OK, if you are going to spend time with me...get ready to go yarn shopping, talk cables, swoon over skeins, chat about stash,ponder patterns...I am a Knitter with a capital K. I dream in yarn. My idea of a good day is playing in a wonderful yarn shop, gathering gorgeous skeins and designing my next project, and the project after that, and after that...
Yes, I am a yarn-a-holic, thank goodness! I cannot imagine my world without yarn. Every room in my house has yarn, lovingly arranged as I arrange vases of flowers with careful attention to color that work with the design 0f the room. I love to play with yarn and the good news is...I am not alone!
Admit it...you have bags of yarn under the bed. There is yarn in the trunk of your car, your basement, your attic, your closets...under your bathroom sink, in the freezer!?? Well maybe just the angora and mohair are in the freezer.
There are knitters who love to knit, getting lost in the stitches, watching the fabric grow beneath their fingers, falling into the world of a cable while whatever else that has gone on that day fades away. I LOVE to knit! I have been known to knit through a day without remembering to eat or to run home form the office to finish a sleeve. There are also knitters who have a passion for yarn, I will make the argument that not all knitters are yarn lovers. I have seen people knit on "twine" and be happy. As much as I love to knit, need to knit, I am a yarn snob. There now the world knows. The yarn matters! Not just to inspire, but also to define. An Aran sweater can be knit in any "basic"...but there IS a difference. You can knit in a basic worsted and end up with a nice sweater, or you can knit in a yummy blend or a wool spun with a "hand" that will make you grab your needles and knit an heirloom. I have been known to stop people in a shop and say "do you really want to knit with that?"
If I had not spent the amount of time in yarn shops that I have in my life then I might think that I could possibly have some issues-afterall skeins of yarn have actually talked to me. I have been known to walk around a shop holding three or four skeins just to have them with me. Sometimes it is the color, sometimes the texture, sometimes just the yummies of it. IF you love yarn you are nodding your head about this passion, and I know that I am NOT alone. Knitters may smile as they pick their yarn for their next project. Yarnies,however, will sit on the floor of a shop with you and play with the skeins!
Skeins of yarn adorn my home and my world. I have skeins that I know will never get knit-they are too beautiful to disturb. I have bought just one skein of a gorgeous handpaint just to pop it into a basket. I will keep a skein on my bedside so I can dream what to knit from it.
Somehow in all the yarn that surrounds me I never have the right match for the design I want to work on next...so I better go yarn shopping! Meet you at the yarn shop...
