17 Football Fields
Because, what could be more fun than coming home from work and then winding 9 skeins of yarn into balls?
Good thing I had this nifty new bag to put them in, huh?
That’s 6 skeins of Silky Wool–all of which needed to be wound before I could start swatching for the Harvest Cardigan. At 175 yards per skein, that’s 1050 yards. Then there’s the 3 skeins of Cascade 220 (total of 660 yards), all of which needed to be wound so that I could start the hats for Sophie and Jack.
That’s 1710 yards of yarn, all wound in about half an hour, between coming home from work and sitting down to dinner. That’s seventeen football fields’ worth of yarn. No wonder I’m so tired!
For heaven’s sake, whatever did we do before ballwinders and swifts? Yes, yes, I remember hanging my skeins on a chair and winding into a ball … a slow, painstaking process. Then, a few years ago, I bought a swift and a nosti, which certainly helped speed it up, but it would still take a while to make each ball. The ballwinder/swift combination is exactly that … swift.
Wouldn’t our great-grandmothers be jealous?
Oh, and did you notice the chart? I photocopied the Harvest cardigan’s pattern at work and then … I was so busy, you see … I drew in the lines for the shaping for my size AND color-coded it so that it would be easier to follow.
Yes, I know, I could have been working on Freelance-promotion stuff, if nothing else. (It’s not going to work if I don’t drum up some clients!) But, well … I had to have SOMETHING to knit tonight, since I finished my string bag and have decided to give up on the Cardi-Cozy, whose pattern is just too frustrating. (Sorry, Kay and Ann.) And, besides, I worked on some interview questions for Knitting Scholar, so I was productive, just, um, not for what they were paying me for (grin).
Okay, so it’s Friday night and I’m on vacation for the next week. Not sure what I’m going to do with it, but I plan to spend a lot of it with Chappy. I toyed with dragging Mom to the SOAR marketplace tomorrow, but really, would rather save what little $$ I can justify on spinning and knitting supplies for Rhinebeck next weekend.
Am I the only one who just can’t believe Rhinebeck is next weekend?
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Staycations are excellent.
I hear you about ballwinders and swifts!
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Hey Deb —-
I know you’re investigating freelance writing, but have you ever consider freelance photography?
It’s been mentioned between your sites that you should contact your local yarn shops since knitting/spinning are your loves, but what about approaching them from a photography perspective? You’ve posted awesome shots of yarns, WIPs and finished projects. I’m sure that you could do immense justice to the local shops if they let you loose for an hour or so since many shops don’t have the budget for “professional” photographers — and it shows. You could charge by the image and benefit both of you!
And, maybe they’ll hire you to do a monthly newsletter for their website. You do the photo and writing and they upload! Or they print and snail mail…..
Just wanted to let you know that from all I’ve read you’ve been ignoring the photography end of your skills in the freelance area, and I don’t think you should.
Judy
I stood up and the change of altitude gave me a HUGE brainstorm for you….
What if you took pix that they could then use as calendars? You’ve done calendars so you know what’s involved. The local shops could make their own calendars, with their own merchandise, their own storefronts, wide-shots of their own stores, their own regular sales, classes etc listed on the calendar part…….
Would that work???
Holy moly! That’s a lot of yarn winding! I must say that I do enjoy using my ball winder and swift but I think my arms would fall off after 17 football fields of yarn.
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