submission by a combination of stern words and the "Paddington Bear Stare" all appears to be plain sailing. That's all it was - an appearance. It came time to change to "Blue Cloud", except "Blue Cloud" was still in the skein. I like to wind as I go. It gives me something else to do besides knit. It leaves the yarn relaxed until it's time to be wound up. It gives me a right headache. The skein went on the swift in a very docile manner. That didn't last long. It tangled, it pulled, it twisted, it stuck to itself. It was coaxed, cajoled, cursed; it was taken off the swift, it was put back on the swift; it was spoken to (in two languages) very sternly indeed; it was stared at with a basilisk glance. Talk about psychological warfare - I am exhausted but I have bent the yarn to my will. It was eventually wound into two balls. Two? Yes, because, to add insult to injury, there was a knot in it. Only in one of the two plys but there was a knot, nevertheless. Why do they do that? Don't get me started.

All I have to do now is knit Chart 6. Couldn't be simpler:



This is "Boreas, the North Wind: Horseshoe and Horse's Mane". You can see the horseshoe appearing between the stitch markers.

The whole nine yards:



Nine yards seems to just about cover it.

We are quite near the end now (only four more rounds of this chart and then we are on to the border - bet there'll be a lot of fun and games there) so it's about time I started on displacement activities. I saw this so I made this:



This is the back of the fox. Yarn is Colinette Silky Chic and Patons Eskimo, left over from Knitty's Vegan Fox.

Here's the front:



I didn't happen to have any white eyelash yarn, so have used something I did happen to have. I can't remember what it is and I'm too lazy to root out the ball band - it's some furry stuff, it's white-ish, what more do you want?

If I could find the bag of stuffing that I know is present in this house, the fox would be finished by now, but I can't, so it's not.

How many more little bits of trivia will I start before Rosy Fingered Dawn is finished? The book is open. (You can do a spread bet, if you want.)