We interrupt this knitting blog (what, you mean there’s a knitting blog here? What?) to bring you pictures of flooding in Fredericton. If you have ever wanted to know what the parking lot of the library looks like when it is underwater, I don’t know what kind of weirdo you are, but boy howdy, have you ever come to the right place.

On Sunday I went to the felted clogs workshop at Singer and I think I totally managed to fail something I wasn’t being graded on. We were using two strands of Patons Classic Merino Wool and everybody else was making things that looked like G I A N T slippers (because they weren’t felted yet, obviously) and I managed to knit… wait for it… six rows. In four hours. My two strands of yarn kept winding around each other really badly, so I would knit a couple of stitches, then untwist, then knit a couple of stitches, then untwist. I think I may have said something about how I would enjoy my yarn more if it were on fire, but I do tend to say that fairly often. I said that about the Shawl of Doom the last time I worked on it, too.

I have been Googling increasingly desperate terms such as “double stranded knitting oh my god help!” and so far I still don’t know what I was doing to make the two strands of yarn tangle like that. We tried winding one ball of yarn into a centre-pull ball and putting the other one in a plastic bag and they still tangled. I think I was the only person there who holds her yarn in her left hand while she knits, if that has anything to do with it. If anyone knows what the hell is wrong that made my yarn twist so badly, puh-leeze let me know so I can fix it and and actually knit the damn slippers. I will be eternally grateful and love you forever, of course. I may even give you chocolate.

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