It’s Furious Balancing

Yes, doxy. Look it up. ¹

It’s okay; I’ll wait for you to come back.

More genteel than whore or slut, more pithy than streetwalker, and more accurate than odalisque.² I can’t be a yarn harlot because there’s only one Yarn Harlot.³

Floozy looks like a good word to use and makes me sound less like a longshoreman.⁴ Floozy has a nice long vowel sound, too. Hmmmm….. I’ll stick with doxy. Short, sweet and to the point.

Why a Yarn Doxy? Well, mainly because I find it difficult, nay, well-nigh impossible to stick with one knitting project at a time. While plugging away at my Ravenclaw Raglan, which is barely out of the starting gates, I’m already dreaming about the Mrs. Darcy Cardigan⁵ and looking at yarn pr0n online in an attempt to find a yarn substitute — and choose a color.

The Spinnerin Alpine yarn she used is discontinued, so I know I will need to use something else. Lamb’s Pride Worsted was suggested, but it sheds. Excessively. I have enough things that shed in my house (meow!) and don’t need to add another. The Ravenclaw Raglan is made with Cascade 220, which has marvelous stitch definition, is reasonably priced, and comes in scads of colors, but part of me is saying to do this in something English-y and tweed-y and Rowan-y.

/sigh

Help is on the way. Brainy Lady did an excellent review of The Knitter’s Book of Yarn, and that should be with me by the end of next week. I’m hopeful that it will help me narrow down some possible yarn substitutions.

Or not. Can you say “Can of worms?”

Oh, and here’s a picture of the Ravenclaw Raglan, the current Work In Progress. I can only knit one thing at a time, right?

* * * * *

1. If you’re really too lazy to do it yourself, I’ll give you a link. [↩]
2. Do you know you can’t look up vulgar words on visualthesaurus.com? How am I going to come up with synonyms if I can’t look up the sordid words in the original? [↩]
3. I don’t know if I ever posted the anecdote about the cab driver who asked me once if I knew who the Yarn Harlot was. This was shortly after her appearance in Ann Arbor, and his wife was an avid reader of knitting blogs. I love chatting with cab drivers and somehow we were talking about knitting or blogs, or something, and he asked me if I knew of the Yarn Harlot. I do believe my jaw dropped. [↩]
4. My brain working the way it does first spat out stevedore. I had to look up stevedore to find the synonym longshoreman. More coffee is needed here, obviously. [↩]
5. This is just so “me” I want to jump up and down and go Squueeeeeeeeeee! I am exercising admirable self-restraint. [↩]

This entry was posted on Sunday, November 4th, 2007 at 9:40 am and is filed under Knitting. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.