a simple yarn

You’d think with a title like a simple yarn that there’d be more posts about knitting. And you’d think with the lack of knitted topics in recent posts that I haven’t picked up needles in yonks.

(By the way…I love the word ‘yonks’! It’s so fun to roll off the tongue! But what does it mean? Personally, I think it’s a combination of ‘donkeys years,’ meaning a very long time. Would any Irish friends care to comment on the word derivation of yonks?) Wow, I’m so easily side-tracked! Back to knitting…

One of my recently finished projects was to knit up something using all of my leftover scraps of wool from past felted projects. I’d been saving these bits and pieces for such a long time! I’d originally thought of slippers but then saw a very cute idea (in the One Skein book) for a rug. I adapted it using the I-cord technique. So, I made a very long ’snake’ of i-cord until I had no more wool, felted it, and then wound the shrunken snake around in an oval and stitched it, a la braided rug fashion. Didn’t have enough for a rug, but was pleased with the mat that’s now sitting on my kitchen table. The texture’s a little wonky, but I like the random colours. It really brightens up the place! And I feel good about having made something so cool and eco-friendly!