Jennyarn

I finished knitting a skirt from this nice pattern. I need to get hold of some elastic to sew in, forming a hem, for the waist. Or is a hem only at the lower border of a skirt?

Sewing has never taken much interest in me. Yet my fear of hems may be due to hemispheric imbalance of the brain. Ahem.

How great to find not only a free pattern, not only a skirt pattern, but one knit circularly and using lite Lopi yarn. Not that using lite Lopi is imperative. However, I like the stuff. And I had some spare skeins handy.

I didn’t hem and haw over it. Mayhem did not ensue. Still, I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t choose these colors given all choices. They are just what I happened to have enough of, left over from other projects. So be it.

My version is probably the antithesis of sexy. So be it.

If Samantha decides the skirt is really a cat bed, so be it.

Speaking of, er, cats - did you know that Ernest Hemingway was crazy about them? If I wasn’t able to appreciate his writing, I can anyway appreciate him for his love of felines.

Okay, so the skein of Paton’s Rumor felt soft to me in the store. Yes, it is part alpaca. More (or less) than that, it is acrylic. And it was the acrylic I felt as I knitted with it. Now I realize what the aversion to acrylic yarn is about. Somewhere along the way, have I become a yarn snob? When I first looked for yarn, I didn’t know better: I didn’t go to yarn stores as such. I was drawn to Lion Brand Homespun, and the nice colors it’s available in.

Paton’s Rumor, like Lion Brand Homespun, does have its good qualities. Doesn’t it? One thing going for acrylic is its durability. I have one favorite sweater that has lasted years. It is in fine shape. My sister found it at Goodwill so I have no idea how old it is. It is acrylic. It has stood up swimmingly through countless washer and dryer trips too.

The Paton’s Rumor yarn is actually pretty. Maybe I can turn it into a sweater then reserve my opinion until I know what it’s like in the wearing.