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February 14, 2005

First Spinster Valentine's Day

This is what evening knitting looks like at Chez Spinster:

What did I do on my Valentine's evening? Why, I started a new project. Must knit, must stay busy, must not cry. And nothing is more romantic than a trip to Michael's Crappy Encino Yarn Store.

You know, after surviving your first Thanksgiving/Christmas/New Year's season without your spouse, one would think Valentine's Day would be a breeze.

One would be wrong.

(Screw Valentine's Day. It's a made-up, overhyped, underwhelming little wedgie in the calendar of spinsterdom.)

So, Michael's.

The problem with my LYS selection -- and there are about seven GREAT little yarn boutiques in my general area -- is that they all close at 4 p.m. For those of us who must work to bring home the bacon and fry it up in a pan, we're outta luck during the week. Now I have learned that I better stock up on Saturdays because nothing is open by the time I return to the Valley after a long day of working for The Man. Nothing except Michael's, that is.

So I needed some yarn, and it was Valentine's Day, and I had to stay busy. Shopping and knitting, an avoidance method wet dream.

The new project is a girly-girl scarf for a coworker's granddaughter, Raven. The grandmother of Raven is Mary G., a very cool lady in my department, who is now the sole caretaker of 5-year-old Raven, which I think is pretty upstanding of coworker Mary G.

Non-Sequiter: Mary G. was in the Meeting Where I Got Yelled At (And Then I Cried). As you can imagine, I was horribly embarrassed by this incident. But Mary G. later confessed that she has also cried at work, and she's also been yelled at by the same horrible woman who yelled at me in the meeting, and that made me feel better and somewhat less pathetic. Nothing makes you feel more incompetent or retarded than crying at work. Except maybe a trip to Michael's yarn aisle on Valentine's night ..... moving on.

Since I was looking for a novelty yarn for a little 'un, I found my trip to Michael's far less frustrating than usual. I decided on a Patons chenille-eyelash twist in hot pink and white. It's a cute combo, but not soft enough for a scarf on its own. I'm combining it with a super-fuzzy, supersoft Paton's Allure in pale pink.

Should be a nice challenge, knitting with three different yarns at the same time! At home I tried to combine the fuzzy and the twist, but the twist was a stinkin' mess of tangles. I got lots of help from the cats:


Frankie investigates the pinkness.	Soba waited patiently for her chance to appraise the pink yarn.


Roy is so helpful when it comes to untangling the yarn.