Saturday, August 9, 2008

Yarn Won and Lost... 8.10.08


A not so stretched tale of yarn and boys....
This tale starts out like many others, happy and looking up but aaah, there is evil ahead, and let you be forewarned, it ends up becoming a twisted knotted bed of lies and intrigue.
There once was a happy crocheting mommy who was creating an afghan for the family couch during her two son's soccer games. The younger son seeing the blanket being made asked (as was his usual - being the younger, more demanding) when are you going to make ME a blanket???? So after a time they went to the large craft store where after 45 minutes the son could not make up his mind on a color ("whatever color YOU are happy with mom sigh..."). A search through mom's Harmony stitch dictionary and he becomes inspired for his mom to make him a blue tunisian stitched blanket with white pinwheels throughout so he then could have a dragon stitched in red over that. Back to the Local Yarn Store for supplies and home to have them wound on the wool winder. Everybody happy? Good the end for those of you who like happy endings.
The following Saturday the two happy sons wake up before their parents and have cereal, watch some t.v. and play with the family pets. That's the story they are sticking with. What their mom found was numerous balls of yarn thrown around like basketballs, now some unwound, tangled, other yarns mixed in and two boys pointing the finger at each other saying "he did it!" So that is the whole frayed tale. I may use the yarn for water bottle carriers, I really want to make one. hmmmmm.

3 comments:

DragonMommie said...

oooooooh, the HORROR! Brrrr can I open my eyes yet? What a story! I'd hold that blanket over their heads for awhile. Glad to see you writing. Looking forward to seeing more.

Oh, for putting links into a post all you have to do is copy the address to your MAIN HOME page of the blog, then paste it into the link tool (picture of a whole chain link) at the top of the box you write your posts in. Chances are, you will have the same icon here.

DragonMommie said...

Oh, forgot to say that HEY... I must have a Blogger blog, too, because I'm already Dragonmommie here!

Ria said...

Good job setting up your blog!

Hate to say boys will be boys, but.... my godsons (twins) played out a similar scenario and I made them each a hat, scarf and mittens with the futzed up yarn. it was pink and lavender ( for my daughter) and their mom made them wear them all winter. So no more messing with Aunt Rie's yarn!


Ria (tonyfan20 on ravelry)