Yarn Zombie

No fun food tales for today, although I did make a meatball soup yesterday for lunch (I threw some onions, chickpeas, and chopped broccoli in it, too). I’m gearing up to do a bunch of dyeing this weekend. I’ve been putting it off, but it needs to be done, and the weather isn’t getting any warmer outside.

I didn’t mention in my last post that besides all of the food, I have been a knitting machine lately. The weather is sucky for dyeing, but nice for knitting, and socks have been flying off the needles. There is the pair of YarnLove luscious Scarlett O’ Hara socks in the Darling colorway:

I really dig the color combo in this yarn. It’s very relaxing and zen.

Then, I knit with my much treasured skein of Katie‘s Lovesticks Colortopia yarn, which is amazing and full of win.

I cast on the magic number of stitches to get crazy, wavy pooling. Sometimes pooling makes me sad, but sometimes it is awesome, and this is definitely the latter. It makes the socks look like crazy patchwork socks. So much fun!

I’m also working on a pair of double stranded, uber-thick socks. I’m trying to use up some of my smaller skeins of yarn.

I took that pic yesterday afternoon, and am now on the gusset of the second sock. Size 5 needles = socks in about 2 seconds.

On a different topic, I also never mentioned that I bought a ton of old postcards when I was on vacation in Wisconsin. I like to send little thank you notes in with my orders from the shop, but hadn’t found any little notecards or anything I was really happy using that weren’t uber-expensive. Anyway, when I was poking around at some antique stores in Wisconsin, I had the idea to buy some old cheesy (and some not-so-cheesy) postcards and write my thank you notes on them. They weren’t too expensive, and I could buy a bunch of different cards, which makes my short attention span happy.

I bought gobs of them – some individually and some in bundles – and when we drove away from the shop I started really looking through them. Some of the postcards turned out to be neat for reasons I didn’t expect. This one, for instance:

…turns out to be a color photograph taken by Ansel Adams! I knew Adams had done some work in color, but I never knew that included fish portraiture.

Another interesting card is this one, which turns out to be almost 100 years old:

The back is the interesting part:

Finding these old cards appeals to the same part of me that loves looking at old slides and photos, and developing old film. Speaking of which, I took a bunch of photos on film when I was on vacation, and haven’t gotten around to developing any yet. Maybe that will be my reward for a few days’ worth of dyeing.