Miriam here. Over the weekend, we went to the Estes Park Wool Festival. It was so much fun. Yes, it was muddy but the llamas, alpacas, goats and sheep were cute and fun to talk to. While we were there I bought some wonderful hand spun and dyed yarns from a seller from Texas. She had some of the most beautiful color combinations. I'm a sucker for variegated yarn. Marty insisted that I buy at least two hanks of yarn. I suggested that he pick out one color he liked and I would pick one color I like. Then, he changed the rules, he picked out one hank and I picked out two. I chose my yarn quickly before Marty added more yarn to buy. Marty asked me if the hank he picked out would make a hat and I said it would.
So on Tuesday night I decided I am going to start on a new knit hat for Marty. I was looking for a hat pattern on Knitting Pattern Central. As I'm looking at patterns, I think to myself that I can not choose a pattern if I don't know the gauge(# of stitches/ inch) for the yarn. Handspun yarns don't come with gauge suggestions.
It's about 9:30 PM and I decide I need to wind the hank into skeins so that I can gauge the yarn. This should be a simple process. It should only take about 5 - 10 minutes. I grab the hank and unwind it so that it looks like a large circle of yarn. While holding the yarn open in both hands, I announce to Marty I could really use a yarn swift to hold the yarn open while I wind the yarn on my yarn ball winder. BUT, I think I can wind the yarn without tangling it. I'll just lay it neatly on the floor and it will be OK.
Well....It wasn't so OK. I believe it took about 2 seconds into the winding to have the largest knot I have ever seen. I now find the other end of the yarn and start to untangle it. At about 10:30, Marty says let's go to bed. I suggest he go without me. I tell him I'll be back shortly. I really did think there would be one magic knot I would undo and the whole thing would be fixed.
Apparently, it took me until 1:45 AM to undo the knot. In that time period Marty went to bed and got up to check on me, kindly suggested I finish the next day and returned to bed. He was very supportive; despite the fact that I was driving him crazy by starting a new project so close to bedtime and not letting it go.
While I was untangling and winding I had many random thoughts (as I normally do) but one thought stood out in my mind: 'It's been a long time since I've been up this late. Although I'm tired, I'm still awake enough to concentrate on the task at hand. Hey, maybe I'll call this Mommy Training. I will be able to get up and take care of our children.'
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Knowing that you have seen you fair share of knots, that had to be the UBER-KNOT of the century!
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