On yarns and projects and something funny
India Night, originally uploaded by fanelendil.
India Night: hand painted by Charles and now all wound into a ball....that's a lot of yarn.
It was my first time winding a centre-pull ball from a hank...I used the instruction from Island Girl using the core of a toilet paper roll. Worked fabulously...until the ball got so big. I mean, it was 200+ yards (about 180+ metres) which you just don't get here.
I definitely am going to make a pair of Kolenya out of this...but there sure will be lots of yarn left...I'll have to see what I'd do with it. Maybe a matching scarflette.
I've got so many projects lined up right now...not to mention all the UFOs. I'm planning on frogging and restarting two of my projects that have been on the needles for months now. Then I've promised Frank I'd knit him a set of hat-scarf-gloves/Kolenya....so those would have priority. Then I still want to cast on for my turtle neck.
Oh well, we'll see what happens.
Here's something I got off a blog I read. It's one of those chain-mail thingee, but it's just so snortingly funny that I have to share it here:
In Pharmacology, all drugs have two names, a trade name and generic name.
For example, the trade name of Tylenol also has a generic name of
Acetaminophen. Aleve is also called Naproxen. Amoxil is also call
Amoxicillin and Advil is also called Ibuprofen.
The FDA has been looking for a generic name for Viagra. After careful
consideration by a team of government experts, it recently announced that it
has settled on the generic name of Mycoxafloppin. Also considered were
Mycoxafailin, Mydixadrupin, Mydixarizin, Dixafix, and of course, Ibepokin.
Pfizer Corp. announced today that Viagra will soon be available in liquid
form, and will be marketed by Pepsi Cola as a power beverage suitable for
use as a mixer. It will now be possible for a man to literally pour himself
a stiff one. Obviously we can no longer call this a soft drink, and it gives
new meaning to the names of "cocktails", "highballs" and just a good
old-fashioned "stiff drink". Pepsi will market the new concoction by the
name of: MOUNT & DO.
Thought for the day: There is more money being spent on breast implants
and Viagra today than on Alzheimer's research. This means that by 2040,
there should be a large elderly population with perky boobs and huge
erections and absolutely no recollection of what to do with them.
If you don't send this to five old friends right away there will be five
fewer people laughing in the world.