YOP: Week 39

     In anticipation of the Boo Knits MKAL starting on October 1st I got out my Dye For Yarn so I could wind it with my new yarn winder.  I quickly found that the winder I chose is a piece of crap.  The yarn guide doesn't stay in place and drops while winding which feeds the yarn directly into the open gears.  The spindle base also isn't large enough to accommodate 100 gram skeins.  It is nice and quiet and it didn't roll backward when I had to stop often because the yarn wasn't cooperating with me either.  The hank was extra twisted and crinkly in one spot so it kept getting stuck on itself and needed to be teased apart.  Overall it was a very negative winding experience.  I just went back to Amazon to read the reviews on the winder to see if it was just my winder.  Nope, each review said the same thing.  I'm not sure why I didn't think to read the reviews before I ordered this one, I usually do.  I have a different winder picked out and will start the process of returning this one in the coming week.  I'm a little sad, I really liked the color of this one, but having a functional one is more important that having a pretty one, I suppose.  

    Alright onto more fun news.  I finished Ronon's hat.  

The pooling is an added bonus and he's very happy with it.  I washed each half separately.  I use a large stainless steel bowl when I wash so I put just the orange side in first and clipped the rest of the hat to the bowl, then switched sides.  It worked really well and I didn't end up with any color re-deposit from the bleeding.  

I worked on my Always Be Brave.  I weighed my skeins and decided to do one more repeat of chart 1 before doing the transition repeat.  I've now finished that and am onto chart 2.  We'll see if I can get 13 repeats of chart 2 out of this yarn.  I probably should have played it safe and stuck to 12 repeats of each chart....  oh well time will tell.

Ronon's party went well, we kept it small  He liked his John Deer tractor/Spongebob cake and the homemade pizza.  Both he and Liara helped with assembling a couple of the pizzas.

    I was actually into season 4 of Supernatural last week.  Netflix just tells me which episode I'm on, not season; I was further ahead than I realized.  So I'm now just into season 6.  If I remember correctly when I stopped watching many years ago I stopped at the end of season 6.  I think that may have been all that was available at the time.  I've been enjoying all the pop culture references and the Apocalypse was happening back in season 5.  There were a lot of similarities with the Covid pandemic.  It almost seemed prophetic.  Anyway back to the grind.  I have a ton of homework I should be doing for the communication class.  I'm really not enjoying it.  It isn't at all what I was expecting and the work we need to do takes me way outside my comfort zone.  It's quite a lot of analyzing feelings and a bunch of touchy feely crap that someone like me, who was raised in the 80s and 90s, finds completely foreign.  I just need to get through it and then I'll be done with it forever.  Until later, happy crafting.

-Q