Picture Pages

I promised I would post pictures of my new yarn, and while I was looking at the yarn this morning, I realized I hadn't posted a picture of some less new yarn. To the left is a skein of Mountain Colors' Bearfoot of indeterminate colour I got in late February or perhaps early March. Below, of more recent acquisition (thanks, Stacey!) is the Shaefer Anne I got last weekend, and the bottle of yummy Soak wool wash. Notice the strange contrast between the pictures in the last post and these pictures. It is snowing in Virginia on April freaking Seventh. Hard, too. I tried taking some pictures, but snow just doesn't photograph well while falling. You'll have to be satisfied with the pictures of show sticking in the grass. Now that we've got the yarn porn all sorted, I think it's time for some random tangents.

While searching for an appropriate title for a image dump, this one sprang to mind, with its accompanying theme song. It has been about twenty years (oh man, I'm old) since I watched that show, but I still remember the theme song and could sing it right now if asked, though that is admittedly unlikely. Does anyone else remember watching Picture Pages on Nickelodeon (or was it PBS?) with Bill Cosby? When I was a kid, I watched that show every day. It came on right after something else I always watched, but I'm not sure exactly what the program was, something like Smurfs or Transformers (possibly Captain Kangaroo) no doubt. It had a book and special pen that went along with it, and Bill would tell you what pages to turn to, and then you got to do the little activities in the book along with Bill. (Didn't the pen have a name, too?) I did not have the book. I watched the show anyway. Once, I was over at my best friend Christine's house to play and the show came on just like it always did and I settled in to watch it as usual. But Christine hops up and runs into the other room and comes back with The Book. I was so, so jealous. It didn't help at all that she refused to share. It turned out that watching the show with no book wasn't bad as long as you're not sitting with someone who has the book and refuses to share.

Fortunately, I've never run into a similar circumstance in the "Land of Knitting" as The Harlot calls it. People are always willing to help out with a relevant(ish) story, yarn/pattern/stitch suggestion, or some knitterly help and/or advice. No one seems to want to keep the book all to themselves. We're a sharing kind of bunch. This is a good thing most of the time. Of course, there's the fact that if you get four knitters around a problem UFO, you have five opinions about how to fix the mistake, but they're five earnest opinions. We only want to assimilate help you.