adrift

If you scroll to the bottom of this specials page (oops, it's gone already; I'll have to post a photo of my own soon), that gorgeous laceweight yarn called Fantastic Voygage?  It's leftover from my special order. Yeah, I keep doing this.  Ordering hand-dyed yarn.  And now I've gotten so spoiled that I request specific colors.  Custom-dyed yarn. Mmmmmmm.

I'm not sure what to make with this. I just wanted these colors together, which I'd seen on Danette's page before.  As I've mentioned on this blog before, I had a long-lasting and serious addiction to Star Trek Voyager.  One of the things I loved about the show were its colors: a deep crimson, mustard, silver, brilliant blue, a bit of purple.  For 2 years I've been looking for a colorway that has the colors of that show (I came close with some colinette ribbon yarn but I hated working with it).  This one I special ordered looked like the Voyager colors online, and I have to say the way the colors played out in the laceweight alpaca is gorgeous, but way too pastel and soft to really be the Voyager colorway I will one day find.  Nonetheless, the yarn is sumptuous and will be something great. 

Not like I need another project, but once the yarn arrived I had to go looking around for patterns. I considered this for the shoalwater shawl, but I think for that I really want something mohairy. Then I found this Gothic Leaf Stole.  That's my #1 contender right now.  But by the time I get to knitting this yarn who knows what I'll be up to.

I have about 8 projects going right now, with a good 6 I'll actually finish. The other 2 will likely get cut loose and set adrift on that sea of WIPs I imagine out there somewhere, all the well-intentioned ha-sweaters and single socks gently bobbing on the salty water.

Comments

[Suzanne]

Ohhhh...I love your colorway...and that you're inspired by STV. :) That yarn is definitely tempting!

[emily]

Go for the Gothic! Wow. That's beautiful. You have such fine taste in projects.

[Romona Murrell]

I read this and thought maybe you would be interested.
What to do with millions of obsolete library card catalog cards? The University of Iowa Libraries is turning many of them into art.

(I-Newswire) - As part of the celebration of its 150th anniversary this year, the UI Libraries will distribute old card catalog cards to people across Iowa and around the country and invite them to create a work of art o­n the card. The results will be displayed as part of a public art project over the next year.UI Libraries Assistant Conservator Kristin Baum, who oversees the art project, said about o­ne million cards will be sent in the coming months to school children, book artists, poets, writers and other artists. "Through the project we've named cARTalog, we hope to find as many creative uses as possible for the salvaged card catalog cards by reinventing them as mail art, artist books, collage, poetry and sculpture," says Baum. "We also hope to generate a sense of community among those who love the card catalog."Anyone interested in participating in the project can obtain cards by contacting Baum at 319-335-5503 or by email at kristin-baum@uiowa.edu.Once a mainstay of libraries, card catalogs have become extinct because of advances in technology. The information o­nce kept o­n a card for the library's holdings of books, periodicals and other volumes is now maintained o­n a searchable computer database so the paper cards have been destroyed and the massive wooden catalogs that held them sold. The o­ne million cards adopted by the cARTalog project represent the libraries' last cards, Baum said.Other events planned to mark the libraries' sesquicentennial during the 2005-06 academic year include a documentary video about the history of the UI Libraries; a film series at the Bijou Theater featuring movies about libraries and librarians; an exhibit o­n librarian culture that shows how librarians are portrayed in the media; and a public lecture featuring Dr. Mark Edmundson, author of the book "Why Read?" and a professor of English at the University of Virginia, who will discuss how libraries can advance the state of liberal arts education.An o­nline memory site for alumni, students, faculty and staff to leave their memories of the UI Libraries has also been established. It can be found at www.lib.uiowa.edu/history. STORY SOURCE: University of Iowa News Service, 300 Plaza Centre o­ne, Suite 371, Iowa City, Iowa 52242-2500.MEDIA CONTACT: Tom Snee, 319-384-0010, tom-snee@uiowa.edu.

[Shanti]

I followed that link even though you'd crossed it out - and spent a whole lot of money. What beautiful colors she has!