Yarning

September 24, 2010

I think my husband has coined a new knitting term. Yesterday morning, soon after I woke up I began to wind up some yarn that I had been sorting through the night before. Later on while my husband and I were on our morning walk, I complained that I wished I had more time for a longer walk.

My husband remarked, “Well, if you hadn’t been knitting this morning, you would have more time.” I declared that I wasn’t knitting.

“OK”, he conceded, “but you were doing something with yarn.”

“I was winding yarn.”

“Well, from now on I will call it all Yarning.”

Yeah, that is what I was doing. I spend a lot of time yarning. I fondle the yarn; I reorganize my stash according to colour, texture, and gauge. I put different yarns together for future projects. While winding the yarn I go into a trance of considerations, floating combinations through my mind, considering the drape, the stitch pattern and the garment. Yarning is a favorite activity of mine. I like to just hang out with yarn period.

Below is a basket I started with yarns I am collecting for the yarns in 24/7. I was my most thrilled when I had to sort through my Koigu collection to make a colour selection for the “Elemental Pullover.” You can see it on the right of the basket. The brown and blue on the left are Classic Elite “Fresco” for the Redwork Cowl and Mitts on page 101.