Today it was 10°C outside. I more or less finished The Scarf That Time Forgot, but what’s the point? It’s not like I can wear it. It’s ten degrees out there. That is not Scarf Weather.

I say “more or less finished” because I didn’t weave in the ends yet. I know for a fact that I own five yarn needles, but I can only find one of them. The smallest one. TSTTF is made of super bulky yarn, and getting the end of this yarn through the eye of this particular yarn needle is just not something that’s gonna happen. So I’m going to have to buy another yarn needle tomorrow. I also copped out and didn’t make TSTTF as long as I had wanted to. I kept looking at the additional Bright & Lofty yarn I had gotten, knowing that it looked way too different from the other dye lot to be remotely sane. I wanted to not care about this, because it’s only my first garter stitch scarf and it’s ugly as sin anyway, but I just kept agonizing over it. I visited two Wal-Marts and two Zellers stores, trying to find yarn in the same dye lot. Then I called two other Wal-Marts and asked them if they had any. They didn’t. I tried to think of other places around that might sell crap yarn, but I couldn’t, except for dollar stores, which sell even crappier crap yarn and definitely wouldn’t have what I needed. Then I decided it would just have to be a short scarf. The rest of the Bright & Lofty is going into Stash Baby.

Stash Baby is going to be a stash someday, but he is young and small and not yet deserving of the name Stash. (He is also male, but I DON’T KNOW WHY. I just know that he is.) My knitting books live next to Stash Baby. There are kind of a lot of them, because it’s easier to read about knitting than it is to knit. It’s also easier to buy books than it is to do either of those things.

Anyway, TSTTF is longer than I am tall. This is not the same accomplishment for me that it would be for most people, as I’m only five feet tall. I wanted it to be about six feet long. Maybe I can add fringe? I know I decided not to ages ago, because I think fringe made out of that yarn would look horribly stupid, both because of its texture and because it would be from a different dye lot, but maybe…? Maybe I’m just considering the fringe again because I don’t really want to be finished working on the scarf. Maybe that’s also why I’m not looking very hard for those yarn needles (or maybe I’m not looking for them because my bedroom is a messy black hole of doom). I worked on TSTTF for four months; why not make it five? We had some good times together. We sat on my bed together, and sat on my bed, and sat on my bed, and spent a little while in the hospital, and sat on my bed some more, and once we went to a coffee shop. Yeah, man, good times. Exciting stuff.

Okay. So not really all that exciting. But sometimes it’s hard to let go.

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