Just something about yarns

Dear readers, some net forums make us knitters wonder, what is luxury yarn and what is ordinary yarn. Pure wool (if I buy it from a store) and wool blend are "ordinary" yarns in my eyes. In this context wool blend means something like 75 % wool, 25 % polyamide. That kind of yarn is OK for...let's say mittens and scarves and sweaters.
If the yarn has acrylic in it, the yarn is definitely ordinary yarn. I don't use such yarn to knit anything for myself. My skin becomes very itchy and bleeds, if I wear something made of acrylic. Or if I don't become itchy, it makes me feel very hot. So acrylic yarn is very, very ordinary yarn in my world.
There are times when 100 % wool yarn is ordinary yarn. But if I have made the said 100 % wool yarn myself from roven, that is luxury yarn for me, because the roven has gone through my wheel and I've taken care of spinning myself. That kind of yarn needs special home and special owner, who is knitworthy, as they say.
When the yarn I have bought from a store has silk in it, that yarn is luxury yarn. That means I may have difficulties to decide the future of such a yarn. The same is true if I get yarn someone has hand - dyed. I may wait for the right time and the right person to dare to knit such yarn.
If the yarn has been made in Peru and has merino wool in it, it is definitely luxury yarn in my eyes. I may use it to knit some squares for a blanket of some little prince or princess. Not actual prince or princess, of course. The actual princes and princesses' parents, like in Great Britain, would not accept gifts from someone like me they've never met.
Let's knit, shall we?

About printing and knitting

Dear readers, here I sit again as usual. Some of you may know I lost a friend in summer 2015. I am glad her funeral was during a summer too. She passed away in June and we said the final farewell in July. But I know death doesn't always come in summer. It may come any time, including winter. And that's what I have been pondering recently.
I have friends, who are old. One of them may be the next one to go. I want to be ready, when the time comes. That is why I have pondered here and there and everywhere about knitting a funeral sweater for myself.
I am Light Spring, so black is not on my list, but cocoa brown is. It is one of my neutrals. I think cocoa brown is neutral enough to wear during a funeral. I have the yarn. I am only missing the pattern.
How on earth? Well, I haven't chosen the pattern yet.
How can that be?
I haven't found the right pattern yet. I am still searching. I hope this one pattern I have already re - written and printed for myself, could be the one. I don't know, if it really is the one. The pattern I tried before this didn't fit my plans. I hope this one does.
But before I can knit the actual funeral sweater of the actual yarn I have, I need to make a test version. The meaning of the test version is to find out if this pattern is the one and the kind of that fits. I sure hope this is the one, even the increases and decreases make it swallow a lot of time and yarn. But knitting the test version is the only way to find out, if this pattern is the one I can wear during a funeral.
Let's knit, shall we?

A yarn surprise

Dear readers,here I sit again. You can't imagine, what Postman Pat brought me! Exactly this.

The scale said 75 grams. I don't know what I am going to knit from this, but I am sure this will find a good new home, once the time is right.
Let's knit, shall we?

WOOOOOOHOOO! I DID IT!

Dear readers, I know you don't believe a word, but it's true. I have knitted more than 6.6 lbs yarn during this year! Excel tells me the truth, and that's how I found out about that. My current WIP is a secret. Actually all my knitting is quite secret. Why? Well, if I declare my project to the whole world, a stitch will drop or something else equally bad will happen, but if I stay silent, everything goes fine. As simple as that. Let's knit, shall we?

Yarn

Dear readers,I thought I will show you some yarn.

Let's knit, shall we?