NOOOoooooo!

The cats believe my alpaca yarn is an animal they must hunt and carry off. I've saved my yarn a few times but the cats did some real damage a few days ago. I had put my gauntlets and yarn away in my knitting box, but didn't zip the lid. Alex found it later. The needles were not near the yarn any longer. T_T I frogged a few rows and replaced the needles. I haven't yet checked to see where I'm at in the pattern...dunno if I want to.

Oh no!

From the time of a lack of knowledge to the (ongoing) time of lack of money, acrylic yarn has been the staple of my small stash. When others felt my yarn or projects and said "It's a bit scratchy", I looked at them like they were crazy or way too picky. It seemed soft to me! Well, I bought 2 balls of Baby Alpaca yarn by Alpaca with a Twist the other day to make me some Dragon Scale Gauntlets. DOOM! I started the pattern, complained about the slippery-ness of the yarn on my new addi turbos, and finally got a few inches completed. Then I set it aside to return to a hat I was making for Alex's youngest. DOOM! (even though I already said that) The acrylic that I had previously knitted/crocheted up happily felt like sisal rope!! I told myself "Shame on you!" for wanting to make a hat from this stuff. T_T

I am convincing myself that I can skip the cheap acrylic from now on because the nicer acrylic costs about the same as cheaper good yarn. Ok, I know that I get alot more of the cheap yarn for $6 while I get a small bit of the nice yarn for $7, but I've got to convince my brain it's needed.

pwnd by NORO

What am I to do with my Kureyon? I'm attempting the Turtleneck Shrug from Scarf Style...again. Why does it keep coming out so frigging HUGE? ARG!

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