![Confession Time with Katie:
Playing Mario Kart has made me a worse driver. As I drove to lunch with a friend, I wished for a flashing star so I could be invincible and drive through everything.
Also, we're eating bagels for lunch because throwing rules out windows is my new favorite hobby.
Speaking of hobbies, I started a Constellate Hat in the colorway, African Violets by LolaBean Yarn. The first Constellate took me nineteen months so surely i can beat that!
LOL. @marz1pan thought I was knitting a sock for someone with HUGE calves!
In writing news, I plan to send a short story before mid-December so join my Inner Circle Email List if you need a dopamine hit right about now.
I hope you have the Monday you need, Crew! I love you!!!!
[ID: Veggie rosemary bagel and tuna salad sesame seed bagel with a purple hat in progress.]
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Here are the directions I used for self-striping yarn.
I started with 50g of superwash bare wool sock yarn. I was pretty pleased with myself when I pulled this out of the microwave. I can follow directions like a good little yarnie….until I realized that the yarn between the bags must not have been wet enough because the dye did not travel up and there were white spots. 
So, I put kool aid in salsa bowls and added HOT water.
And then I was feeling better about things until I pulled it out to wind it and realized, WHAT THE DEVIL?!? Where did all this yellow come from?
So, I took a note from the pros and broke the yarn and removed the extra yellow…as much as I hated to, it was the right call.
I will be quite a bit more relaxed about yarn breaks in future. I shall imagine that they tell a story about a dyer that was overcome with delicious kool-aid fumes and lost track of what they were doing.
Ps. Happy Anniversary to my lovely parents!!!
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2013
OOOOOOOO! WOW! I’m eager to see how your yarn looks after you knit it. If you can bear to… it looks so beautiful wound!
Here’s hoping it looks ever better all knit up!
I’m extremely impressed with you right now. You’re not scared of ANYTHING.
Girl, you’re crazy. What is scarey about kool-aid, water and not very $$ yarn? But, thank you so much!!!
Kool-Aid does smell a little too good. That is so gorgeous, I wouldn’t have guessed what you were making, wow! I agree with previous comment, it is almost too pretty to knit.
Thanks!!!