Last week I was in a knitting funk, feeling grumbly and snarfy because of the fiasco at the Loopy Ewe. Did you get any?
Wollmeise yarn, that is.
I had badly wanted to try out the newest and greatest superlative yarn and my favorite online shop was going to get a shipment. :-)
Tammy and I were on the ball...first she was on the watch for it, then me. We were constantly on guard, patiently waiting for it to be ready for sale and then we'd grab a couple of skeins.
But after three days of diligent watching, they sold out in a few minutes before we ever got up in the morning. Sniff, sniff.
Those on the East Coast
and those who stayed up ALL NIGHT got some. Me? None.
Here's the part I should be ashamed about:
That goofy little girl inside me wanted to take over; she kept yelling, "It's not FAIR"!!!! As I went through the day, calmly educating my children and keeping our home, she kept bringing the situation to mind and it was getting more sad and pitiful as the days following the fiasco went on. I was dwelling on it like a little baby: poooor me. I bet Wollmeise isn't as great as everyone reports, anyway! Hmph! Why should THEY get it all???!!
Can you picture it? Quite a state of mind over a silly bit of wool.
I finally moved on, due to an exciting trip up to coast to SF to visit wonderful family. I forgot all about the sad events and embraced the adventure in front of us. (More about said trip later today).
As the weekend progressed and thoughts of Wollmeise yarn stayed far away from me, I was able to work on several projects and we had such fun doing other things. Yesterday, as we walked to Delores Park in the City, ambling along,.....SERENDIPITY HIT!!!
There was a yarn store, a great yarn store, appearing across the street:
Can you even believe it? Right there! In all of this huge city, I walk blithely down the street and run into this great yarn store. They had koigu, Manos, every socks yarn under the sun and every other yarn too (except Wollmeise because NOBODY carries it...out of stock everywhere) and I scored:
Now I feel better....
Each of my two skeins of this stuff might make a nice baby gift so I thought I'd make a boy scheme and a girl one. This is the boy color scheme:
It's a darkish red and a bright orange. I washed the yarn in warm soapy water and rinsed. Then I put two pots on my stove and put several packages of Kool-Aid in each with lots of warm water.
I stuck the yarn into both, more in the red and then that top part between pots kept needing more color, so I'd move it into one and then the other. The heat was on, until almost boiling. The kool-aid disappeared from the water and attached itself to the yarn. The water was pretty clear when i took the yarn out. 
And here it is drying on the front porch. Kool-Aid . Nice.
