The funneh is missing in action at chez yarn.
At least we have yarn, though. I bought some new-to-me yarn from a couple of Ravelers last week: Bugga.
The dusty coloring reminds me of Dream in Color's yarn. In fact, the top skein, Orchid Mantis, is near identical to a skein I have of Smooshy in the Butter Peeps colorway.
The Bugga, being 20% cashmere, is deadly soft. It is going to make some fabulous scarves.
So where the heck is the funneh? Well, a weekful of documentaries on American industry, and my continued ignorance of the BP situation, have been leaching all of my joy. I'm back to morose seriousness as I come to terms with some conflicting beliefs.
The theme this month can be summed up in dialogue from Cold Mountain (the movie, I never read the book). Renee Zellweger's character, Ruby, is up to her eyeballs in the hellhole of a life of a woman in a rural mountain town during the Civil War:
"They call this war a cloud over the land. But they made the …
At least we have yarn, though. I bought some new-to-me yarn from a couple of Ravelers last week: Bugga.
The dusty coloring reminds me of Dream in Color's yarn. In fact, the top skein, Orchid Mantis, is near identical to a skein I have of Smooshy in the Butter Peeps colorway.
The Bugga, being 20% cashmere, is deadly soft. It is going to make some fabulous scarves.
So where the heck is the funneh? Well, a weekful of documentaries on American industry, and my continued ignorance of the BP situation, have been leaching all of my joy. I'm back to morose seriousness as I come to terms with some conflicting beliefs.
The theme this month can be summed up in dialogue from Cold Mountain (the movie, I never read the book). Renee Zellweger's character, Ruby, is up to her eyeballs in the hellhole of a life of a woman in a rural mountain town during the Civil War:
"They call this war a cloud over the land. But they made the …