Day 5: Yarn and more yarn

[ladythmpr]

It was a day yesterday with kid issues and the continuation of a heat wave that isn't supposed to break until Sunday, UGH. It was very late afternoon when I took some of my recently-acquired, secondhand yarn stash outside so I could start winding it into skeins suitable for washing; washing secondhand yarn is important so that you don't introduce pests or allergens into your stash!

I started with a large, pretty, baby-pastel variegated (probably acrylic) yarn that was a mess:



[ID: A tangled mess of baby-pastel variegated yarn. End ID]

I thought I had untangled the yarn enough to start the washing skein, but after only a few winds, part of the middle pulled out to make an even bigger mess, so I had to start a ball in order to tame the mess. I think I have finally untangled all the mess, but I still have the rest of that yarn to ball and then skein. That all took more than an hour, but I was listening to good music and I find untangling string relaxing.



[ID: Baby-pastel yarn being tamed into a small ball, with most of the skein to still wind. End ID]

And to round out the evening, I knitted 7 more rows on the current baby hat:



[ID: 18 rows of red-ish yarn knitted on a purple 31-peg round loom. End ID]