I have already written about my love for winding yarn. It took all sorts of effort to restrain myself from winding all the hanks in my current resource stash into nice little cakes of yarn ready to be knit into all sorts of fabulousness. Winding it all would be kind of silly, I may not get through the whole pile and then I would have all this yarn sitting in a state of tension and not at rest, or whatever. Also, that would leave less to wind later (travesty), so I just wound what I needed for my next project, a pair of mittens.
I think it may be too much yarn, but we'll see. I was going to try and get more of Arwen (I really think we need to come up with a new name for the sweater. "A Cardigan for Arwen" is simply too long and "Arwen" doesn't quite do it justice...) done before starting on another project, but the rough yarn of Arwen was getting to me (my hands, really), so what better solution than knitting with some Koigu? And really, two projects at a time, that's actually pretty conservative for me...
Lovely colours. I have been reading your blog for a couple of weeks, so it's time to delurk. I'm a fellow archivist in stockholm, sweden!
Posted by: catrin | February 12, 2007 at 05:36 PM
I once rolled 13 balls of yarn (not skeins, mind you; these were wound balls that I rewound into yarn cakes) for other reason than the balls were looking a little disheveled from sitting in my stash. It is a compulsion.
Posted by: Rachel | February 12, 2007 at 06:02 PM
Oh - I love yarn cakes too!
Blue and white Anemoi mittens will be so pretty!
Posted by: Pat | February 12, 2007 at 07:29 PM
What beautiful colors! I'm looking forward to seeing the mittens.
I don't have a swift or ball-winder. I ball as I need, or I would go crazy.
Posted by: Brenda | February 12, 2007 at 07:37 PM
That is beautiful yarn. I love me some Koigu!
Posted by: tiennie | February 12, 2007 at 08:45 PM
i'm a winder too! and my kids love love love it :o)
the colors will be fabulous for mittens!
Posted by: amanda | February 13, 2007 at 12:11 AM
Koigu truly is knitting therapy!
Posted by: Mintyfresh | February 13, 2007 at 02:40 AM
Don't you just love watching the yarn spin around and the way that tail whips around at the end:) More wonderful that you have such great yarn to wind into those cute and cuddly cakes.
Posted by: Barb | February 13, 2007 at 05:23 AM
I'm so with you! There's nothing nicer than a pretty yarn cake (I just did some STR. ooh!), and nothing sadder than a deflated cake.
Posted by: lola | February 13, 2007 at 04:12 PM
I feel the same way about winding yarn. I just love to look at it in those pretty yarn cakes. . .
Posted by: Kirsten | February 13, 2007 at 11:26 PM
They will be such pretty, wintery Anemois. I definitely found that they took a lot less yarn than a thought they would.
Posted by: Christy / Not Hip | February 14, 2007 at 12:16 AM
Yarncakes! Yum! What's funny is I saw them and thought "Anemoi!" before I even checked the link--the yarn & the pattern much be fated to be together!
Posted by: Ashley | February 14, 2007 at 12:18 AM
yay winding! nothing is quite as rewarding. the blue and white are so clean together - very beachy (perfect for mittens!)
Posted by: stacey | February 20, 2007 at 02:52 PM